surrealism
How Dadaism Set the Ball Rolling for Today's Alternative Art, Music and Comedy
A quick chat with Alexei Sayle about the art movement's enduring effect on culture.
A Japanese Photographer Examines Identity Stereotypes
Eighteen-year-old Izumi Miyazaki cites a number of surrealists as her inspiration in her thoughtful, wry, and precise work on identity stereotypes, setting cultural clichés alongside grotesque or awkward elements.
These Doctored Vintage Photos Will Make You Wonder if All Your Childhood Memories Are Lies
Photographer Weronika Gęsicka's work focuses on the deceptive way what we think we remember is often some melding of fact and fiction.
How Snapchat Desensitised Us to the Surreal
Excessive porn has desensitised us to graphic sex, and the 24-hour news cycles has numbed us to graphic trauma. But has internet culture, from face swaps to Pepe the Frog, made surrealism normal?
A Few Pieces of 'Toilet Paper'
Take a sneak peek at the upcoming issue of twisted, vibrant, and beautiful biannual 'Toilet Paper' magazine.
It's Really Surreal How Salvador Dalí Was a Fascist Who Hit Women
In his lifelong quest for fame and fortune, the surrealist painter beloved by 19-year-olds "trampled" female admirers and supported the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.
The Simpsons Marijuana Novel Is the Strangest, Most Wonderful Thing on Twitter
Read an excerpt about the Simpsons obsessively smoking weed, Bart getting sent to Iraq, Lisa and Maggie hitting a salvia blunt, and Marge falling into despair.
Jay Z and Beyoncé Released a Surrealist Deconstruction of American Experience
It's an art experiment created by the Carter-Knowles enclave to promote their upcoming summer tour but also to explore the deeper dimensions of the American psyche, and also to feature Jake Gyllenhaal.
Candy-coated
CM3 (as he likes to be called, which is kind of dumb) is one of the top “weirdos” in the “bizarro” fiction “world.”