That question might be put to visitors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Surrealism Beyond Borders” exhibition, a show filled with grotesque representations of political upheaval and ...

Though generally thought of as an art movement with its roots in World War I and its oppressive aftermath for the vanquished German nation, the comic grotesque traces its roots to the paintings of ...

During the peak of the queer art movement in the 1970s, many gay artists deployed pop culture icons as a way of critiquing socially imposed sexual identity and the politics of sexual assimilation.

Paula Rego, whose art captured ‘the beautiful grotesque,’ dies at 87. Born in Portugal, she became one of Britain’s most renowned artists, with a major retrospective last year at Tate Britain ...

Athens artist Victoria Dugger, who combines the cute and the grotesque in her artwork, ... The prize also comes with a solo exhibition in 2025 at the Hudgens Center for Art & Learning in Duluth.