In this week's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I write about an important museum exhibition devoted to the work of a pioneer of modernism. Here's an excerpt. *  *  * Surrealism is a word with which most of us are on speaking terms"but it's also a near-dead metaphor. To describe something as "surreal" is now little more than a fancy way of calling it "weird," and my guess is that only people fam…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM on February 5, 2020