Ara H. Merjian

These eight books make the history, reach, and lasting impact of Surrealism—a movement celebrating its 100th anniversary this year—abundantly clear.

The artist's blurred and turbulent surfaces evoke the sociopolitical turmoil they depict.

The classic avant-garde movement's melding of psychic and social revolution still resonates today.

An art historian and an expert on internet culture discuss media, technology, and political collage.

The international influence of Italian neorealism changed postwar cinema—and remains a paradoxical touchstone for many filmmakers today.

Generally considered a conceptual artist, León Ferrari (1920–2013) might just as aptly be described as an activist. His collages and assemblages eschew allusive subtlety for unambiguously…

Venezuela-born, Berlin-based artist Arturo Herrera breathes life into well-worn practices of modernist collage, exploring the tensions between exactitude and spontaneity, placement and displacement.

In the years leading up to world War I, German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner developed a proto-Expressionist painting style that combined a vibrant palette and lurching brushwork and exemplified the…

From its earliest days, Dada — often seen as a quintessentially European avant-garde movement — had a richly creative outpost in New York.

This small but stirring exhibition was titled "George Tooker: Contemplative Gaze," begging the question, to whom does that gaze belong?