Surreal. It’s one of those words like insane or awesome that’s taken a beating from aggressive misuse. I’ve heard the term applied to both a bus driver wearing a funny hat and the sight of the second ...

At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA, there is an artwork on display, a medium-sized painting of a pipe on a cream-colored background, underneath which is written in plain letters: “Ceci ...

Inspired by Sigmund Freud’s book The Interpretation of Dreams, the Surrealists were acutely aware that dreams provide access to our unconscious desires and fears. They even set up an office in Paris ...