Books
The Spellbinding Totality of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy’s Love
A new monograph hones in on the artist-couple’s collaboration.
Yves Tanguy
News
The Surrealist Painting That Survived A Fascist Attack
X-ray imaging revealed the hidden wounds on Yves Tanguy’s 1930 masterpiece, which was slashed violently during an attack on a Paris arthouse theater.
News
A Surrealist Yves Tanguy Painting Was Tossed in Trash at a German Airport
The painting, worth an estimated $340,000, was left behind by a traveler at Düsseldorf Airport and scrapped by a cleaning crew.
Art
The Surrealist Roots of the "Vaporwave" Genre
The aesthetic niche combining electronic music and digital art finds an ancestor in Surrealism, particularly in the self-taught French painter Yves Tanguy.
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Overheard at the Met
It’s summer in New York and the focus of the city’s art fans shifts to museums as many stage large tourist-friendly shows and turn up the air conditioning during the sweltering months. Visiting the museums I encounter people — often tourists — who discuss art with refreshingly unfiltered opinions ab