Art Review: Surrealist Collage Show at Di Donna Galleries

This past October was the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Surrealist manifesto, which gave an intellectual foundation to a movement in which dreams and reality meet, blur, and conspire, and where thought thrives untethered from reason and morality. Today, Surrealism is alive and kicking. Milk of Dreams, after all, the title of the 2022 Venice Biennale, recognized and revived women Surrealist artists from the Teens through the 1950s but mostly concerned contemporary art that I’d call Surrealist.

Then there’s the latest wacky news. Trump and Musk vie for a new take on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Who’ll tweet “YOU MAKE ME PUKE” first? There’s that new economic plan called “Fifty Shades of Tariff,” suiting every whim. Lotsa left-wing love for the cold-blooded killer and unforgivably unibrowed Mangione, and for the alleged human trafficker Abrego Garcia. And what about all those baby showers for all those pregnant men? We’ve truly gone through the Looking Glass. No wonder Surrealism’s still in style.

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This past October was the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Surrealist manifesto, which gave an intellectual foundation to a movement in which dreams and reality meet, blur, and conspire, and where thought thrives untethered from reason and morality. Today, Surrealism is alive and kicking. Milk of Dreams, after all, the title of the 2022 Venice Biennale, recognized and revived women Surrealist artists from the Teens through the 1950s but mostly concerned contemporary art that I’d call Surrealist.

Then there’s the latest wacky news. Trump and Musk vie for a new take on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Who’ll tweet “YOU MAKE ME PUKE” first? There’s that new economic plan called “Fifty Shades of Tariff,” suiting every whim. Lotsa left-wing love for the cold-blooded killer and unforgivably unibrowed Mangione, and for the alleged human trafficker Abrego Garcia. And what about all those baby showers for all those pregnant men? We’ve truly gone through the Looking Glass. No wonder Surrealism’s still in style.