Exhibitions
INTERNATIONAL SUREALISM FROM TATE: FIFTY YEARS OF DREAMS
Frist Art Museum / 919 Broadway May 22 - August 30th
Eileen Agar, Louise Bourgeois, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning, Kati Horna, Malangatana Ngwenya, Shiihara Osamu, Lionel Wendt
International Surealism from Tate: Fifty Years of Dreams investigates the global appeal of surrealism and how it has widely influenced culture and society over the last century.
Drawn from the Tate collection, UK, the exhibition of approximately 125 works focuses on the long trajectory and broad reach of surrealism as a state of mind through a captivating selection of film, paintings, photographs, sculpture, and other art objects, as well as publications and archival material. “One of the great attractions of surrealism was its internationalism,” writes Matthew Gale, exhibition curator and former Tate senior curator at large. “In an era of violent nationalism, the recognition of a global association of like-minded creators was a lifeline, at different times connecting artists and writers in New York and Santiago de Chile, Paris and Prague, Mexico City, and Tokyo.”
International Surrealism from Tate: Fifty Years of Dreams is presented just over a century after the first exhibition of surrealism, in Paris in November 1925, following the publication of André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto and Louis Aragon’s A Wave of Dreams a year earlier.
image: Joan Miró. Women and Bird in the Moonlight, 1949. Tate Modern. © Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 2025.
