What if you could actually see what was going on inside someone’s head? Erwin Wurm offers his own wonderfully strange answer with It’s Not Me, It’s Not You (Mind Bubbles), a 2025 sculpture that was part of the artist’s Double Dream exhibit at Lehmann Maupin.
To me, the sculpture looks like a character from some surreal cartoon: A cloud head / body perched atop pair of extremely long, skinny legs that bend awkwardly beneath the enormous, amorphous form. The entire figure is rendered in a soft, dreamy pale blue right down to its little lace-up boots. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Erwin Wurm, It’s Not Me, It’s Not You (Mind Bubbles)→
There are some things in life that make perfect sense, and then there is Banana Hands. This 500-piece jigsaw puzzle from Piecework Puzzles features a wonderfully surreal photograph of what appears to be a person sitting at a table reading a book, surrounded by bananas and fruit. But in place of a head, they have a giant heart-shaped leaf (presumably a banana leaf). And their hands? Well, they’re bananas. Obviously. Continue reading Yes, It Exists: Banana Hands By Piecework Puzzles→
During World War II, after the imprisonment of then partner, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington fled France and sought asylum in Spain. There, she experienced a series of psychological crises. Her family placed her in a sanatorium against her will, where she was subjected to severe treatments. Carrington eventually moved to New York, where Andre Breton encouraged you to write about her experiences in the Surrealist journal VVV. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Leonora Carrington, Green Tea→
Long before luxury fashion houses were commissioning artists to redesign bottles and packaging, René Magritte was quietly turning an ordinary wine bottle into a work of Surrealist sculpture.
Created in 1955, Femme Bouteille (Woman Bottle) transforms the curved form of a glass bottle into the elongated figure of a nude woman. Rather than simply painting an image onto the surface, Magritte cleverly incorporated the shape of the bottle itself into the composition, allowing the object to become the body. The result is elegant, slightly strange, and unmistakably Magritte. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Rene Magritte, Femme Bouteille→
Painted in Sedona, Arizona in 1947, Witnesses originates in a pivotal moment of Dorothy Tanning’s career, when she turned inward, translating the psychological imperatives of Surrealism into interior worlds shaped by ambiguity and concealment. The painting presents a crowded, deliberately compressed interior populated by uncanny, quasi-human figures whose anatomy resist stable definition.
