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This weekend at the last minute I learned about this Lettrism exhibit curated by Frédéric Acquaviva and Bill Kartalopoulos on its last day at the Center for Book Arts. A survey covering the movement from its earliest works, it packed a lot into a small space—most of its 100+ works showing in the US for the first time. A catalogue is available from centerforbookarts.org.
MoMA’s just-opened Duchamp retrospective is excellent and if you’re traveling a distance for the exhibit a trip to the Philadelphia Art Museum to see Étant données and the Bride will really be worth it.
Alice Massénat will have an exhibit of her drawings at the bookstore of Halle Saint-Pierre (2 rue Ronsard, 75018 Paris) opening December 4th.
Běda obrazu… / Woe to the Painting...: An exhibition of Eva Švankmajerová's artwork, featuring paintings, drawings, ceramics, painted props from Jan Švankmajer's films, and film poster designs is on now in Prague through 15 Feb, 2026.
Susana Wald's new autobiography Espejo de papel is out now, covering a life of movement, exploration, and political disruption across continents, hemispheres, and languages as she created art and made surrealism's poetic adventure her own.
I've just received in the mail Steven Cline's latest collection, Skyscraper Pantheon, which opens with an intriguing psychogeographic exploration revolving araound William Seabrook and Aleister Crowley.
Grace Pailthorpe, Leonor Fini, and Leonora Carrington at Nagas Gallery, 47 W. 28th St., NYC.
Interview with Doug Campbell
An excellent and wide-ranging interview with Doug Campbell about his collage work and inspirations, contemporary surrealists, Lovecraft, Jeff Keen, and more.
Aetherscaps and Efficacies: Biomorphic Drawings by Frances Smokowski, the first solo exhibition by the artist, opens at Cavin Morris Gallery, NYC, September 18-October 25, 2025. A catalog is available for each set of drawings. Read a sample of Aetherscapes catalog, with essay by Allan Graubard (via Blurb).
Coming this November from NYRB Books: Opus Sieniestrus, Selected Plays, by Leonora Carrington:
"Best known for her vivid, dreamlike paintings and darkly humorous prose, Leonora Carrington was also a brilliant playwright whose dramatic works are as subversive and sly as anything we have come to expect of her. The first collection of Carrington’s plays to appear in English, this volume gathers plays from her early years in Paris to her later work in Mexico City, and include several that have never before been translated.
"A young woman falls in love with her rocking horse in the coming-of-age-tale Penelope—a production of which was famously staged in 1961 by Alejandro Jodorowsky. In Flannel Night Shirt, a corpse lies in a pool of blood while ghostly figures in flannel night shirts frolic in the basement. And in the ecofeminist satire Opus Siniestrus, an old woman—the sole survivor of a virus that kills only women—battles the patriarchy to prevent it from claiming the last ostrich egg in the world."
Just published: The Oh Oh, by Beatriz Hausner
"The goddess is moved to utterance. Three plus Seven times she Raises the Hour to One. She Returns and loosens the clasps For the Hour is now at Eight a.m. on the Third day of the Eighth month. By the sea did you see the goddess, First Born of the Froth the waves rise on the Sixth month with you: I stand in Amazement. Three times Three is Nine and we are Returned to each other again changed and the parts that are earthy and dampened with penetrant moisture are changed to bodily Flesh. On the Fourth day of the tenth month Am I born again year after year reminded of life of one from the Two and two from the one. Four plus Zero remains four even as all is Changed at every recurrence of Four. The Body grows the seX not and yes and Careless the heart. Four. Yes and no because Four corners do not equal Four corners at Once though they might. Does the age of prestidigitation equal Seven? Yes it does. Birth Day it is as all days are days of birth even this Fifth day of the ninth month when access is given to the boundless world."
The Stone Door, by Leonora Carrington, is back in print for the first time since it appeared in 1977:
"The Stone Door is an omen, an incantation, and an adventure story rolled into one. Built in layers like a puzzle box, it is the tale of two people, of love and the Zodiac and the Kabbalah, of Transylvania and Mesopotamia converging at the Caucasus, of a mad Hungarian King named Böles Kilary and of a woman’s discovery of an initiatory code that leads to a Cyclopean obstacle, to love, self, and awareness, to the great stone door of Kescke and beyond."
Next Thursday WIll Alexander will be at 192 Books in New York to discuss the new edition of his work Asia & Haiti with images by Byron Baker. Reserve a free ticket here.
Que L'aube: A new collection of Jacques Lacomblez's poetry acompanied by his illustrations published last year by Quadri éditions.
Fulgur Press has announced the publication of the first English translation of André Breton's Magic Art, written in collaboration with Gérard Legrand. The standard edition will ship on Nov. 4th with the special edition following on Dec. 2nd. There will also be a launch event at the Warburg Institute in London on Nov. 2nd.
From Fulgur Press:
What is ‘Magic Art’? In 1953, André Breton, founder of the surrealist movement, was invited by a prestigious French publisher to explore answers to this question. His resulting analysis is wide-ranging and evocative. Beginning with a literary review of magic and art, Breton draws upon Novalis and Baudelaire before considering the prehistoric rock art of Spain and France, the native art of the Pacific Northwest, the magical grimoires and alchemical symbolism of the Middle Ages, and the work of Hieronymus Bosch, Antoine Caron, Paolo Uccello, Gustav Moreau, Paul Gauguin and the Surrealists. Through these and other diverse sources, Breton traces a mystery that lies at the heart of our timeless fascination with otherness and seeks to place surrealism as a successor to a magical sensibility that began with art itself.
First published in 1957 as L’Art magique, this important text is offered here as an English translation for the first time. Working from manuscript notes for the original project, this edition presents the iconographic content as Breton intended, together with more than 300 new citations and a comprehensive bibliography that emphasizes sources found in Breton’s own library.
Annie Le Brun (1942-2024)
Annie Le Brun has loomed large on Surrealist NYC over the years with a host of publications, exhibits, interviews, and documentaries, so it came as a shock to read this morning of her death on July 29. Her writing conveyed the power of artists she loved, such as Sade, Rimbaud, Hugo and Breton, so that their revolt rippled with electricity. And for those she didn't love, it did not go well. There will be more tributes and notices in the days to come.
Née le 15 août 1942, à Rennes, la poétesse Annie Le Brun est morte, avons-nous appris ce jeudi 1er août. Avec elle s'éteint toute une histoi
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