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Stella Im Hultberg: exclusive preview of new paintings
When Brooklyn-based painter Stella Im Hultberg was working on her latest paintings, she read Haruki Murakami's novel 1Q84. Twice. The Japanese surrealist's writing has long been an inspiration to her....
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Nerval's Lobster: Is walking a crustacean any more ridiculous than a dog?
Boing Boing Feature Nerval's Lobster By Mark Dery Part of a Series: "Self-Help for Surrealists." “Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? Or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any...
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Dictionary of Surrealism and the Graphic Image
BB contributor Mark Dery says: Rick Poynor, an unapproachably brilliant writer on design and visual culture, has generously posted at Design Observer the glossary of Surrealist concepts from his...
View ArticleDery does Buñuel
BB contributor Mark Dery wrote a fascinating rumination on the Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel, best known for his 1929 short film collaboration with Salvador Dalí, Un Chien Andalou. (Yes, the one with...
View ArticleMilos "Sholim" Rajkovic: surrealist, Gilliamesque animations from Serbia
Milos "Sholim" Rajkovic is like a Belgradian anti-war Terry Gilliam, who produces the most remarkable surreal animations made from decomposed heads -- authority figures like generals and ranking...
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Photos from the Rothschilds' 1972 surrealist ball
Hang the Bankers has a set of photos from 1972 surrealist ball hosted by Marie-Hélène de Rothschild at the Château de Ferrières, with Salvador Dali in attendance. Hang the Bankers cites this as...
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RIP, H.R. Giger, 1940-2014
H.R. Giger in 1979 wearing sunglasses he designed. (Keystone/Photopress) Swiss public TV was first to report that surrealist science fiction illustrator H.R. Giger has died at 74. Giger created the...
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Buy Salvador Dalí's unpublished notebook
One of Salvador Dalí's unpublished notebooks is up for auction at Sotheby's in Paris. Part of a fantastic array of Dada and Surrealist items for sale by the Bibliothèque R. & B. L. From CNN: Among...
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Mark Dery on the old, weird eBay
At Hyperallergic, BB pal Mark Dery mourns the loss of "the Internet's kitschiest, most surreal" flea market and laments its new role as "the world's largest mall." (In the 1920s,) the Surrealists...
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Trailer for surreal sci-fi flick, Quadrant
I'm looking forward to Quadrant, an upcoming, utterly fantastic-looking movie created by Woodrow White and David Lauer. It looks like a collaboration between Devo and Alejandro Jodorowsky. I met...
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Drone footage mirrored to create surreal kaleidoscopic landscapes
Parker Paul posted this video, in which the term "quadcopter" refers both to the drone (piloted by Alban Roinard) and the simple but effective mirror symmetry applied to the footage. The music is...
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The absurd and irreverent art of 81-year-old Pedro Friedeberg
Pedro Friedeberg is a popular Mexican artist whose work encompasses the ideas and iconographies of Catholicism, Hinduism, Aztec Codes, and Occult symbols. Although the Hand Chair (shown below), created...
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Modern day surrealism: Watch donuts defy the laws of physics in this freaky...
Animation studio Aloe Design uploaded this cool but unsettling video of donuts flying towards a man’s face before the laws of physics suddenly change: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bda5yGMB79z/ Even the...
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Technology is landscape in Yuri Shwedoff's art
I love Yuri Shwedoff's subdued, atmospheric renderings of vestigial technology and the people who still see it, still wear it. The lansdcape wears it, too, and it evokes for me a deeper relationship...
View ArticleSalvador Dalí reborn as a deepfake at his museum
The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida has reanimated Salvador Dalí as a deepfake video experience. The "Dalí Lives" video installation opens in April on screens throughout the galleries. As Dali...
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Paintings by famed chimpanzee to be sold by London gallery
During the 1950s, surrealist and ethologist Desmond Morris mentored Congo, a chimpanzee, in the great ape's artistic pursuits. Congo painted more than 400 works that were purchased by the likes of...
View ArticleNew video from "dark forest folk" band Hexvessel features scenes from...
I loved last year's All Tree from former Black Metalist Kvohst (aka Mat McNerney) and his folkier project, Hexvessel. The band has been described as "dark folk," "psychedelic forest folk," and "occult...
View ArticleThe story behind Dalí and Disney's surrealist short "Destino"
Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney were friends. They met at a party in 1944 and soon began collaborating on a surreal animated short together. Destino didn't get finished in their lifetimes but was...
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