Surrealism, long studied as a movement in painting and film, is now the focus of two sculptural exhibitions. At the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, the show Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York (until 15 February 2016) includes more than 120 works by 20 artists, including Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti and even the US Abstract Expressionist artist David Smith, who was influenced by Surrealist work.
Meanwhile, at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York, a show of 14 bronze and stones works by the German artist Max Ernst go on view tomorrow (Max Ernst Paramyths: Sculpture, 1934-1967, 22 October-5 December). The exhibition spans 40 years of work and includes the sculpture La Plus Belle (1967), which was dedicated to his wife, the painter Dorothea Lange. The work has never before been exhibited in the US.
