Homing in on the middle-to-late career of the artist most closely associated with Surrealism is a first — and this exhibit will not travel anywhere, so S.F. is in for a treat.
A woman sits in shadows, wrapped in a great checkered cowl. Behind her, golden light pours from a contraption of cogs, bells, tubes, and…
Draw a head on the top section of a piece of paper. Then fold it over so that your neighbor can’t see what you’ve…
As a onetime Trotskyist and confederate of Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Anaïs Nin, and André Breton, filmmaker Maya Deren loathed Tinseltown. Until her sudden…
Less well known than some of the Beat poets, Philip Lamantia nevertheless embodied the spirit of his times so thoroughly that his life story…
Notes toward a different kind of Fringe
Surrealism is associated by most people with a group of eccentric, self-promoting male artists from the 1930s on: Dali, Andre Breton, et al. But…
