Man Ray is considered one of the most influential visual artists of the 20th Century, significantly contributing to the Dada and Surrealist art movements through his painting and photography. A ...
The rayograph has been long admired but largely misunderstood. This important retrospective gives Man Ray’s eponymous photograms the attention they deserve.
Man Ray—the American artist and photographer who all but defined the early 20th-century Paris art scene—is associated with many things. He’s associated with Surrealism and Dada, and the likes of ...
Last week, Christie’s New York announced it would offer a remarkable Man Ray photograph from the estate of New York fashion executives Melvin Jacobs and Rosalind Gersten Jacobs in a live, single-owner ...
More than 270 photographs show expressions of gender and sexuality across two centuries. Works by well-known photographers such as Berenice Abbott, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray and Edmund Teske hang ...
Man Ray, "Boardwalk" (1917), oil, wood handles, and yarn on wood (© Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025; all other photos Julia Curl/Hyperallergic) Stepping into ...
By engaging with art imaginatively, we can encounter that deeper reality that the Surrealists have always sought in their artwork.
La Lectura has access to one of the lesser-known portraits of Dalí, created by Man Ray in 1936 and that has remained hidden until now. The uniqueness of the piece, a discard from a well-known photo ...
Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, Jewish Museum, New York, NY (solo) Man Ray: African Art through the Modernist Lens, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; University of Virginia Art Museum, ...
Even as a child, the artist Man Ray used materials daringly. In his autobiography, “Self Portrait” (1963), he recalls smearing fresh green paint from shutters onto his face to startle his mother and ...