Explore the exhibition Charles Ray: Figure Ground with two Met curators in this virtual tour, which presents the work of one of the most important contemporary artists.
Nearly from its inception, Surrealism has had an international scope, but knowledge of the movement has been formed primarily through a Western European focus.
This exhibition reconsiders the true “movement” of Surrealism across boundaries of geography and chronology—and within networks that span Eastern Europe to the Caribbean, Asia to North Africa, and Australia to Latin America.
Watch El Cimarrón, a performance based on the oral autobiography of Esteban Montejo, who was born into enslavement, escaped bondage on a Cuban sugar plantation, survived in the jungle, fought for Cuban independence from Spain, and lived to tell about it all before dying at the age of 113.
