The Whitney Museum in NYC has a new presentation exploring the work of real and surreal artists of the last century. 
“This exhibition, drawn entirely from the deep holdings of the Whitney Museum’s permanent collection, will focus on the tension and overlap between two strong currents in twentieth century art. Although the term “realism” has many facets, a basic connection to the observable world underlies all of them; the subversion of reality through the imagination and the subconscious lies at the heart of Surrealism. Yet there are convergences in these different and even oppositional approaches to experience, and they encourage new ways of looking at the art of the twenties, thirties, and forties in America.”
“Real/Surreal” until February, 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York, NY
(Image: George Tooker, “The Subway”, 1950)