Herald St now represents Amedeo Polazzo
29 July 2026 • Mark Westall
Polazzo creates works on canvas, murals using the fresco secco technique, and functional, hand-painted lamp sculptures
Tag: Surrealism
Surrealism aims to revolutionise the human experience. It balances a rational vision of life with one that asserts the power of the unconscious and dreams. The movement’s artists find magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional.
Royal Academy to explore Peggy Guggenheim’s London gallery in major new exhibition
28 July 2026 • Mark Westall
The Royal Academy revisits Peggy Guggenheim’s groundbreaking London gallery with a major exhibition of more than 80 works.
Gagosian to explore René Magritte’s enduring influence on contemporary art this Frieze Week
23 July 2026 • Mark Westall
Gagosian will present a major exhibition examining the lasting influence of René Magritte
There was only one Frida Kahlo
26 June 2026 • Lee Sharrock
Frida Kahlo’s paintings remain extraordinary, but does Tate Modern devote too much space to the icon that emerged after her death?
‘Invasive Species’: Danielle Mezh curates multisensory exhibition featuring 15 Women Artists at Hypha Studios
9 June 2026 • Lee Sharrock
Invasive Species at Hypha Studios brings together fifteen women artists exploring memory, sensory experience, psychological dissonance and transformation
Eyes Wide Open: The Surreal Worlds of Olga Puzikova
15 May 2026 • Tabish Khan
The surreal, the spiritual and the stars.
Paulo Nimer Pjota’s whimsical paintings are a complicated paradise dream
5 May 2026 • Kate McIlwee
Paulo Nimer Pjota’s Encantados is an immersive world of folklore, surreal beauty and quiet darkness — where enchantment and unease sit side by side.
What If Surrealism Had Won? The Whitney Asks a 1960s Question
2 October 2025 • Jane Horowitz
What exactly is surrealism? That’s the inevitable question for visitors to the Whitney Museum’s Sixties Surreal.
Pauline Karpidas’ £60 million collection up for Auction this September – The most valuable designated collection ever to be offered in Europe.
4 August 2025 • mark westall
Pauline Karpidas belongs to the great 20th century tradition of the Grande Dame, collectors whose devoted patronage, indomitable spirits and… Read More
Davood Roostaei: Many Lives Lived, Many Worlds Imagined
2 March 2023 • Vittoria Benzine
Los Angeles — home to glass marvels perched by the Hollywood sign, sprawling estates in Beverly Hills, and, hidden within an otherwise unassuming duplex in the Valley, an otherworldly paroxysm of color and texture, paintings stacked around the foyer leading to Davood Roostaei’s studio.
The Top 5 Collateral Exhibitions to see in Venice
30 April 2022 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite exhibitions to see in wider Venice to supplement his top 5 pavilions at the Venice Biennale… Read More
Stay up all night at Tate Modern in a Surrealist inspired Tate Late.
10 March 2022 • Mark Westall
On March 25th grab yourself a bottle of Absynthe or two and head down to Tate Modern for a night of Surrealist fun.
Too Many Surrealists?
9 March 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
Now ‘Surrealism Beyond Borders’ repeats the approach, but with 160 artists from around the world rather than concentrate on Surrealism’s Paris-based tradition.
11 surrealist women artists take centre stage for the first time since 1936
17 March 2021 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery’s new archive exhibition, Phantoms of Surrealism, brings together artworks, photographic scrapbooks, press cuttings and original correspondence from the London International Surrealist Exhibition (1936), including a new scale model. Coinciding with Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy, the show reveals the pivotal role of women as artists, behind-the-scenes organisers, editors and animators of the Surrealist movement in Britain.
The World from the South
3 March 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
SOUTH SOUTH is an online community to bring together galleries with at least 40% of their artists coming from the ‘Global South’. Its lockdown-driven first commercial initiative with 50 galleries runs to March 7th.
Finding Your Art Style
8 November 2020 • Mark Westall
Art is a big part of our lives, and we all have certain aesthetics that we lean toward. But do you know your favorite style? With such a variety of styles available, you deserve to find the one that you enjoy most. Here are some different schools of art that you should explore to find your own preferences.
Eduardo Paolozzi’s early deconsacrations – ‘Pop’ collages and lost-wax bronzes on view at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
13 November 2019 • Irene Machetti
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert gallery are showing the first of a series of three exhibitions honouring Eduardo Paolozzi.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London in June
16 June 2019 • Tabish Khan
A mustachioed tiger, tied to a lamppost, heaven and hell, precarious sculpture, helmets, tarred toys and an immense painting.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London in June
2 June 2019 • Tabish Khan
Creepy children, camouflage onesies, colour, birds, photography, motherhood and protest.
Charlap Hyman & Herrero first solo exhibition opens in Venice
22 May 2019 • Irene Machetti
ALMA ZEVI Projects presents Charlap Hyman & Herrero’s debut solo show Ouvrez-moi. Organized by Clara Zevi, it takes the spectators into a parallel mindset.
Emma Fineman’s Surreal comeback is even more intriguing than its precedent
24 February 2019 • Irene Machetti
Emma Fineman solo show, REALMS OF THE (UN) REAL, to open at PUBLIC Gallery, 6th March. The exhibition explores the many facets of our ontological space, imagining them within an absence of temporal constraints.