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Gallery Talk: “Beyond the Muse: The Women of Surrealism”

When:

August 20, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Where:

Frist Art Museum, 919 Broadway, Nashville, TN

Source:

6AM City Nashville – Events

For decades, the story of surrealism has centered on its most famous male artists. Yet behind—and often beyond—those familiar names were women whose bold, inventive works transformed the movement in profound ways. Rejecting the role of muse, artists such as Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning, Leonor Fini, and Claude Cahun used surrealism to explore identity, transformation, mythology, dreams, and the complexities of the self. *International Surrealism from Tate: Fifty Years of Dreams* includes