Art in America

Art in America, the world’s premier art magazine, delivers in-depth coverage of the global contemporary art scene. Published 11 times per year, every issue contains profiles on respected and rising talents, critical essays and reviews of current exhibitions around the world, written by today’s leading artists, curators and historians.

Art in America

Surreality Reigns

CONTRIBUTORS

Departments

Jacky Connolly • Recording scenes from video games, an artist and filmmaker evokes the dissociation and despair of our era.

Cecilia Alemani • The curator of the Venice Biennale discusses notable female artists and aging, along with related interests.

Cross Contamination • A conversation on pollution and bioremediation in the lab and in the gallery.

Raymond Saunders • Beauty in Darkness, 1993–99

Grave Concerns • An art-world outsider wonders how to make her great-grandfather even greater in the eyes of Surrealist connoisseurs.

The Asphalt Avant-Garde • A road trip leads to seeing the US highway system as the country’s most spectacular postwar work of art.

Thames & Hudson • new books for spring

Restitution’s First Wave • A new book details how the repatriation debates got their start in postcolonial Africa.

Books in Brief

SURREALISM & POLITICS • The classic avant-garde movement’s melding of psychic and social revolution still resonates today.

WHAT WAS SURREALISM? • A global survey of Surrealist art attempts to revise the historiographic picture of the movement.

NEW IMPRESSIONS OF THE HUMAN • Raymond Roussel and Surrealism in the Anthropocene.

x= hare • Meret Oppenheim’s quasi-functional Surrealist objects violate quotidian logics in uncanny ways.

SURREAL THINGS • A group of Los Angeles–based painters is reanimating Surrealist tropes for the twenty-first century.

LAMBASTING REALITY • How the legacies of Négritude and Surrealism influence today’s Black experimental filmmakers.

WORD PROCESSING • The Surrealist practice of automatic writing finds a troubling analogue in a new wave of sophisticated AI text generators.

Sophie Taeuber-Arp • Museum of Modern Art, New York

“Ceramics in the Expanded Field” • MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts

Shannon Ebner • Kaufmann Repetto, New York

Baseera Khan • Brooklyn Museum, New York

Rochelle Feinstein • Bridget Donahue and Candice Madey, New York

Ashley Bickerton • Lehmann Maupin and O’Flaherty’s, New York

Philip Smith • Primary, Miami

Theodora Allen • Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

“Witch Hunt” • Hammer Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

“Congress” • Norval Foundation, Cape Town

Hands On • A.i.A. Hangs with the People Who Handle the Art