: The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College will host the New
England premier of "Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on
Paper Collected by Julien Levy," which will be on display from
January 15 through March 24.
This national traveling exhibition includes more than 100
drawings, collages, prints, watercolors and photographs by key
artists of the Surrealist movement collected by the late Julien
Levy, one of the Twentieth Century's most influential art
dealers. The exhibition title comes from one of Salvador Dali's
most famous images, "Accommodations of Desire," a painting that
Levy once owned and counted among his favorites.
Surrealism, which dominated modern art in the 1930s and 1940s,
attempted to reconcile everyday reality and the world of dreams
into a superreality, or surreality. Levi described the genre as a
melding of dream, metaphor, fetishism, nonsense and play. His
passion for this art exceeded professional protocol. One observer
described the preeminent art dealer and collector as militant
about the movement whose cause he advanced through his New York
gallery. A public event to celebrate the opening of the
exhibition will be held at the McMullen Museum on Tuesday,
January 25, from 7:30 to 9:30 pm.
The museum is located in Devlin Hall on the Chestnut Hill
campus of Boston College, at 140 Commonwealth Avenue. For
information, 617-552-8100 or bc.edu/artmuseum.
