This all makes “Max Ernst: Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism,” the show that opened yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago, an extraordinary event.

Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art is now the world's foremost museum of modern and contemporary art. To this end the Museum is committed to collecting, ...

Art teacher Jacqueline Hahn will continue her lecture series on legendary artists’ lives and artistic movements with a discussion about Max Ernst, pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism ...

Since Max Ernst organized his first Dada exhibition in his native Cologne, 27 years had passed. That had been quite a show. The entrance had been through a public lavatory, and visitors were given ...

“Max Ernst: A Retrospective,” recently opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, does not always transcend the problems of the style. The show is very large, and Ernst’s work is scattered.

Ernst was an innovative artist who mined his unconscious for dreamlike imagery that mocked social conventions. His vision of the modern world as irrational became the basis of his art. Ernst's humour ...

Italian contemporary artist Giovanni Guida’s God fights the Coronavirus (And you'll be cured of all diseases.. and I'll take care of you) (2020), a grattage and frottage on graphia, is inspired ...

A group of 11 rare and darkly fantastical paintings incorporating birds by Max Ernst are to go on show at Sotheby’s in London–although none are for sale.