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fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

Steve DiBenedetto's Cosmic Sense of the Absurd

Steve DiBenedetto's paintings serve as a functional structure to help viewers navigate collective trauma.
Science
fromenglish.elpais.com
5 days ago

From Cajal to Dali and Lorca: The drawings that revealed the substance of the human mind and inspired Surrealism

Santiago Ramon y Cajal discovered the structure of the nervous system and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906, influencing both science and art.
Film
fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Bunuel and Many More

Hollywood faces a crisis with declining interest in films, prompting a search for re-enchantment through experimental cinema.
Fashion & style
fromianVisits
2 weeks ago

Schiaparelli at the V&A: the designer you've probably not heard of

Elsa Schiaparelli, a pioneering fashion designer, is celebrated for her innovative designs and influence in the fashion world, particularly between the two world wars.
History
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
2 weeks ago

Dali's largest work acquired by Dali Museum in Florida

A unique assemblage of Salvador Dali's theatrical set for a 1939 ballet has been acquired by the Dali Museum, including the largest work by the artist.
#surrealism
Film
from48 hills
1 week ago

Screen Grabs: Aliens, witches, mermaids, and other swell company - 48 hills

Love can take unconventional forms, as seen in films featuring relationships with aliens, witches, and other offbeat characters.
fromHyperallergic
5 days ago

Marcel Duchamp Was the Messenger of History

Duchamp's 'Fountain' is the message that brings us the news. No longer was art judged by skill, craftsmanship, even beauty - it could be anything an artist called art.
Arts
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Why Bigfoot Believers Don't Change Their Minds

Belief perseverance causes individuals to maintain beliefs despite contradictory evidence, influenced by identity, experience, and community.
fromArtforum
3 weeks ago

Struggle Bus

The influx of art-world characters had come and gone, albeit in reduced numbers due to the winter storms out east, and they had done their yearly duty of complaining to me about the traffic.
Los Angeles
Film
fromVulture
2 weeks ago

What the Heck Is Going On in the Back Room in Backrooms?

A24's horror film Backrooms features a furniture-store employee discovering endless, eerie back rooms filled with unsettling sights.
fromThe Nation
2 weeks ago

In "Bomarzo," the Renaissance Man is a Monster

"One must put himself in the period... crime had a certain familiarity from its repetition through time.... That's what they were like, unscrupulous. So was I. And since we are speaking about it, so was the Renaissance."
History
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

The Unbearable Strangeness of Being

Cinga Samson's paintings evoke a haunting, incomprehensible world reflecting historical scars and spiritual alertness through unsettling imagery.
#salvador-daliacute
Beer
fromFuncheap
1 month ago

Burton Fest: Inspired by the Mind of Tim Burton (Easy Bay)

Burton Fest celebrates Tim Burton's aesthetic with themed experiences, gothic cocktails, and whimsical attractions across multiple immersive zones.
fromArtnet News
1 week ago

How Elsa Schiaparelli Turned Surrealism Into High Fashion | Artnet News

Schiaparelli's timeless designs spun glamor out of the avant-garde, showcasing a unique blend of high fashion and artistic expression that continues to inspire.
Arts
France news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Did you solve it? You won't believe these optical illusions!

Olivier Redon creates optical illusions using perspective manipulation, inverted geometry, and ambiguous visual interpretation to deceive perception.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Schiaparelli review it's cocktail o'clock with fashion's surreal goddess who out-lobstered Dali and turned a polar bear pink

Naked mermaids and prancing horses, silk carrots and unshelled peanuts, gilded elephant trunks, drums and masks are just a few of the buttons. The V&A's lavish spring show is a weird and wonderful tumble down the rabbit hole that is Schiaparelli, fashion's house of surrealism.
Arts
fromInsideHook
1 month ago

Where Have All the Good Memes Gone?

The lyrics have a rather annoying quality to them, similar to the way that other songs like "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen, "Fireflies" by Owl City or even "Friday" by Rebecca Black did in their time - songs that gained rapid popularity and, just as quickly, sparked rapid backlash from many due to overexposure to them.
Humor
Film
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Six Bizarre Movies That Are Actually Fun to Watch

Atlantic writers recommend bizarre films that balance weirdness with entertainment value, including Iron Sky about Nazis on the moon and Jupiter Ascending.
Books
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Flat Earth theory, talking raccoons and ghosts on strike: The fascinating world of the weird

Dan Schreiber documents global fringe beliefs and bizarre claims, revealing human eccentricity, committed conviction, and the odd humor and strangeness of these ideas.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Estonia exports a modernist, Glasgow gets poetic and Leonora Carrington goes wild the week in art

Estonia's modernist painter Konrad Magi is featured in an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery from March to July.
Environment
fromMail Online
2 months ago

Beach invaded by bizarre Stranger Things-looking one-footed creatures

Stormy easterly winds scoured Studland Bay seabed and deposited large numbers of mostly dead otter shell clams on the shore, many unlikely to survive.
Graphic design
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Artist Turns Cyberpunk Skylines Into Soft PoetryNeon Streets, Snowfall And Silence In A Parallel Universe

A wide variety of contemporary visual art and design projects spanning surreal mash-ups, comics, illustration, generative art, photography, design, and cultural commentary.
fromOpen Culture
1 month ago

An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published

At the end of the day [it's] similar to the Rorschach inkblot test. You see what you want to see. You might think it's speaking to you, but it's just your imagination.
Books
Science
fromMail Online
2 months ago

New theory hints mysterious forces once haunted the Bermuda Triangle

Methane gas releases from the seafloor may have temporarily reduced water density and disrupted engines, explaining past Bermuda Triangle disappearances without supernatural causes.
Design
fromBored Panda
2 months ago

24 Signs That Turned Out To Be So Hilariously Absurd, People Had To Share Them

Humorously odd signs around the world provide lighthearted relief while effective sign design considers audience, message, environment, function, fabrication, and installation.
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

The Queer, Surrealist Lovers Who Defied the German Occupation

Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore were visionary gender non-conforming photographers whose collaborative avant-garde work remains radically innovative, though they remained largely unknown during their lifetimes.
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Henry Darger's Secret World Comes to the Stage | Artnet News

Henry Darger, a reclusive Chicago janitor and outsider artist, has gained significant posthumous recognition through a new theatrical production adapting his life and writings for the stage.
Books
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

The lost lessons of Jorge Luis Borges: His English and American literature classes

Recovered 1966 lectures by Jorge Luis Borges were published, revealing lost oral work and previously uncollected material through meticulous editorial recovery.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Soon I will die. And I will go with a great orgasm': the last rites of Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a multifaceted, countercultural artist who repeatedly reinvents himself across film, theatre, comics, psychotherapy, tarot, and visual art.
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Spain's Cosmic Mother of Modernism

MADRID - The most famous portrait of Maruja Mallo depicts the artist covered from head to toe in seaweed. She is crowned and draped with long, rope-like strands of kelp, her arms raised triumphantly like an all-powerful marine goddess. This unconventional photograph, snapped in 1945 by the poet Pablo Neruda on a Chilean beach, was no doubt carefully orchestrated by the Spanish artist, who viewed herself as an extension of her unique work, where female energy is a conduit for natural and even cosmic forces.
Arts
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

This Artist Layers Traditional Ink With Digital Glows To Quest Unconscious Realms Of Surreal Meaning

A wide-ranging showcase of contemporary visual art, illustration, street art, photography, cosplay, and social projects celebrating creativity and cultural reinterpretation.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

Raul J. Mendez's paranormal bureaucracy * Oregon ArtsWatch

Common Distortion Fields & Everyday Summonings takes form as a solo show of work by Raul J. Mendez at PPSTMM, a gallery tucked away on the second floor of a building off MLK in North Portland. Mendez's work depicts phantasms and figures set against familiar terrains, probing curiosities about the 21st-century American condition. Through his use of an eerie primary color palette, graphite, and other media, Mendez's works explore what happens when operating on sensory instincts and curiosities that lean in an otherworldly direction toward psychic dimensions.
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

Dark Humor Decals For Everyday Absurdity: Amazing Acrylic Paintings by Javier Mayoral

Handcrafted Artful Embroideries of Everyday Products by Alicja Kozowska Well of Eternity: Stunning Sci-Fi Concept Artworks of Sung Choi Traveller's Joy The Key To The Countryside Beautiful Shell Adverts From The Mid-1950s These Animal Illustrations Accurately Express Our Monday Blues And Friday Feels Dark, Surreal And Moody Photo Works By Simon Kerola Artist Replaces Jurassic Park Dinosaurs With Those From The Show Dinosaurs "Deathmask Divine": The Superb Dark Paintings of Bahrull Marta
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Arts
from48 hills
2 months ago

His suburban idylls teem with the 'uncanny magic of the exceptionally unexceptional' - 48 hills

Jonathan Crow’s American Realist paintings prioritize mood, composition, and color to evoke intuitive, music-like emotional responses that resist simple verbal definition.
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