Lynn Hershman Leeson

Sixties Surreal at the Whitney
Category
Exhibition Review
Date
Sep 26, 2025
Source
New York Theater
Author
Jonathan Mandell
Excerpt

These artists from diverse backgrounds took license from the wildness of the Surrealist imagination to express the psychosexual, fantastical, spiritual, strange, and revolutionary qualities of their time. Their works channel the tensions and transformations of the Sixties, blending dream imagery with social critique, absurd humor with political unrest, and intimate desire with collective upheaval—creating a vivid snapshot of an era in flux…

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