So, anyway, begins my surreal existence at the Comfort Inn. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the most surreal night Pearl had ever experienced. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We remained standing in the Appelplatz for a long time, unable to detach ourselves from this surreal moment. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Accompanying the noble few in the tombs to the world of the deceased were copper beads and bracelets, stone tablets and collars, textiles and awls, and, sometimes, stone pipes in the shape of surreal animals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was such a strange, surreal weekend, but talking to you about it made it so much better. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Fittingly, the summit was a surreal, malevolent place, an improbably slender wedge of rock and rime no wider than a file cabinet. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bell that, given the block’s acoustics, echoed loudly off everything and lent an aura of night-mare to the surreal scene. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt so surreal having her presented to me like that, the perfect blonde I’d watched, whose life I’d constructed and deconstructed in mv head. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra tried to pretend she was on a surreal playground, where the kids waded in milk instead of sand and slid down thick, meaty poles. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

This is so surreal, I keep looking around for Salvador Dali to make an appearance. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He can remember it vividly, even though the whole day was surreal. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The moment became even more surreal as I scanned the rest of the audience and noticed a beaming Uma Thurman on the sidelines. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But the idea of myself as part of a couple is so intensely surreal, I can’t even wrap my head around it. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

And here’s where things became completely surreal, because riding by his side, astride a creature with the body of a ravid and the head and wings of Wraith the white eagle was...Sarai. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The skies were lilac-colored and the snowy streets had a surreal, lunar glow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The evening would only get more surreal as the hours inched later into the night. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

All the flames were tinged with blue, making the scene dreamlike and surreal. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They lived a surreal, quasi-adult existence, becoming sober straphangers as many of their peers were getting drunk at frat parties. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The artwork was colorful and surreal, and it left me feeling uneasy. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It felt as if she were watching something happening to other people, a surreal drama that had turned into a game of Murder in the Dark. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s what they call surreal” he went on. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The most surreal moment of all, though, had come early, on just the second day of our trip. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The apartment was blue with smoke, through which the broad expanse of white linoleum was arctic, surreal. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He felt as though she were the center of this small, surreal galaxy—indeed, that it was she who was dreaming him, and not the other way around. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was surreal, but I’ll tell you, I about died laughing. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’d never seen him dress in black before, and, with the contrast against his pale skin, his beauty was absolutely surreal. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s just a big open space with a grid of empty streets still surreally furnished with stop signs and fire hydrants. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

This feels so surreal that it’s hard to speak. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I do this, and what’s so surreal is that I can feel my foot. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Like a ghostly apparition, she vanished into the surreal light of the fading sunset. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It felt surreal, asking When did she die? about his own mother. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Walking through the mall in formal wear is surreal. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The reaction was surreal; at least five kids handed their sweaters or jackets over within a few seconds. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The road to the plantation had been cut into the Amazon’s famously poor soil—it was the blaring orange- red of cheap makeup, almost surreally bright against the great dark green leaves of the forest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was surreal in a way I hadn't anticipated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It felt surreal, to be driven past the electronic gates, the high walls, the wires. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

So I walk off in the other direction, hoping my enemies still lie locked in the surreal world of tracker jacker venom. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Being back in school after that kind of drop was surreal, like I was falling past everyone else so quickly they couldn’t even see me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

One route open to the advance guard was to play with the musical possibilities of the surreal and the absurd. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The fact that such ideas are being discussed even semi-seriously shows how surreal the universe may be. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was alone, isolated in a bubble of resistance, watching this surreal scene magnified beyond comprehension. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even the food is surreal: corned beef and cabbage with pumpkin pie that’s still frozen in the middle for dessert. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Far to the southeast, along the India-Nepal frontier, colossal thunderheads drifted over the malarial swamps of the Terai, illuminating the heavens with surreal bursts of orange and blue lightning. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when there’s been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now, moving through the crowds along 125th Street, I was painfully aware of other men dressed like the boys, and of girls in dark exotic-colored stockings, their costumes surreal variations of downtown styles. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Red screamed at him and entered a perimeter near the bus where the light gave him a surreal visibility. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The information warp was due to the Internet, and to those of us at Base Camp it was nothing less than surreal. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Thus began a series of events that were surreal. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It feels so surreal to be in my room, with my stuffed animals and my books and my collection of poisons. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It’s beautiful and surreal, and absolutely nothing like Georgia. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Now he could appreciate just how surreal the experience had been. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But even that thought struck her as slightly surreal. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a surreal sight—the tidy white fencing, the bright green lawn. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The surreal display of excess was even more intoxicating than the champagne, but did he like it? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The red-orange blaze engulfing the building looked surreal. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The moment felt surreal—no, not surreal, absurd—it had knocked the breath out of me, brought the world around me to a standstill. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a surreal comic of my life, and I pictured the worst possible Outcome: “Annie. Would it be okay if I sat down with you for a minute?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We walked down the moonlit trail toward a dark and misty shore, a surreal place, a place somewhere between sleep and wakefulness. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Everybody around cheers, and it’s all so incredibly surreal. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Isn’t that part of what got her into this mess, to this place where she is weirdly and surreally standing alone on a high, rotting railway trestle on her eighteenth birthday? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But hearing music on the other end of the line was surreal. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

But she felt so inexplicably blissful, and the troubles of the evening seemed so remote, that she began to wonder whether it had all been a surreal dream. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I tucked it behind my ear, blinked, and slowly swiveled, the carousel music creating a perfectly surreal, magical backdrop. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t deny that there was a part of him that enjoyed the surreal nature of celebratory attention. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

On the podium at the Olympic Games, embracing one of the most surreal moments of my life. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They all came to my grandfather’s funeral, but while I loved their warmth and sympathy, it also felt very surreal. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Anticipating this, the company had set aside Sector One as the simulation’s designated business zone and began to sell and rent millions of blocks of surreal estate there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There’s a new “normal,” because our lives are punctuated by weird air pockets of the surreal. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It felt surreal, as if the horizon had disappeared beyond the hills. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I did. It was just too surreal to pass up.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Drug raids of state correctional facilities were a bizarre consequence of this surreal drug dealing to carry out executions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The mariposas swirled and twirled around us like dark snowflakes in the surreal light of dusk, making the moment almost magical in its beauty. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

So, it’s still surreal that Alex is cruising somewhere over the Atlantic, snacking on pistachios in a high-backed leather chair with his feet up. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Were it not for the anxiety, an Election Day might qualify as a kind of mini-vacation, a surreal pause between everything that's happened and whatever lies ahead. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

That would give me something to cling to in the surreal world of the arena where the authenticity of everything is to be doubted. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Once again, I experienced that surreal feeling of having a dream come true. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s surreal. I can’t thank you enough for what you did.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The week that followed was a solitary and surreal one. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As the unsuspecting prey went around the end, still adjusting to the slightly surreal notion of practicing football indoors on a basketball court at seven-twenty in the morning, Ivory just smacked him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I look back now, it’s almost surreal. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It was as revelatory, exciting, intense, and surreal as Mayor Schmoke promised. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It was surreal to see all of these armed men gathered near midnight to make sure a life would be taken without incident. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Adolescence is a surreal world: Kids who don helmets and practice banging into one another for hours each week are deemed healthy and wholesome, even heroic. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was surreal being back at camp, because everything looked so peaceful: no burning buildings, no wounded fighters. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But after the surreal encounter with the rose, for the first time the descent makes me feel safer. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

This is proof that life is totally surreal here in our little Pennsylvania Dutch county. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

What had seemed to be very surreal now has become vividly, luridly real. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

His very presence in the procession was enough to make the scene seem surreal. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a new light now, a new path, and it didn’t come to him in some fantastic, surreal dream, as the call to preach had. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stepping under the shower’s perfect warm spray was already surreal enough without having to hear the click-click-click-beep of Thurmond’s automatic timer to keep my wash time under three minutes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The surreal whirlwind of the preceding weeks had left Walter devastated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The dogwood blossoms were poised, white and surreal and still against the darkening sky, the heavy air. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It feels strange and surreal to be here, to be doing this. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But everyone screams and howls in response, and it’s completely surreal. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The entire effect would be surreal except the clothes are ridiculously wrinkled. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

A faint mist hugs the air, giving everything a surreal haze. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The total effect is rather surreal, especially when one sees Les Africains moving about attending to their tasks in this mechanized setting. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then afterward, when you go to tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt surreal, to see the man standing not ten yards away from him, after having hero-worshipped him from afar for nearly a decade, after having laughed at every YouTube joke. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And when I looked around, I saw that a flurry of magnificent mariposas swarmed around us as we stood waiting on the summit of the hill, awed by the surreal beauty that surrounded us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The lack of sleep coupled with Lynnie’s death made the world surreal. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She could barely believe what had just happened—it was all so surreal, this place with its impossibly smooth walls and intoxicating lights. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Time, as she had done to me for the past eighteen years, will provide them also with the half-baked answers to the surreal life I was about to sever myself from. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is surreal to be here on the field instead of watching enviously from the stands. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of surreal image you’d expect to see on the cover of an old issue of Heavy Metal or Dragon magazine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Black Saucer II,” a surreal piece by Jason Grote, recalls the adage about drug trips — they may be exciting to experience, but hearing them recounted is tiresome. Theater Review: ‘The Spring Fling: First Love,’ at the Access Theater 2014-05-05T21:19:25Z

Yes, it’s surreal to cite Keillor now, on the subject of touching. Is the era of hugging over? Some people sure hope so. 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

Some critics saw it as a withering and ultimately arid satire on affluent American aridness, an overextended variation on shorter, more surreal works like “The American Dream” and “The Sandbox.” | 'A Delicate Balance': Voices Pitched to a Fine-Tuned Hollow Sound 2010-08-24T22:05:00Z

The result is surreal, vigorous and sometimes even joyful, but threats – whether in the form of addiction and abuse, or in the neatly latticed darkness that shadows the house – are never far away. Eustace by SJ Harris – review 2013-03-01T17:01:01Z

Imagine that one of the Watergate burglars had been named Alan Alda and you will get a sense of the almost surreal confusion. The Very English Politics of “A Very English Scandal” 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

But there was something surreal about coming across them all bound up like that: the shot captures a moment of harmony and clarity in an ordinarily messy world. Chloe Dewe Mathews's best photograph – Uzbek migrant workers 2013-06-12T18:30:01Z

Rendered in Japanese ink wash, it is a surreal look at nuclear family dynamics. Getting to know the works of Isao Takahata 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

It felt surreal to simply dial a number from my house and ask for him. My Brother Tom’s Schizophrenia 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

The whole experience of making the film has been surreal for Hudson, whose name is in the Oscar conversation again. Jennifer Hudson plays her idol Aretha Franklin in ‘Respect’ 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

Mostly, though, it's hard not to wonder how these very sensitive human beings will weather this surreal experience. My new TV addiction: Bravo's "Work of Art" 2010-06-05T22:01:00Z

It had the coughs, the stutters, the surreal diversions in discussions of cats, the reveals — because it was interrogatory in nature. Their Downtown Hits Are Now Sharing a Broadway Stage 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in the spirit of celebrating a particular artistic digital possibility, why not send your ideas for surreal scenes to Jim'll Paint It and also reveal them in the comments below. Jim'll Paint It 2013-03-06T13:45:56Z

The player controls Mario, a small man in a brightly surreal, flat and mostly horizontal world called the Mushroom Kingdom. Video Game Review: New Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Nintendo 3DS 2012-08-17T11:55:55Z

The atmosphere was somewhat surreal, with arriving editors expecting an informal presentation, only to discover that seats had been scattered around for a slightly more formal showing on models. On the Runway: A Bittersweet Note for Galliano 2011-03-06T18:13:24Z

Of course, there are surreal moments when chatting with a global superstar. Kanye, Out West 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

But a lawyer for Bolton described the government’s request as surreal and impractical, particularly since copies of the book have already been released to leading news media organizations and have received substantial publicity. Judge weighs US bid to stop release of John Bolton’s book 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

Seeing and hearing something so familiar made the long journey we’d taken to get there, if for a beat, surreal. Within the Grand Canyon, the Lure of Havasu Falls 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

The show will also include a new video work, “Between Fork and Ladder,” that follows the adventures of a boy engaged in a series of surreal actions. Datebook: Intimate paintings of queer men, African blacksmiths' ironworks and an indispensable assistant's exhibit 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

It's a surreal but enjoyable way to spend a tea break. Click to download: the best of the Webbys 2010-05-13T22:30:00Z

I'd mentioned "Inclusion", a surreal story in his book Grey Area that satirises the psychopharmacological brouhaha surrounding Prozac. Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z

Now, the actress is hoping to establish her own voice by documenting a surreal adventure, “In Search of Fellini.” 'The Simpsons' actress finds her own voice 'In Search for Fellini' 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

Instead I was deep in a Ray Bradbury story, neither surreal nor real,” she said. Odyssey Works Makes Art for and About One Person 2012-10-07T05:10:06Z

She optioned the film rights to a novel called “Clown Girl,” about a clown living in the surreal town of Baloneyville. Can Kristen Wiig Turn On the Charm? 2011-05-01T08:30:02Z

If there was a whiff of the surreal about the proceedings, it was heightened only by the fact that some of the program was very good. Review: Washington Square Music Festival Features Joseph Anderer 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

The premise of the comedy “Yesterday” is surreal and yet tantalizingly simple: What if you woke up to discover you were the only person who still remembered the music of the Beatles? The Long and Winding Road to ‘Yesterday,’ a Film Full of Beatles Music 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Sad and strange and defiantly gross, “Relaxer” is a surreal survival tale swirling with childhood trauma and Y2K paranoia. ‘Relaxer’ Review: Help! He’s Sitting and He Can’t Get Up 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

So many things were revolutionary about “Twin Peaks,” and its DNA saturates the TV gene pool: Every serialized mystery, teenage melodrama, quirky dramedy and surreal supernatural thriller owes something to it. Was ‘Twin Peaks’ Ahead of Its Time? Let’s Look Back and See 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

The songs became surreal production numbers at a carnival sideshow, especially Mr. Waits’s “God’s Away on Business” and “All the World Is Green.” Review: Camille O’Sullivan, Proclaiming Ferocious Truths at Irish Arts 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

It is worth following his progress in his latest exhibition which includes surreal pastiches of portraiture and allusive scenes out of some Bloomsbury era memoir. Nan Goldin, Tony Cragg and Robert Rauschenberg ? the week in art 2011-07-22T12:06:33Z

That doesn’t stop them from speaking candidly about the surreal, unsettling experience of finding one’s self in the crosshairs of a vast and powerful establishment. 'It can be hard to keep hope': behind a shocking immigration docuseries 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

It's tempting to read Moore's work as a surreal road map to the author's interior. Lorrie Moore 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z

Ms. Knox, 29, described the date as “pretty surreal.” Chasing Their Fears and Finding Each Other 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

The whimsical performance artist performs "Dirtday!," the third in her series of solo story works, which touches on politics, evolution, family, history and animals but promises, as always, to mix the hyper-real and the surreal. The week ahead: Arts and entertainment highlights for the week beginning Oct. 14 2012-10-10T22:46:04Z

They shared a visual sensibility as well, flaunting shiny, brightly colored, surreal forms. Sophie, Who Pushed the Boundaries of Pop Music, Dies at 34 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

It was terrifying and surreal, just as that moment must have been for the people experiencing it. The Walking Dead recap: season six, episode nine – No Way Out 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

The heist was daring, the ransom negotiations bizarre, and the trial surreal—part Monty Python, part Perry Mason, part Ally McBeal, and yet critical to legal history. The wackiest art heist ever: Hardly a “Thomas Crown Affair,” this real theft of a masterpiece was a little bit 007 and a whole lot Monty Python 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

“And there’s a tender, even beautiful side to its surreal moments.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘House of the Dragon’ and U.S. Gymnastic Championships 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

Ms. Vega is as observant of her own closely guarded inner life as she is of the surrounding urban environment whose details she describes in a song like “Tom’s Diner” with an almost surreal precision. 2010-01-30T05:31:00Z

Director Neil Jordan distills all the Freudian, fairy tale imagery and horror contained in Carter’s work into one surreal version of Little Red Riding Hood with werewolves. Review | Let’s talk about ‘Starship Troopers’ and other science fiction and fantasy novels that wowed us on screen 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Though the jarring, surreal opening minutes give way to a straightforwardly directed standup special, they also hint at what C.K. could do to keep this format fresh. Half-Truths, Non-Truths, and Louis C.K. 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

The surreal story is weird and gross and dumb. Can Art Change the World? With Song, Dance and Cowboy Clichés Two Shows Offer Different Answers 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

The episode was a surreal surprise that – as EW’s Dalton Ross put it – played like a poem. 'Better Call Saul' Scored Highest Debut Ratings in Cable History 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

“I think it needs to be more surreal,” the conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin said from the orchestra pit of the Metropolitan Opera on a recent afternoon. ‘The Hours’ Becomes an Opera. Don’t Expect the Book or Film. 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

There's a fair bit of slapstick, but the culture-clash humor is light and earnest, and the story even takes a few surreally dark turns towards the end. Scarecrow Video recommendations for 'The Muppets' 2011-11-22T18:05:22Z

The moon was just rising, molten white; he had to catch that moment with its surreal, sculpturing incandescence. Art Review: ‘The Path of Nature,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-01-24T22:22:49Z

Ms. Miller puts a generous helping of her sweet, slightly surreal music on her own blog; I particularly like her radical compression of music from Monteverdi’s “Orfeo,” scored for chamber ensemble and assorted children’s toys. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Leonard Bernstein, Keller Quartet, Cassandra Miller and More 2013-12-18T18:17:02Z

Tara Donovan has created a landscape of stubby pillars that slightly resemble the hoodoos of Bryce Canyon in Utah, filling the room with a surreal topography of sedimentary forms. Newly scrubbed Renwick Gallery opens Friday 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

For Daniel Weiss, the Met’s president and chief executive, the moment is surreal. The Metropolitan Museum of Art spent years planning its 150th anniversary. Now the galleries are dark, the celebrations on hold. 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

It’s home to a large permanent collection of glass pieces by Dale Chihuly, adding an element of the surreal to the experience. An Awakening in Columbus, a Reckoning in Williamsburg 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

This is the most surreal day of my life.” Major Grammy Honors for Adele and Foo Fighters 2012-02-13T05:27:04Z

And to read that work when the eyewitness was a friend recently killed while trying to continue, if not complete, the narrative is downright surreal. On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin 1986-2012 ? review 2012-05-19T23:08:01Z

On “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” Thede builds her jokes with patience, taking time to establish the world of her character before spiraling into the surreal. ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ Has the Most Exciting Comics (and the Silliest) 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

"I can't really come to the reality of the situation that it's moved and gone so far. Now to see it in Christie's is a really surreal experience." Emin 'hopes' bed will go to museum 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Across the street, the surreal Antigone neighborhood, named for the ancient Greek play, is an interesting spot to stroll or picnic while the city dozes. 36 Hours in Montpellier, France 2012-08-09T19:11:35Z

In Act II of his “Tote Stadt,” the house of Act I is shattered and surreally spread throughout the stage. Risking Boos, the Met Opera Puts Present-Day America Onstage 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

As for how it felt to have not only pulled it off, but to be recognized at the highest levels, he described it as surreal. Austin Butler: ‘I wish Lisa Marie was here right now to get to be a part of it’ 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

“It feels very surreal to me and I’m just really happy,” she said. Leah Nanako Winkler Is Awarded the 2018 Yale Drama Series Prize 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

Though visibly nervous, Paltrow delivered a capable performance that night, one she calls "one of the most exhilarating, surreal, challenging moments in my life." Gwyneth Paltrow: Wild in the 'Country' 2010-12-23T06:00:00Z

On the eve of unveiling her autumn/winter 2012 collection, the designer talks with Suzy Menkes about wearing black in a world of color, surreal prints, her background and her plans for the future. During London Week, Mary Katrantzou Talks About Prints 2012-02-20T19:06:15Z

He seems to find this whole surreal detour into festival life hilarious, and it would be a stony heart that wasn't charmed by his twinkly amusement. Kenny Rogers at Glastonbury 2013 – review 2013-06-30T17:40:34Z

It was surreal and scary; but if it happened again I would do the same. Experience: I saved a woman who jumped in front of a train 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Using collage techniques, surreal juxtapositions and experiments with light and composition, he captures a deeper sense of the choreographic aesthetic, or a dancer's personality, along with the actual movement material being portrayed. This week's new dance 2011-04-01T23:06:01Z

They were from 1936, but would be a perfect surreal fit with current fashion. Sleeping Beauties Brought to Life 2012-09-30T17:47:47Z

The search for clues led deep inside an old, surreal warehouse filled with eerie spirits. The future of Asian American theater? East West Players' new leader charts a course 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

The movie doesn't even try to capture the surreal metaphysical stuff like Turtle the Creator or how the Losers see a vision of It smashing to Earth like an asteroid millions of years ago. Reading Stephen King's 'It': Still unsettling, all these years later 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

It sticks to the broad facts and the characters are real, but Prebble adds surreal flourishes, including singing troupes, light sabres and shadow companies depicted as birds of prey. Why fact-based stories are destroying the art of fiction 2011-01-23T00:04:25Z

But the Italian director's surreal, beguiling film has plenty besides to recommend it. Cannes 2013 round-up, week 2: Gosling for breakfast, skinflicks for lunch 2013-05-25T10:59:01Z

Afterward, the cast gathered, eager to know how surreal it felt to watch your life unfold theatrically. Davy Rothbart on Tour for Book; Peter Rothbart, for Album 2012-09-19T22:57:14Z

The 93rd annual Academy Awards were always going to be a bit surreal this year. Explainer: What was with that weird Oscar ending? 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

In the just-waking hours of a cool, misty morning, we slipped into Frankfurt, Germany, the way dreams slide between vivid reality and hazy memory: surreal and ephemeral. Frankfurt on the fly: A long layover allows for a walking tour of the German city 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

"I'm watching the plane on the TV," he says, "it's absolutely surreal." The Returned; Terror in The Skies; Operation Snow Tiger – TV review 2013-06-10T06:00:22Z

George Crumb’s gorgeous “Ancient Voices of Children,” which he set to surreally vivid texts by Federico García Lorca in 1970, was the concert’s highlight. Music Review: Opera Moderne?s ?Modern Tryst? at the Galapagos Art Space - Review 2011-09-01T22:41:50Z

“Even if it feels surreal, I can’t play surreal,” says Driver. Cannes: Adam Driver on singing, surrealism and ‘Annette’ 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Bodies are repeated, layered, abstracted, and even enveloped in water, as in the case of the slightly surreal underwater photographs by Seattle-based Shelly Corbett. In ‘Get Naked,’ artists take back control of the female image 2013-09-13T14:01:09Z

Onstage, Arca’s music unfolded alongside videos, by his longtime collaborator Jesse Kanda, that featured human bodies turned abstract and surreal: silhouetted, elongated, shadowed, given new anatomy, undulating in liquid motion. Arca, Valued Facilitator, Steps Out Front 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Backstage, Affleck described how surreal it was when he heard her say the word: "Argo." `Argo' wins best picture on scattered Oscar night 2013-02-25T18:25:11Z

Anthony Browne's surreal illustrations tell richly imaginative stories in books such as The Tunnel or Into the Forest. How to find picture books for older children 2013-02-25T16:59:44Z

“I’m just glad to be with them now, I was so overwhelmed both physically and mentally, it was surreal,” she mused. Coronavirus: Health care worker surprises daughters after 9 weeks apart amid pandemic 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

He coated interior-set walls in oil to give them a surreal shimmer, and used long-focus lenses to make buildings look clustered together, emphasizing a sense of claustrophobic delirium. James Wong Howe: A Gutsy Cinematographer Finally Gets His Due 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

“Appreciating the surreal silence, the sudden halt to almost everything, spending more time with my loved ones.” An Artist’s New Migration Song 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

As it enters its third and final season, the series shifts further into the surreal. Sick of working from home? "Corporate" will remind you of how lucky you are to escape your cubicle 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

But I did find it surreal and absurd that Mohan was even recalled to the Leveson inquiry to defend her, with the best part of half a day devoted to the issue. Never mind Page 3, internet porn is what damages young minds 2013-06-13T14:44:47Z

Unpredictability is at the core of any joke, but “Louis” surprises us just as often with the dark, surreal or deeply wrong. Watch the Evolution of Cringe Comedy in 9 Clips 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

It is at the same time granularly realistic and unpredictably surreal. Louie Watch: Yin and Yangtze 2012-09-28T19:03:18Z

As Christo spoke, surreal drawings evoking science fiction were projected on the wall. Talking to Christo About His Floating Piers 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

So when I came to America, it was surreal to me. Meet Chanelle Benz, whose debut book is 'The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

From that sweet place came movies like “La La Land” and its happily surreal relative, a ballet called “Whipped Cream.” American Ballet Theatre’s ‘Whipped Cream’: A fleeting sugar high 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

But he also wrote for the surreal, cult comedy The Goon Show. Obituary: Eric Sykes 2012-07-04T11:18:49Z

“It was sort of surreal,” Harris said, of watching her younger self. Found! A Lost TV Version of “Wuthering Heights” 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

“It was maybe the most surreal moment I’ve had — I don’t really leave my house much.” ‘The Idol’ Creators: ‘This Is Not Going to Be for Everybody’ 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

A surreal, high-pitched wail signals the shock of group activity: shoulder shimmies, frantic hopping. Perspective | The first great Zoom music video has arrived 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

Demonstrating all manner of choreography — song-and-dance numbers, kung fu battles, high-speed chases — “The Rooftop” is frenzied, funny and knowing, drenched in lavish, often surreal, imagery. Movie Review: Surreal Song and Dance in ‘The Rooftop’ 2013-07-19T00:29:42Z

Drawing influence from the Italian absurdist Luigi Pirandello, Majoli uses his lens to capture the increasingly surreal geopolitical landscape of Europe today. A Tragedy Unfolds on Lesvos 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

The surreal story that unfolds over one historic day suggests that he may still not be fully awake. Review | ‘The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures’ is a story that John le Carré might have written for ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

Being on “Sesame” is simultaneously surreal and deeply comforting. How ‘Sesame Street’ Started a Musical Revolution 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

“Beautiful Place,” recorded by the New York City ska band Urban Blight, portrayed the city in the summer as a surreal carnival, swinging and sweating to a pogo beat. Review: David Yazbek and a Few Cheery Songs About Death 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Third Master might be a bit of a bore, but Mr. Yee surrounds him with so many surreal landscapes and witty action sequences — a combination of computers, wires and limber spines — that you’ll hardly notice. Review: You Quit? Think Again, ‘Sword Master’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

It is a world that will soon be largely dismantled, with some works headed toward a museum of fantasy and surreal art. Glimpsing a Soon-to-Vanish Surrealist World in Chelsea 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

He also happily combines naturalistic sounds with surreal ones, which he compares to realist filmmaking meeting Technicolor fantasies. How Producer Blake Mills Coaxes Musicians Into Pushing the Envelope 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

A ski resort in the middle of Tuscany is somewhat surreal. Tuscany Without the Crowds 2010-03-05T03:55:00Z

This spring, the Italian leather goods company Furla is selling handbags printed with anthropomorphic rabbits wearing afternoon coats in surreal landscapes and that fasten with rabbit-head clasps. Special Report: Designing for 'Alice in the Real World' 2010-03-04T13:01:00Z

That surreal energy carried over to some of ParisOffFestival’s other offerings. A Last Taste of Summer Theater, as Paris Heads Back to Work 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

It was also just a way to inject a bit of surrealism, a bit of surreal humor, into the show, which I was really keen to do in that episode. For the "Killing Eve" final season, Eve is "embracing a more Villanelle side of herself" 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

In 2009, he topped himself by bringing members of the Bolshoi Ballet to join him and Lady Gaga onstage for a surreal musical evening benefiting the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. | Francesco Vezzoli's Temple of Obsession 2011-02-09T19:30:37Z

Fields, all of whom skated along the edge of the surreal and willfully outrageous, doing pirouettes and blowing raspberries at anyone who tried, like yours truly, to call them great and significant. How the "South Park" guys became an American institution 2011-06-15T16:12:00Z

Instead the show barreled on to its mildly surreal conclusion: Mr. Botti announced that the New York Knicks legend Earl Monroe was in the audience, and invited him onstage to play the drums. Music Review: Chris Botti on Trumpet at the Beacon Theater 2012-07-25T21:34:55Z

The combined comic riffs of Wayne Sleep and Luke Heydon are at times so surreal, they seem like characters out of Lewis Carroll. Cinderella 2010-04-12T21:00:00Z

Most options lead to other options, a mobile maze of forking paths — some infuriating, some surreal, some poignant, several merely dull. Seeking Pandemic Theater? Your Call Will Be Answered Shortly 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Many of the images have a surreal flavor, some have a political vibe and some are just random subjects he encountered on a street. Music-themed gifts for the music lovers in your life 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

The plot of “I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness” is surreal but perhaps no more surreal than pregnancy itself. Review | Claire Vaye Watkins’s new novel approaches motherhood — with a torch 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

All these elements — past and present, real and surreal, serious and absurd — are stacked like some Olympic version of literary Jenga. Review | A.R. Moxon’s ‘The Revisionaries’ might be the weirdest novel of the year 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images It's always struck me as a strange, even surreal thing to do: to drag a living tree into your house once a year and set it up for worship. Inventing the Christmas Tree by Bernd Brunner – review 2012-12-14T08:00:01Z

He is conflicted in his new job, as he takes audiences on a journey into Uday's surreal world. Too early to talk Oscar? Not for Dominic Cooper 2011-08-04T19:05:35Z

Peck includes a chapter on Lear’s playfully surreal botanical drawings, such as his picture of the “Manypeeplia Upsidownia,” which shows tiny little men hanging like leaves from a plant’s stalk. For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

"You know, it's been remarkably surreal," Manson told me. Shirley Manson on the album that expanded Garbage's sound: "We got royally punished for it" 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

During the next seven years, as I partied with the region’s high rollers and influence peddlers, the gulf between privilege and poverty would only get wider and more surreal. T Magazine: Expatriot Games 2011-03-11T17:02:22Z

A surreal Arctic thriller, a classic Los Angeles hard-boiled procedural and an operatic Mafia melodrama: Choose one or try all three. ‘Fortitude,’ ‘Bosch,’ ‘Gomorrah’: TV Crime Never Sleeps 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

As she mops a black-and-white checkered floor, it becomes a surreal dreamscape. | 'Queen to Play': Chess as a Slow Dance of Seduction 2011-03-31T22:55:26Z

The latter film features a young MacLachlan as a sort of proto-Dale Cooper, the simple sort drawn into a world of alluring mystery that threatens at every turn to wreck his surreal goodness. The New Twin Peaks Needs Kyle MacLachlan 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Sometimes the series will be grounded in naturalism; sometimes it will turn suddenly and hilariously surreal. Louie is finally coming to the UK 2013-01-19T06:00:00Z

Is it surreal to see it reappear so dramatically and so close to home? ‘The Hot Zone’ Author Tracks Ebola’s Evolution 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

"Go on, it'll make the surreal absurdity of our 30 years complete." Chumbawamba to split up 2012-07-10T10:09:18Z

While he wanted to base the performance in reality, playing a ghost in a surreal fictional work gave him greater license to depart from the truth and create his own character. Stepping Into the Shoes of a Psychopath 2011-07-22T13:00:00Z

Does Mr. Luhrmann ever feel insecure when he’s creating these surreal extravaganzas? Baz Luhrmann Is Ready for Rhinestones, Cadillacs, Dr. Feelgood and a Svengali 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

The Winnipeg-born filmmaker is known for his experimental, black-and-white, sometimes silent, often strange films that tackle issues in a surreal way. ArtsBeat: Guy Maddin Looks Through the 'Keyhole' 2011-09-12T19:30:33Z

This affinity between human and bird inspired Sage Chandler’s “The Fowl Mood Show,” an Art League Gallery show whose outlook combines the down-home and the surreal. Review | In the galleries: This art will really speak to you 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

Just lower that sceptical eyebrow: nobody said the revival of Mark Frost and David Lynch’s surreal murder mystery was going to be easy viewing. Twin Peaks recap: episodes three and four – nobody said it would be easy viewing 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

Times art critic Christopher Knight was intrigued by the Shaw installation — “a surreal fun house” — but was less keen on the permanent collection, which, he says, “would benefit from some deeply informed professional guidance.” Essential Arts & Culture: The new Marciano museum, the Center Theatre Group at 50, LACMA's museum-rethink 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

In our visual series The Take, we asked photographers to explore this year’s cultural themes, capturing the everyday and the surreal. Our Favorite Arts Pictures of 2020 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

“He was cerebral, surreal and silly all at the same time,” said Ron Simon, curator of television and radio at the Paley Center for Media, which hosted a panel discussion about Kovacs last month. That Kovacs Touch: Comedy?s Lunatic Fringe 2011-05-06T23:24:49Z

How do you reconcile what are already the dystopic and surreal aspects of black people's experiences in America and around the world with the genre conventions of science fiction? "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

Kingdom takes embroidery and gives it a surreal twist, using it to create scenes — a floating figure hovering over a crowd of faceless women, for example — that are as strange as they are fantastical. Datebook: Art inspired by Octavia Butler, photos that get gender-ambiguous, revisiting a Bay Area group 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

In his review for The New York Times, Anthony Tommasini called it a “colorful, inventive, sometimes riotous, sometimes surreal new production,” and named it a Critic’s Pick. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Così Fan Tutte’ and ‘Power’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

In the course of the play’s 75-minute running time, their near-constant annotation of the interactions in a large family will surreally slide among images from football, baseball, racing, golf and other sports. ‘A Beautiful Day in November’ Opens at City Center 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

But their surreal irreverence takes the sanctity of high art down a notch by leavening it with humorous, folksy tableaux. Nathan Mabry's splendid drawings and smile-inducing sculptures 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Alden embraces the opera’s curious elements of Gallic humor, and these scenes take on a surreal quality. Classical & Opera Listings for May 8-14 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Edwards' poetry collection is a humorous account of working class life in the Welsh valleys that features surreal flights of pop culture fancy. Costa winner's poetry book sells out 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

And in Withers’s “The Ding Dongs,” a strange home invasion gives way to a surreal exploration of displacement and real estate. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

“Lady Dynamite,” whose first season lands on Netflix on Friday, is a layered, surreal sitcom of mental illness that takes up residence in her hilarious and unsettling psyche. Review: ‘Lady Dynamite’ Finds Surreal Humor in Mental Illness 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Cornell was known for producing intimate box assemblages that used scavenged objects in moody and surreal ways. For Betye Saar, there's no dwelling on the past; the almost-90-year-old artist has too much future to think about 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Here's a roundup: "The Skriker": A teenage single mom and her disturbed sister tangle with an insidious and vengeful spirit creature in Churchill's surreal, scary 1994 play. New local shows for kids, fantasy fans and cocktail sippers 2012-10-11T20:12:04Z

Mr. Jones lamented the “surreal” way that Dr. Fauci has nodded his head in news conferences while President Trump “blathers on.” For H.I.V. Survivors, a Feeling of Weary Déjà Vu 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

And the sensation of experiencing Surrealist painting and certain surreal dishes, both of which are designed to explode your mind, is nearly identical. Art and food to blow your mind: Where the Ferran Adriàs of the culinary world meet Salvador Dalí 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

Our conversation that morning about the possibilities of democratic participation made the day feel even more surreal as I watched the violent insurrection at the U.S. Perspective | The enduring moments of 2021, as told by Post reporters

There were still remnants from the last show, a surreal art installation by Sean M. Johnson, who literally suspended furniture from the ceiling and wall. New curator of Seattle University art galleries focuses on innovation, engagement 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

Of course, those surreal pieces were also showcases, sponsored or not, for two actual brands. Review: On ‘Late Show’ Premiere, Stephen Colbert Tries to Bring Big Back to Late Night 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Readers who enjoy the bizarre and surreal should also look for “The Man Who Walked Through Cracks,” Volume 5 of the complete stories of the gonzo and very funny R.A. Review | Beyond George R.R. Martin: A critic’s pick of science fiction and fantasy 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

The playwright described Sunday’s performance, with Ms. Valles in attendance, as “surreal.” ArtsBeat: ‘Bravest Woman in Mexico’ Sees Her Story on a New York Stage 2013-04-18T15:16:53Z

To stage those values, as well as amp up the fantasy, they called in Robert Wilson — Bob, to cognoscenti — the avant-garde theater director, who is a master of the surreal and the inexplicable. An Avant-Garde Director Sets the Stage for Hermès 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Here, Armitage melds contemporary dance with drag performance to create a surreal stew. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

Nor does “Million Dollar Arm” have the surreal exoticism and charm of its other obvious forerunner, “Slumdog Millionaire.” In ‘Million Dollar Arm,’ Baseball Talent From Overseas 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

In this brisk, wildly imaginative first novel by Hilary Leichter, the unnamed protagonist is a temp worker who trudges between 23 jobs that tip into the surreal. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Presented here as emerging from the mélodie tradition rather than, as usual, opera, Poulenc’s work, with a text by Jean Cocteau, felt more poetic and even surreal than a naturalistic narrative. Review: Anna Caterina Antonacci Charms With French Art Songs 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

My brother Sean is dancing for Rocket, and in the moment we were shooting the wide shot and dancing toward each other, it was surreal and beautiful and wonderful. James Gunn Always Knew How ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ Would End 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

Statovci’s surreal, arresting novel suggests that we must look anyway, and that love and identity have many reflections, many destinies, many languages. A Life Altered by War and Transmuted Into Fiction 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Its roof is supported by a phantasmagoric pair of giant concrete “trees” with swelling trunks and thick branches, the surreal forms contradicting the otherwise right-angled, Modernist structure. Arata Isozaki, Prolific Japanese Architect, Dies at 91 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

One of the most delightful things about “To Rome With Love” is how casually it blends the plausible and the surreal, and how unabashedly it revels in pure silliness. Movie Review: Woody Allen’s Latest, ‘To Rome With Love’ 2012-06-21T12:00:00Z

“When I think about that and this,” Ryan told me after the semifinals, “it seems surreal.” Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z

My novel is the latest in a long history of Oz homages, particularly in the magical, surreal and queer corners of culture. The Wizard of Oz at 80: how the world fell under its dark spell 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

“This is so surreal,” he said, looking out over the huge crowd. Internet Cat Video Film Festival, at Walker Art Center 2012-08-31T19:55:50Z

The song in which she makes this declaration is called “The Rose of Tacloban,” and along with the title number, it perfectly captures Mr. Byrne’s gift for setting Mrs. Marcos’s surreally sentimental words to music. Theater Review: David Byrne’s ‘Here Lies Love,’ at the Public Theater 2013-04-24T02:00:05Z

“It was surreal — I was shaking really hard,” Ms. Lipp said. A New Kind of ‘Hamilton’ Show, This Time on Lake Michigan 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Anderson and Osman are far from stupid, but Holmes's mind is just too quick and surreal for them. Rewind radio: Xfm; Moral Maze – review 2013-02-23T22:50:01Z

The battle scenes are short and intense, filled with surreal images of sudden destruction wrought from afar. In Hunt’s ‘Neverhome,’ natural poetry from a young wife who fights for the Union

Among the 85 films on social and political issues here, there's a plethora of surreal stories. This week's new film events 2012-10-12T23:05:39Z

This moment, like so many moments, feels surreal to me. The sex that helped us survive: Love and defiance in an Iranian prison 2014-03-19T23:00:00Z

Certainly there’s an element of the surreal in her ordinary sights and a sense of the transcendent emanating from the mundane. Photographer Julie Blackmon: Making suburbia sublime 2013-06-27T21:15:17Z

By turns, shocking, surreal and revelatory, this innovative film blurs fact and fiction and leaves you with many questions. This week's new film events 2013-06-22T05:00:15Z

Expect things to get even more surreal as the acclaimed “The Worst Person in the World” finally makes its way into American theaters on Feb. 4. He’s a Doctor. He’s an Actor. He’s an Indie Heartthrob. 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Ms. Posnick focuses on the evocative, often surreal images that accompany the magazine’s beauty coverage, as well as some of its portraits. Does a Changing of the Guard at Vogue Signal More Change Ahead? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

“Dynamite” stars Bamford as kinda-sorta herself, but the episodes are fragmented in both time and structure: Some tell one story, some tell several, some include surreal parodies, some play things closer to ordinary life. What You Should Watch Each Day This Week: ‘The Detour’ and ‘Lady Dynamite’ 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Chinn described the evening as a "surreal experience", adding: "It helps so much when you go to the money men if they have some faint idea who you are." Oscars 2013: Daniel Day-Lewis collects record third Oscar with a smile 2013-02-25T22:43:24Z

Bangkok’s reality is both real and surreal enough without entering the realm of science fiction. Two Thai Novelists Explore Bangkok’s Swirl of Remembering and Forgetting 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

To museum-goers, he was beloved for his paintings, prints and drawings — surreal yet expressionist fragments of daily life in the Oaxacan country. Francisco Toledo Embodied the Activist Soul of Oaxaca 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

And there are far more surreal story lines that involve Sally as a vast flying machine and another one of woodsmen wandering inside the body of Jefferson. ‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines his illicit affair 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

“Wonderland” transforms Alice’s surreal wanderings into a contemporary parable about reconnecting with your inner child and other watery truisms of the self-help industrial complex. | 'Wonderland': There?s No Place Like Queens 2011-04-18T02:01:04Z

Loose and occasionally surreal, the film was made for just $2 million, with much of the filming done in Levinson's Connecticut home. At 74, Al Pacino is still chasing that next great role 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

It was surreal and a bit unnerving as we led four mostly blind and elderly female elephants on a muddy, uneven path, trying to keep our balance while avoiding their feet. 2 weeks, 1 country and a world of wonders in Thailand 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Is it surreal when you get what you want in this business? Disney-esque and demented: Ti West on how his slasher flick "Pearl" compares to "Rocky Horror" 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z

Yes, we understand that this is a musical, a story with surreal and fantastical elements. ‘In the Heights’ and Colorism: What Is Lost When Afro-Latinos Are Erased 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

A lot of the most surreal things came from his Paul Dinello's mind, and all of us trying to make each other laugh. Amy Sedaris on Her Hilarious New Show and Jerri Blank 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

“I Am Radar” is a big, fat, enticing-looking epic that begins with a hauntingly surreal moment. Review: In Reif Larsen’s ‘I Am Radar,’ an Odyssey of Exploding Particles 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

As the play’s narrative becomes increasingly surreal and fragmented, the actors inhabit a variety of roles, not all of them human. At Salzburg Festival, Directing Slow and Fast 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

A tree sprouts from another cranium, echoing the surreal imagery of one of the artist’s three pictures on display in the gallery’s basement group show. Review | In the galleries: Printmakers’ works are anything but two-dimensional 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

It’s about time we got a surreal gay comedy; the naturalistic kind has been running out of steam. Review: In ‘Breeders,’ Parenting as a (Literal) Cage Match 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

Where Whistler’s room speaks to a golden age of business titans, Waterston’s space — with dripping gold, broken pottery shards and cracked shelves — is a surreal snapshot of the what-comes-next. Is that paint on the gallery rug? New show marks major shift at the Sackler. 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Then suddenly there's a clearing--and the surreal sight of a dozen enormous buildings erupting from the plateau in blistering shades of pink, orange and yellow. Bungle In The Jungle 2011-07-27T22:00:00Z

Poor them, you might think, but these audiences ought to have developed a keen appreciation of the surreal. Rewind TV: Hunted; Monroe; Arena: The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour; Best Possible Taste: the Kenny Everett Story; Exposure: the Other Side of Jimmy Savile; Welcome to India – review 2012-10-06T23:05:46Z

There I was, for instance, being harangued by a fake chef wielding a real knife in “Houseworld,” in which the audience wanders through a house full of odd characters, teasing out a surreal underlying story. Starring Me! A Surreal Dive Into Immersive Theater 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

In a way, the scene over the past four days felt doubly normal: normal for pandemic times and also normal for Telluride, which is also to say more than a little surreal. At the Telluride Film Festival, Both Magic and Normalcy 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

But what if the world itself was surreal — if surrealism was not an exception, but a rule? China Mieville's 'The Last Days of New Paris' makes the surreal real 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

In the experience that Kayne articulates in the show, she recognized her own surreal isolation. He Made a Show About Grief. She Saw Herself In It. 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

And unfortunately — by a surreal act of shoe fetishism — clicks her shoes together and is back to where she belongs. Oz Revisited – Part 3: A Parable of Empowerment 2013-09-18T15:30:10Z

The filmmaker Charles Burnett paints a surreal portrait of a family in this poetic drama, which was Burnett’s third feature. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Coded Bias’ and ‘Tina’ 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Sticking a dagger in conformity in under two minutes, this sharp, peremptory film turns the tension between its loose, surreal line drawings and rigidly uniform dialogue into zany fun. ‘The 20th Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Charming, Safe Collection 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

The scene was somewhat surreal given Houston’s shocking death only earlier in the day. Whitney Houston Remembered at Clive Davis Gala 2012-02-12T15:07:26Z

Critic's view: "Takes male personality types with which we're all familiar, and adds a streak of full-bodied surreal madness to the mix". Edinburgh comedy award 2011 shortlist: who's who? 2011-08-24T16:28:03Z

It lopes along like a highbrow episode of “Louie,” a series of silly, surreal, confident riffs about humiliations, minor and major. An Unassuming Heroine Envies Her Harvard Classmates the Confidence of Their Convictions 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Last week, Swift, who has cited Adams’s music as inspiring her own songwriting, called the whole thing “surreal and dreamlike.” Haters Gonna Hate: Listening to Ryan Adams's "1989" 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

And each – either directly or indirectly – tackles some aspect of the coalition's cuts to public services, whether it's Lucy Kirkwood's surreal story of a grandmother being sold, or Mark Ravenhill's drama about students and education. This week's arts diary 2011-03-15T22:31:01Z

The surreal air defined the entire presentation, as dancers moved by bending forward and back on Japanese “geta” clogs. Longtime Kenzo designers stage final show in Paris 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z

When they are suddenly confined to their homes, surreal things start to happen. Coronavirus cabin fever: the best celebrities to follow, from Robbie Williams to Florence Pugh 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

It was a disorienting, slightly surreal scene, like a “Brady Bunch” dream sequence. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 1: New Wigs, New Family 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

Plus, he is a film star playing a film star, a gormless, 1950s version of himself, in a film that is partly about the surreal production-line nature of Hollywood’s golden age. George Clooney interview: ‘Donald Trump is a xenophobic fascist’ 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

A vivid, slightly surreal history of “the great minor city of America,” starting 500 million years ago and continuing up through Timothy McVeigh, Kevin Durant and the Flaming Lips. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Whether she’s discussing her surreal collage paintings or her humanoid sculptures, which often push against the traditional roles of women in art, she believes any attempt to demystify her work risks flattening it. Wangechi Mutu Brings Her Sculptures to Storm King 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Distinctive lighting by James F. Ingalls illuminates the mercurial mood swings in this surreal yet satisfying production. Review: Spirited, sexy version of 'Master Builder' 2013-05-20T23:43:09Z

Bruno thought it was surreal and cartoonish – it was an unexpected delight. Strictly Come Dancing 2015: week three – as it happened 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

This part of the film allows a glimpse into "normal" life, which surreally seems to co-exist side by side with the terror in the jungle. Review: 'War Witch' is a genre benchmark 2013-03-06T23:24:08Z

Etchells’s surreal humor offers new entry points to new modes of empathy for a demographic that’s much discussed, much maligned, but little understood. Review | In ‘Endland,’ Tim Etchells finds squalid humor in post-Brexit Britain 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

Wong Ping’s animations give us a glimpse into a strange inner world — a world of hapless and depraved characters caught in a sequence of surreal plot twists. Wong Ping’s Candy-Colored, Taboo-Smashing World 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

But rising through it, rather surreally, is a climbing wall. Myplace: Putting the youth back in youth centre 2010-04-11T21:05:00Z

“This is the most surreal day of my life,” he said. Grammy winners, losers and oddities 2012-02-13T01:37:00Z

The novel’s surreal conceit treats beauty as an absolute, all-or-nothing quality. ‘Unfortunate Importance of Beauty,’ by Amanda Filipacchi 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

There are surreal scenes of nightmare and menace, but glorious moments of joy, too. Review: ‘Flight’ Has No Live Actors. But Its Story of Two Afghan Boys Feels So Real. 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

The boats occasionally bump into each other, breaking the silence of a surreal floating canopy. 12 Artists On: Climate Change 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

There are plenty of moments, even in lesser songs, when instruments merge in shimmering brilliance and voices stack up in surreal stereo fireworks. Camila Cabello and Harry Styles, Teen-Pop Alumni, Think Bigger 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

“The surreal judgment of the court in the UK will not change my fight to tell the truth and I confirm that I plan to appeal,” he wrote. Johnny Depp says he has been asked to resign from Fantastic Beasts franchise 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

In both, they build imaginative worlds that veer suddenly from surreal to sincere and back again in surprising and satisfying ways. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

So far, Noah said venturing out to prepare for his Grammy hosting duties around other people has been “amazing” and “surreal.” For Trevor Noah, Grammy Awards a return to in-person hosting 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

In a poetic, surreal manner, the play looks at how black men are raised and, too often, die. FringeNYC, a Grab Bag That Calls for Intuition, Not to Mention Dumb Luck 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

As a substitute for firsthand interviews, she quotes the girls’ surreal internet chat-speak. Aggro-Texting From the Syrian Jihad 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

“Seeing myself actually in it — like physically, visibly in it — is so surreal,” Chou said, after she was finished shooting for the day. ‘Harry Potter’ and the Prisoners of Quarantine 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Creepily, gorgeously surreal Joshua Tree National Park was Stop 1, and our approach wound us clockwise around the 1,234-square-mile park’s perimeter. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

I’ve seen it through the feedback we get from our stores, when a woman takes it from the hanger and doesn’t get afraid of the color and the surreal context. During London Week, Mary Katrantzou Talks About Prints 2012-02-20T19:06:15Z

Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive Over three decades of bewildering confusion, my personal relationship with the British Board of Film Classification – as exhibitor, distributor, producer and punter – has been turbulent, fraught and surreal. Putting the F-word in BBFC 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z

A surreal musical revue featuring assassins and assassin wannabes from the pages of history, the enterprise is buoyed by Sondheim’s typically transcendent music. Ambitious 'Assassins' at Pico Playhouse can't overcome the show's peculiarities 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

It’s more akin to the fond burlesques of Guy Maddin, or the surreal lampooning of “The Kids in the Hall.” ‘The Twentieth Century’ Review: The Great Weird North 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

As “The Babadook” proceeds, ratcheting up both the suspense and the odd, surreal comedy that accompanies but does not diminish it, every boundary in Amelia and Sam’s world seems to collapse. In ‘The Babadook,’ a Frightfully Unwelcome Guest 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

“I mean, shows close all the time — I get that. But what happened with ‘Janis’ was surreal.” How ‘A Night With Janis Joplin’ Was Suddenly Canceled 2014-04-25T21:54:37Z

I’m not interested in watching absurd surreal horror. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

"It's still kind of surreal to me, I think," Brown said. California triplets are pregnant at same time: ‘A dream come true’ 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

If art imitates life, horror fiction is a great mimic, predicting and exploring the frightening and surreal realities of the contemporary world. Where Evil Lurks 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

“The moment Angela arrived at the altar, the gravity of what was happening became surreal,” Mr. Swift said. They Fell for Each Other Over a Fall Lunch 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

In two days, this surreal ritual was to be recreated in the debut of “The Heart of the Matter Circus and Pageant,” part of the 60-year-old company’s season of Sunday shows. At 89, Still Making Art (and Bread) With a Message 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z

Soul singer Laura Mvula, who is classically trained, said: "It's totally surreal for me, it's such an occasion to play with the orchestra." Urban and classical to mix at Proms 2013-08-09T23:30:50Z

Adjmi also surreally includes a philosophical talking sheep, played by Woolly stalwart Sarah Marshall with splendidly calibrated blend of whimsy and foreboding. A mod ‘Marie’ in bikini and wigs at Woolly

"This is surreal," Ocean wrote on his blog last month. Beyonc? expected to release 'groundbreaking' album in June 2011-04-04T12:29:18Z

The coast looked surreal in the mist as we motored south with three boards stacked in the bow of the launch. In Northwest Colombia, Whales, Waves and a Dancing Bird 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Populated mostly by children and female figures, these vivid color photographs bring a surreal spin to the ordinary. Seattle arts: picks for fall 2013 2013-09-11T20:35:01Z

Advocates of the film include Paul Thomas Anderson, Louis CK and Boots Riley, who took the voice-dubbing concept to an even more surreal level in his 2017 satire Sorry to Bother You. How Hollywood feted the black power movement – and fell foul of the FBI 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

A surreal silence had washed through the lorry. Fan Flaherty Trade 2011-07-22T22:01:10Z

An opening montage, featuring many shots that will recur throughout the narrative, is practically surreal, flashing images of destruction and splatters of green liquid. ‘New Order’ Review: A Revolutionary Nightmare or a Recurring Dream? 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

This is only the start of a surreal comedy whose endless visual imagination matches its conceptual wit. Review: God Is Alive and Crabby, According to ‘The Brand New Testament’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The piece, which recreates one the artist first executed in Munich in 1968, exudes a slightly moist, muffling atmosphere and affords a sight so surreally, deliriously startling as to be simultaneously ridiculous and sublime. Walter De Maria, Artist on Grand Scale, Dies at 77 2013-07-27T01:54:42Z

These differences were intriguing and touching, but for me the teens' performance fell far short of the seniors', which was rich in surreal comedy and human interest. Judith Mackrell on Pina Bausch's Kontakthof 2010-04-07T21:15:00Z

“Space//Space” takes a surreal turn, however, when Lumus wakes up from a three-year slumber to discover he’s turning into a woman. Theater Review: ‘Space//Space’ by Banana Bag & Bodice at Collapsable Hole 2012-06-17T22:09:07Z

And some of the productions that made strong artistic statements were the most radical ones, like Willy Decker’s surreal staging of Verdi’s “La Traviata,” scheduled to return in December. Let’s Talk About Risk at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Two or three of the Outputs prove less surreal but more distressing, as they give voice to the suicidal and suffering. Rumsfeld, Rice and Gonzales make cameos in a dark, comedic novel 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

Salt Horse's surreal spectacles skirt rather than embrace conventional narrative, providing full immersions in the dream dimensions of the mind. You can watch dance this weekend til you drop 2011-05-10T00:53:04Z

I think it's more surrealism that is baked in there as well, and how it is surreal sometimes to experience racism, whether in America and elsewhere . . . and how it does feel horrific and absurd. When "Atlanta" Met the Northman: Executive producer Stefani Robinson breaks down the season finale 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

The resulting turmoil, which echoed around cable news throughout the night and announced itself in the next day’s papers, felt “surreal” to Corker, as if he were watching it happen to someone else. Bob Corker is free to speak his mind about Trump. If he could only make it up. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

The reality of active-shooter fears in American schools takes on a surreal quality in this documentary. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ and ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby’ 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

What we said: Colossal, cataclysmic, delirious, preposterous – and always surreally entertaining in the now well-established Marvel movie tradition. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

“That was all very surreal … to hear very specific elements of my childhood mentioned before the Senate and the world.” A writer mined his ’80s adolescence in the D.C. suburbs. Then came the Kavanaugh hearings. 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

“The surreal judgement of the court in the U.K. will not change my fight to tell the truth and I confirm that I plan to appeal,” Depp said Friday. Johnny Depp will exit the ‘Fantastic Beasts’ franchise 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

Christmas music was piped in through the stadium, of course, taking on its echo-y acoustics and interspersed with the occasional surreal sound of a train whistle outside. Is Enchant Christmas’ skating trail and light maze at Safeco Field enchanting? It’s all in the expectations 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

People who are interested in the British monarchy are generally attracted to the almost surreal commitment to decorum. How Princess Diana Created a New Era of Celebrity 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

The cinematic excerpts, taken from other films made by Mr. Ponthus, also proved a surreal, nonlinear counterpart to the music. Review: Festival for Contemporary Performance Opens With Film, Boulez and Chaos 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

You go into Mondo Hitchcock, which is sort of halfway between surreal and intellectual and vivid, not dull. Love Story: A Q&A with Singer-Songwriter Robyn Hitchcock 2013-03-05T20:02:08Z

The arrangements reclaim the mixture of old-timey and surreal that Mr. Waits has long savored, with twangy guitars, pushy horns, woozy saloon piano and drumming that conjures roadhouses, music halls and military tattoos. Arts & Leisure: Tom Waits?s New Album, ?Bad as Me? 2011-10-20T11:01:09Z

Mr. Stamaty tattoos every available surface in his books with surreal and witty detail. Critic’s Notebook: A Splendid Little Book Club Has Ended Its Run 2013-04-24T21:59:48Z

Video of images by the Cuban artist Raul Speek provided a dizzying, kaleidoscopic background to the music: his style is vividly exotic, verging on erotic, and best when its fantastic realism becomes surreal. Afrodisiac ? review 2010-10-18T21:45:00Z

There’s a solid argument to be made that Florida is our most surreal state. Love at First Sight and Other Disasters: Stories From Karen Russell 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

In beer geekdom, there's no other release event this big or this surreal. Serious suds: Where to get 'cult' beer Pliny the Younger 2011-03-01T23:54:03Z

When I see that moment on screen that it feels sort of surreal and mildly disturbing. “Death is how I make my living”: David Ury has died onscreen in almost every role he’s played 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

It’s an odd collision of styles – German high romanticism meets Hollywood glitz – but Hal Mohr’s cinematography is astonishing, a surreal visual fantasy of dancing sprites and flying unicorns. The best Shakespeare films – ranked! 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

The fat, bulbous-headed creatures drift surreally down a long banquet table, bringing gourmet platters for the hungry siblings, aided by a fish-headed butler. | 'Hansel and Gretel': At the Met, an Opera That Serves Children 2009-12-17T06:03:00Z

Things became even more surreal when they hooked up with Stanley and his guitarist on Skype. Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth' 2012-08-25T23:05:50Z

Critical response “A surreal fable” showing “colossal” imagination but dissolving “into a welter of confusing language and imagery.” My First Produced Play? Ah, I Remember It Well. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Add to that a surreal playfulness whirling around a core of imminent if enigmatic loss — as well as an ever-shifting story that glides along like dream logic — and you have Ruiz’s unpredictable but rewarding farewell. ‘Night Across the Street’: a surreal, rewarding farewell 2013-04-25T20:44:45Z

Over the past weeks, art and life have sometimes dovetailed so closely that it was easy to hope that the surreal quality of our times would fade into a comforting made-for-TV resolution. ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 12: In the Finale, Carrie Discovers a New Adversary 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

He once worked at the Neptune Theatre in the U District during its movie-palace days, so “it’s really surreal, being on the other side of the screen,” he said. Sundance Film Festival 2013 2013-01-10T00:22:39Z

The effect is surreal, but not as creepy as you might think. In L.A. galleries now: A celebration of black women, a cheeky take on living with disability 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Right now, it’s a bit surreal, because we are done with it, and yet we’re in the middle of all this publicity, and there’s a lot of celebrating. Anna Gunn on the End of ‘Breaking Bad’ 2013-08-07T19:49:17Z

Usually we like to have people who are doing absurd, surreal bits – that's our cup of tea. Kooky queen of comedy 2011-07-16T23:06:31Z

And the worlds are so surreal and horrific or thrilling. "I'm not tough": Jennifer Jason Leigh on her career playing challenging roles nothing like herself 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

As a species we’ve been having surreal dreams since …well this is somewhat of a generalization but I assume that I’m right, unless there’s something in the water. Love Story: A Q&A with Singer-Songwriter Robyn Hitchcock 2013-03-05T20:02:08Z

Furniture also is central to the modestly surreal assemblages of Ruth Lozner, whose offerings include three chairs nestled together into a single piece. In the galleries: Washington from on high, as it was and as it was meant to be 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Marine veteran of the war in Afghanistan, the entire experience — the early morning car ride, the story you’re reading and how I came to work on his television show — is equal parts surreal and ridiculous. Finding solace through helping a TV show understand war 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

Buddy the elf was also surreal because at the time, it felt like it could go either way. SXSW 2015: Will Ferrell Answers Readers' Questions 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a surreal, parodic script for an infomercial, narrating a journey from a series of clinical spaces, called “viewing rooms,” to a field filled with cows “gazing intently with their huge beautiful fringed eyes.” 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

It's surreal when I arrive – like stepping off the plane on another planet. Big in Belgium: the British celebrities you've never heard of 2013-03-15T18:00:00Z

He wants to shake them up and leave them thinking about his genre-defying, surreal apocalyptic thriller. Darren Aronofsky on 'mother!' : 'We want to shake audiences' 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

The view is hauntingly surreal, the kind that one might be tempted to call priceless — but lucky for you, it’s not. In South Africa, Fine-Art Landscapes for Postcard Prices 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

News that the surreal video, released on Thursday, was a portrait of the day she thought she saw her dreams slipping away from her when she was dropped from her first record label. Lady Gaga's 14-minute music video puzzles, pleases 2011-12-02T19:04:13Z

The unique natural context is highlighted by the fragrance of the greenery, which create a surreal and dreamlike environment. T Magazine: You Know You're a Milan Insider When . . . 2010-10-15T17:55:00Z

It’s both surreal and analytic as the dancers become distinct, individual. The Dance Laboratory of an Existential Fidgeter 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

Louie is that sitcom, and last night’s season finale, “New Year’s Eve,” encapsulated the hilarious, surreal, openhearted ways this season has pursued that quest. Louie Watch: Yin and Yangtze 2012-09-28T19:03:18Z

The episode, "When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist" is quite good, and a little surreal when you know the players. The real-life “Modern Love” author whose love life Amazon dramatized speaks out 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

That convention feels even more surreal when extended to the characters. Review | Finally, a novel that captures the inanity of the Trump era. It isn’t pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

As my mother has passed through certain age milestones—sixty-five, seventy, seventy-five, eighty—she’s described the experience as surreal; the numbers don’t at all reflect how she feels inside. Severed 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

The surreal dissonance of the gesture was summed up when a reporter asked the president if the book was his Bible. As Images of Pain Flood TV, ‘Where Is Our Leader?’ 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

If there is such a thing as a cozy dystopia, that’s what “Zoo” is: an Animal Planet spectacle for people who don’t like reality television but who aren’t in the mood for anything too surreal. Review: ‘Zoo’ Is a James Patterson Novel Brought to TV 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

The music and sound by Bruce Odland serve both to establish the surreally foreboding mood and to keep you moored in the otherwise drifting timescape of the narratives. From the Schlump With the Shiv, Two Plays Turned Podcasts 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

It is the sense of familiar territory made surreal, of easiness gradually becoming a choke hold, that gives “Room” its echoing power. ‘Is This a Room’ Review: Why’d She Blow the Whistle? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

A hospital was only metres from where thousands were murdered every day; surreal. Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death by Otto Dov Kulka – review 2013-01-25T07:00:02Z

Drawing and painting and random found objects find their way into the bright work of this New York-based artist, known for fusing surreal landscapes, abstract doodles and cartoon-like figures. Datebook: Brazil artist books, underground photos & Guerrilla Girls 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

You could say surreal comedy has an element of psychosis," says Molloy, "because it's disconnected from reality. Funny, haha: the comedy of mental health issues 2010-10-06T21:15:00Z

From the first, the ballet conjures a suspended, surreal condition. ‘Sunset, o639 Hours,’ a BalletX World Premiere 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

The impulse to virtuosity, to elaborate and refine and outdo earlier work, might explain the slightly surreal “Battle of the Nudes,” by Pollaiuolo, an engraving that was influential throughout Europe. Review | Getty exhibition shows how the naked body became a subject for art 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

In one instance Raymond issues a needlessly long set of instructions to revue dancers sprayed with gold that recalls the more surreal flights of fancy of Norfolk's premier late night broadcaster. Sundance film festival 2013: The Look of Love - first look review 2013-01-20T11:27:42Z

He suggested this zone be lined with "a surreal and overscale series of birdhouses and nesting sites". Team recommended for Navy Pier redesign 2012-03-15T11:00:00Z

Others get surreal — one episode features a nail salon owner who responds to negative customer feedback with sequences of emojis so bizarre and elaborate that they border on sinister. 6 Podcasts to Make You Feel Good 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

Amid all the surreal imagery and the munching on adorable critters, here's another twist: This girl, Molly, is already dead. Giant Sparrow's 'Edith Finch' unveils a life-and-death game with no guns 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

After posing for photographers, the Fox News anchor Bret Baier said: “This is a little surreal, to go from nothing to everything. But it feels really good. It feels like Washington is back.” Washington Society Steps Back Out 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

Similarly drawing attention to overlooked nooks and crannies of public space, artist Mark Folds makes what he dubs "outstallations", adding surreal touches to unassuming street furniture. This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

About a minute in, Yorke’s voice moves to the forefront, and he unleashes that surreal, speeding wail—as frantic, careening, and hopeless as a moth zooming endless circles around a streetlight. Radiohead Thinks the Internet Is Turning Us All Into Creeps 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

King, once an extra in a TV show where the main character finds a body in a creek, said the whole experience felt surreal. New Jersey Uber driver describes being getaway car for alleged killer and accomplice 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

Using a window of his Boston home as the aperture, he projected the house across the street into his living room, then captured the surreal scene on film. Art Show Celebrates 75 Years of the Golden Gate 2012-06-10T04:27:04Z

And so “WWAY Health” was born — a fictitious self-help service that allowed Yanya, in surreal and darkly hilarious interludes spaced throughout the album, to lampoon modern wellness culture. Nilüfer Yanya’s Music Is a Family Affair 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

It is pretty surreal,” he told a TV critics meeting. Jason Biggs savors his lasting ‘American Pie’ connection 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

New York City playwright David Goldfarb, whose credits include the book of the 2006 musical satire "Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me," clearly knows that surreal territory, too. 'Cradle and All': Baby rocks couple's world 2012-02-08T00:36:04Z

Nostalgia for epic poems and movies from my high school years aside, this singular actor, auteur and author makes books and films that are at once thought-provoking, visually arresting and surreal. What exactly is it? Crispin Glover’s surreal, cinematic vision of the big, bad world 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Blunt announcements, startling confessions, mean little snipes… Errors of logic are subtly teased and bad spelling highlighted, the exchanges transformed into surreal little plays. Adam Buxton: 'I was called a smarmy, greased-up dwarf' 2013-05-11T17:00:03Z

There's a surreal sense, a more political observational one, and certainly countries have a mainstream sense of humour which refers to Angela Merkel, or national football stars. Comedy without borders: Eddie Izzard and the language of standup 2013-04-24T11:00:05Z

“When you see it in reality and it’s exactly as pictured, it’s surreal.” Noted: With 3-D Printing, Clothing That Leaves Out the Sewing Machine 2013-12-13T22:22:25Z

President Obama recently announced that U.S. forces will withdraw from Afghanistan in 2016, ending a conflict that began as a hunt for Osama bin Laden in the surreal weeks after 9/11. 'Korengal' shows the lasting effects of war on U.S. soldiers 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

“It’s so surreal to imagine that just two months ago a whole family died here.” Ukrainians Turn to Diaries for Solace, and to Share Life in Wartime 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

More creepy is the Hall of World Leaders, a surreal group of models of Churchill, De Gaulle, Golda Meir and others. All the presidents' libraries 2010-10-26T10:00:00Z

After years of struggling and fine-tuning his comedy routine, Martin developed a surreal performance-art style of stand-up that captured the zeitgeist of the 1970s. Steve Martin on eve of his AFI award: 'I never had a vision for my career' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

In a nutshell, his assessment was that he had made too many concessions in the film’s original 1979 release, and that the march of time had blunted some of its surreal edge. Francis Ford Coppola: 'Apocalypse Now is not an anti-war film' 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

The loaded verbal byplay of Gus and Ben, interrupted by surreal demands mysteriously conveyed by a dumbwaiter, are semiabstract, open to interpretation. Theater review: 2 excellent one-acts open ACT Pinter Festival 2012-07-30T22:51:02Z

“It was bizarre, surreal. But I was very touched. He has very artful taste, and he’s always seeking out new points of view.” The Planets, the Stars and Brad Pitt 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

The most surreal moment was a black mother telling me she let her daughter sign up for Irish dance classes because she saw me. Experience: I'm an Irish dancing TikTok star 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

The art world, as always, is keeping it surreal. Roundup: Marina Abramovic's no-kid policy, Boyle Heights gentrification (again), good design and affordable housing 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

Drawing its dancers mostly from PNB and Spectrum, it wields ballet technique in a modern way to create deft comedy, dark intensity and surreal visuals. Seattle dancemakers claim a spot on national stage 2012-11-20T22:18:06Z

Scenes of stolen ostriches strutting haughtily on the village streets add a bizarre element of comedy and insert a seam of surreal humor that is a hallmark of Central European film. | 'Gypsy': ‘Gypsy,’ by Martin Sulik, Fictional Portrait of the Roma 2012-06-26T21:20:58Z

Catherine Girardi’s lighting adds clarity as the narrative glides through time and degrees of the surreal. ‘In a Word’: A poetic, rock-solid look at grief and loss by the Hub Theatre 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Their views of truncated, mediated and sometimes wholly artificial Italian landscapes give credence to the idea that, as Mr. Ghirri put it, “photography is already surreal.” Art Review: Out-Magritting Magritte, or at Least Coming Close 2011-08-11T21:37:51Z

This sounds melodramatic – it was not the end of the world – but it is important to recognise the surreal and eerie sci-fi image of London in these pictures of the rioting and looting. London burning: history just went sci-fi 2011-08-08T11:46:42Z

The journey is surreal, the geography rather incidental. A Tip of the Hat to ‘Beach Blanket Babylon’ 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Maybe it will be more effective if the story is a surreal fable, only half-told. What the fuzzy animals of Netflix's "The House" can teach "Don't Look Up" about climate anxiety 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Weeks into quarantine, New York is a strange combination of the normal and not-normal, the ordinary and the surreal, the mundane and the unnerving. Coronavirus Notebook: Finding Solace, and Connection, in Classic Books 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

His is a landscape in which story not only transforms us but the very world that we traverse into a landscape of surreal juxtapositions, where the naturalistic yields to the fantastic and back again. David B. continues the secret history of 'Incidents in the Night' 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Hilarious, beguiling and mind-bending, this surreal satire is a book like no other. Shelf Talk | Cult classics: nightmare visions 2011-05-27T16:26:13Z

Many South Korean readers initially found the novel to be bizarre: a dark, surreal tale of a woman who refuses to eat meat and descends into madness. How the bestseller 'The Vegetarian,' translated from Han Kang's original, caused an uproar in South Korea 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

Hence the Godard-influenced vignette-style layering of authentic photos that place the film's events firmly into their historical context, a choppy narrative timeline and, rather more surreally, a talking dog. Absolute beginners 2011-07-15T23:03:00Z

St. Vincent’s albums have been show-offy in the best way: Lean or orchestral, intricate or blunt, they place each song in its own surreal domain. New Music: Beck’s New Album Is ‘Morning Phase’ 2014-02-24T22:48:45Z

Mr. Darrah’s savage production kept the border between the real and the surreal deliberately unclear. An Opera Festival’s Local Focus 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Such magic often flits around the edges of “Hold a Wolf,” yet I count only two stories that entail something truly surreal. Review | ‘I Hold A Wolf by the Ears’ offers the greatest distillation of Laura van den Berg’s talents to date 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Anno’s style as a filmmaker is sui generis and it’s often impossible to tell what is awkward and what is poetically surreal. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

His art is at once a touching act of hero worship, a surreal historical document, and a freakish and deathly capturing of the elusive stuff of life and creativity. Mini artists' studios 2011-08-28T19:01:01Z

However the series is paced, the surreal imagery and moments of dark humor that enlivened the films will be further apart. Review: ‘The Purge,’ Tamed for Television 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

"It was right before 'Good Will Hunting' came out, and it was the first moment my life got really surreal," he said, accepting his award. The Carpetbagger: Things We Learned at the Gothams, Crowdsourcing Edition 2012-11-27T16:15:27Z

The night of my “incident” was, in many ways, totally surreal. Stacy Keach Had a Heart Attack Onstage. Now, the Show Goes On. 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Where Balthus strove for academic precision in his drawings, Pierre drew more freely and more surreally. Pierre Klossowski Drawings Explore Eroticism and More 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The quest for the poetically surreal likewise accounts for the acquisition of the otherwise utterly different “Orpheus Charming the Animals” by Aelbert Cuyp. Art Review: Dutch Masterpieces, Assembled by Art Lovers 2011-04-22T11:00:04Z

It was platonically unremarkable, which lent an almost surreal normality to the proceedings. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z

It is the most surreal, wild, campy thing. The Return of the Cannes Film Festival 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wolf, in his feature film debut, generates a few genuine scares but he doesn’t yet have the style to pull off the kind of lightly surreal comic thriller that he’s trying for. | 'In My Sleep': ?In My Sleep?: No Rest for a Busy Masseur 2010-04-30T00:35:00Z

Lightning struck twice for Comedy Central’s best new show of 2014, as the second season built on its confidence and surreal humor. Here Are the Best TV Shows of 2015 So Far 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

She’s a neighbor, and I go over there every couple of weeks and we plan her closet and it’s surreal. The Stylist Behind Grimes’s Futuristic Look 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

“I was raised in this surreal industrial landscape that is still the landscape of my dreams,” he told Rolling Stone, “and some of my nightmares.” 10 Reasons for Theater Lovers to Leave New York in 2014 2014-01-08T17:28:02Z

This year, surreal showbiz satire "Birdman" leads the film nominees with seven nods in the comedy/musical film categories while coming-of-age tale "Boyhood" has five nominations in the drama film categories. Blunders begone! Golden Globes burnish Hollywood credibility 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

When political reality starts to get surreal, writing politically themed TV becomes a lot more demanding. Jimmy Kimmel on Legal Pot in Canada: ‘They Must Really Want Seth Rogen Back’ 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

"Playing at the Super Bowl it seems so surreal," said group leader Will.I.Am. Black Eyed Peas set to bring sport anthems to Super Bowl 2011-02-04T00:02:59Z

It’s a city that’s in the middle of the desert and surreal with its Airstream trailers and tepees. Hitting the Road With Carla Gugino 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

With a flicker of lights, Stone’s hyper-realism turns surreal: The view outside is no longer a Parisian cityscape but the open sea. Opera Roars Back With Dueling Wagner Premieres 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

This pensive, surreal novel employs a decidedly ontological approach to the ghost story. Hell House 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

Still, in the case of the Mona Lisa theft, “the story itself is so weird and surreal that I’m sure many spectators will think that it’s mostly fiction,” he said. Picasso’s Life Inspires Films in Spain 2012-08-18T00:01:38Z

He traces the shifting values we place on the sort of transformations — subtle, grand, surreal, satirical — these painters worked on reality, while examining the mysterious dynamic between individual artists’ gifts and an emerging cultural zeitgeist. Review: In Julian Barnes’s ‘Keeping an Eye Open,’ Paintings Worth a Thousand Words 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

As well as Family Guy, a surreal, often crude cartoon sitcom about the dysfunctional Griffin family, MacFarlane devised its spin-off The Cleveland Show and the satirical series American Dad. MacFarlane croons Broadway tunes 2012-08-28T08:24:20Z

But there were moments nonetheless, authentic or just weird bursts of humanity that seemed to kick through the stiff, the strange and the surreal. 2010-01-18T13:18:00Z

The resulting pieces, which sometimes incorporate ritualistic elements, range from hauntingly beautiful to surreally strange. Music Review: John Zorn Performing at Alice Tully Hall 2013-07-19T19:42:03Z

Visitors can expect 5.7 square miles of giant flaming art, surreal costumes, a collection of esoteric workshops, wild parties and a spirit of freedom. Catching fire: Burning Man is sparking sister festivals around the world 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

There’s an echo of Luis Buñuel’s “The Exterminating Angel” in “The African Desperate,” though Palace’s stuckness in her off-putting milieu is less surreal than tragically banal. ‘The African Desperate’ Review: Double Speak 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

But, again, the moment is ripe for an artist with a radar for the civic surreal. A Good Year for Younger Artists, Immigrant Citizens and Outrage 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Together, they weave gentle song lyrics and artfully distorted figures into surreal vignettes on the stubbornness of pessimism. ‘Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Mix of Whimsy and Dread 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

Like the best children’s literature, Saint-Exupéry’s book is bittersweet, and even touches upon tragedy, but it also has a poetic grace and many touches of surreal humor — few of which are in evidence here. Review: ‘The Little Prince,’ a Lumbering Circus 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z

Besides, he appreciates the surreal disorientation of the celebrity encounter. the new season Film: Ryan Gosling and ?Ides of March? 2011-09-14T12:00:05Z

We’ve even gone so far, in one of the more surreal moments in television programming history, as to literally let our audience know when they’re going to find out who the killer is.” Can ?The Killing? Make a Comeback? 2012-03-18T03:49:06Z

In it, Sumac gives a pair of surreal mountain-top performances at Machu Picchu. On the trail of Yma Sumac: The exotica legend came from Peru, but her career was all Hollywood 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Some of his work seems almost surreal – but for an agent the world probably is pretty surreal. The artist who spied on MI6 2011-02-14T08:00:02Z

“Seeing me in the actual diner, dressed as Max, is very surreal for people,” he said. Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey! ‘Saved by the Bell’ Now a Restaurant 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

We didn't have TV 'til we were 12, and all the Pythons grew up with radio, which is very surreal. Python's Eric Idle back with 'What About Dick?'(wink-wink) 2012-11-12T21:43:39Z

This surreal track from the late Van Vliet's final album is typically gnarly and quite unlike any other music. Readers recommend: songs about clothes – results 2012-07-19T14:05:28Z

The afore mentioned morning show provided quite a few moments that were so surreal I sometimes think I’m making them up. Merrill Markoe: My Favorite Moments of 'Late Night With David Letterman' 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Brown recalls her life inside No 10 as "surreal". Sarah Brown's No 10 diary tells of battle over bacon rolls 2011-02-20T18:47:21Z

The scene was somewhat surreal given Houston's shocking death only earlier in the day. Pre-Grammy gala celebrates Whitney Houston's life 2012-02-12T11:38:08Z

"My childhood still seems utterly surreal to me," he says, shaking his head. 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z

PG: Let’s end with something surreal: You were not considered beautiful as children. Lupita Nyong’o and Trevor Noah, and Their Meaningful Roles 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

It struck Gary L. Perkins as “almost surreal”: He participated in the spring’s tumultuous Black Lives Matter protests in Washington — and then two months later acted in an Arena Stage film about them. Perspective | To understand what’s going on in the streets of D.C., theaters are having stage artists make movies 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s so surreal to see it in person.” A Shoeshine Box, With a Luster All Its Own, Emerges From the Shadows 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

Fears and drugs combine to wall him away from the world, until, after a surreal trial, the wall crumbles to both expose him and restore his humanity. Music Review: 30 Years On, a Less Personal ?Wall? From Waters 2010-10-06T10:21:00Z

We were coming to the point where, in the explaining of the Palio, things began to grow a bit surreal. The Palio di Siena: A Survivor’s Tale 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

This is what you're calling one of my surreal moments, but it's acted with reality. Women's empowerment is not "kicking ass in bikinis": Julie Taymor on what real feminism looks like 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

“We certainly don’t approach episodes and say, ‘Hey guys, let’s make sure this script is surreal!’” explains Stefani Robinson, one of the lead writers on Atlanta. From Beyoncé to Sorry to Bother You: the new age of Afro-surrealism 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

He ventured away from portraits, experimenting with surreal images of still lifes, landscapes and nudes. Mark Seliger’s Career as Frontman of Rusty Truck 2013-08-05T21:20:25Z

Our spontaneous reactions were also surreal and even funny. Osvaldo Golijov Fracas Over ?Sidereus? Overture 2012-03-08T00:24:00Z

“It is still so surreal to me that there is a book in your purse with my name on it.” What Change Could Look Like 2010-10-22T22:30:00Z

Bruno thought it was surreal and cartoonish – it was an unexpected delight. Strictly Come Dancing 2015: week three – as it happened 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

And Europe Will Be Stunned … might be Israeli artist Bartana's masterpiece: a deeply provocative meditation on Jewish identity that levels political punches with surreal wit. This week's new exhibitions 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z

MD: We all experienced it and it was all very surreal, we didn’t know how to say it. The League: Outtakes from our Conversation 2013-11-01T17:44:18Z

But there are already flashes of the surreally self-deprecating humor that would become his trademark: Garry Shandling’s Riotous Scrapbook 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Few opening scenes are more startling than that of Sion Sono’s surreal shocker, in which 54 schoolgirls cheerfully link hands and throw themselves under an oncoming train. Top 20 Japanese horror films – ranked! 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

There are surreal moments and scenes of magic realism. "This is a dead wife movie" that isn't maudlin says "The Secret Art of Human Flight" filmmaker 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

Be it the supernatural, the surreal, the spirit world, or just a superb performance: Here’s my list of 11 otherworldly movies, TV series, actors and plays that brought me joy and centeredness amid the chaos. 11 Ways I Escaped Reality This Year 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

The performance takes on this surreal intersection of feminist thinking, performance art, politics and, um, Mailer. Datebook: Two centuries of African American women, painting California, art about 'La Bestia' 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Dane Terry presents “Jupiter’s Lifeless Moons,” a surreal song cycle. What’s New in NYC Theater 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Descending from above, meanwhile, is a mirror image of the same scene, adding to the surreal effect. Review: In Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Kurios,’ a Frisson of Novelty 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

In interviews, Charles has said he is a fan of Barbra Streisand’s music and movies, and surreal comedy shows including “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and “The Goon Show.” A King Who Actually Likes the Arts 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

They wanted to play it on CNN, it was just surreal,” he said. Magician/comedian behind viral ‘split man’ video comes to Seattle 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

Mobarak said that by selling virtual copies of the Kahlo drawing, which features a surreal parade of animalistic monsters, he was democratizing access to something that had been sitting in a vault. Setting a Kahlo Drawing Aflame in Search of an NFT Spark 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

I think they're extremely funny and surreal, but being her Dad, I imagine I would. Simon Hoggart's week: festival folks flip between jokes and soaks 2011-08-19T20:00:00Z

“Thanks to Trump, the times are surreal and we’re feeling very angry.” Art Takes a Back Seat to Politics at a Museum Fund-Raiser 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

I think, too, the surreal novels of Nathanael West, another author the duo admired, must have influenced their work. Review | How Steely Dan made its mark on music — and shaped an American cool 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

A teenage boy's struggle with his mother's terminal illness takes a surreal turn when he finds comfort in a giant talking tree monster, in the emotional fantasy drama "A Monster Calls." Fantasy meets tragedy in surreal drama 'A Monster Calls' 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Dressed in a pink gown, Velour thanked her for “facing the kind of online bullying and rabid surreal hate from some right-wing people.” How drag queens have snatched the political spotlight in the Trump era 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

JNR Like the culinary artists it satirises, Whites is a sitcom that blends ingredients that are sometimes traditional, often subtle, but are increasingly surreal. Tonight's TV highlights: 2010-10-11T23:05:00Z

As readers, it puts us at ease, too, the humor helping metabolize the surreal scene that precedes it by bringing it within the command of the tragicomic eloquence of these street-corner chroniclers. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Stoppard’s “Inspector Hound,” a sendup wandering into the surreal of the sort of British detective mystery epitomized by Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap,” is pretty much a perfect bit of craftsmanship. Playwrights get last word in delightful ‘Critic’ and ‘Real Inspector Hound’ 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

Simply, there’s no other songwriter like him — gritty and surreal, literary and bluesy. Does a musician have any right to win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Stalter does some more straightforward parodies like a satire of rom-com clichés, but what distinguishes her from her peers is an unpredictable surreal streak. Now Playing Nightly on Instagram: Sketch Comedy’s Newest Star 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

We will find ways of commemorating the surreal nature of this year. Sparkling Wines, Even if 2020 Hasn’t Earned Them 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Apparently aspiring to take on London in the way Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America” took on New York, this big, untidy drama sets out to portray the surreal twilight of a particular eve of destruction. London Theater Journal: Apocalypse at the National 2010-08-06T16:25:00Z

Harry Hill is obsessed with animals, like most surreal comedians. Comedy gold: Harry Hill's Hooves 2012-07-05T15:39:32Z

It introduces to a broader audience an important and original American poet — sensitive, death-haunted, surreal, carnal, dirt-flecked and deeply Southern — whose promise, only partly fulfilled, it hurts to contemplate. Review: ‘What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford’ 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

With a confident performance in the title role, the baritone Dongkyu Oh matched the vividness of Roger Hanna’s brightly colored, surreally shaped storybook sets, like Vermeer by way of Dr. Seuss. Music Review: Finding High Spirits in Shakespeare 2011-05-09T21:42:29Z

The answer is yes, mostly, though any readers who aren't already well-versed in the surreal narratives and loopy language of "Night Vale" may be better off queuing up a few episodes of the podcast first. 'Welcome to Night Vale' podcast becomes an equally weird, haunted yet humorous novel 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

I found exploring Knossos a confusing and at times surreal experience. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: 21 Great Buildings Throughout History 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

When these dudes suddenly launched into a singalong of Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Under the Bridge,” the ineptitude felt surreal. The queen of this year’s Jingle Ball? Her crown is a beanie. 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

On the ride home during a treacherous snowstorm, Jake insists on stopping for an ice cream, an experience that has a surreal quality to it. Charlie Kaufman's exasperating "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" could've been a masterpiece 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

There, in the mysteriously powerful Bindery, Benny’s journey reaches a surreal crisis. Review | If a book could talk, what would it say? Ruth Ozeki has some ideas. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

The giraffe now appeared to be part of a surreal painting, running across a purplish veld beneath a blood-orange sky. Pete Turner, Photographer, Dies at 83; Used Rich Color to Alter Reality 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

But the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat and Queen of Hearts are weird not in the way of surreal fantasy but rather as dreams pregnant with disturbing meaning. 'Alice in Wonderland' at Disney Hall proves exhilarating 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

The exhibition was a surreal examination by the former athlete of the cult of the body in relation to athletics. Regen Projects, at 25, has grown into a fixture in L.A. art world 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

“The feeling on the set was so surreal. We really did make a family. It was as if we had spent a week away from each other.” Laurie Metcalf on Lady Bird and the return of Roseanne in the age of Trump 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

There’s also a lot of comedy in the book, and the poems are very surreal. ‘I Was Unprepared’: Louise Glück on Poetry, Aging and a Surprise Nobel Prize 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

So is that same frustration with everyday racism the reason a new generation of black film-makers and artists reaching for the surreal again? From Beyoncé to Sorry to Bother You: the new age of Afro-surrealism 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

I always found Mr. Morgan's characters hilarious, sharp and surreal and goofy but underscored by something darker. Tracy Morgan Is a Survivor. And ‘a Better Man Now.’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

As a designer, Mr. Coppens had not shied from surreal zoological references. A Hat Designer for Rock Stars Turns to Opera 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Fine visuals and surreal comedy help this hallucinogenic animated spaghetti western stand out – far out. This week's new films 2011-03-05T00:07:29Z

To find himself at the center of a merchandising behemoth with a “Star Wars” figure in his likeness is surreal, Mr. Driver said, adding a curse for emphasis. Adam Driver Takes the Wheel 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

Perhaps the clearest indication of the filmmaker’s artistry is that he conveys his revelations most eloquently through haunting music and surreal dance. ‘Annihilation’ Review: Deep Thoughts, Genre Delights 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

The production doesn't quite find a way to marry successfully the banter of the actors with the surreal episodes in the audition room, a place of endless humiliations. Blackta – review 2012-11-06T17:52:00Z

For Ms. Montes, a poet and chef, the show’s success seemed surreal. The Rebranding of the Bronx 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

It’s not like Sidney Lumet’s film of “The Wiz,” from 1978, where New York’s landmarks and topography and attitude are surreally, stupendously yet soporifically turned in on themselves. It Took Me 40 Years to Watch the Movie ‘Diva.’ It Was Worth the Wait. 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

As the men write down their aspirations for the future, Cassell, surreally, puts on the score to Inception. 50 years of pickup artists: why is the toxic skill still so in demand? 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

Scarlet and black are the dominant colors in the production’s surreal vision of a kingdom torn apart by witchcraft and bloodshed; actors’ faces painted ashen gray further the sense of grotesque circus theatricality. A potent tragedy for the Twitter age: It's the 95-minute 'Macbeth: Revisited' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Pinter's drama, with its distinctive mix of idiomatic precision and surreal story, suffers an equivalent loss of vigor. A licensing decree prohibiting reviews of 'The Room' at REDCAT overshadows the production, which is iffy 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Also from “Hunky Dory,” it’s told with surreal imagery, from multiple points of view, but as a human-condition song that implicates everybody, in one way or another. Listening to David Bowie: A Critic’s Tour of His Musical Changes 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

This surreal Hungarian romance is nominated for best foreign film at the Oscars. What’s on TV Friday: Nas and ‘Strike Back’ 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Sparks don't exactly fly, but there is an immediate and eerie chemistry you pick up on — part smoldering, part surreal. 'A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night' has a definite bite 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Stephen Colbert opened his monologue Thursday trying to explain what happened in Trump’s surreal presser. “We elected a mess”: President Trump’s press conference is the top topic of late night comedy 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

“I am an artist,” the governor announced last month when he unveiled another surreal artwork: a human-scale mountain that aimed to depict the quick climb and gradual fall in Covid-19 cases across New York. Andrew Cuomo Ascends to the Mountaintop With His Pandemic Poster 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

Both of Mr. Villalobos’s novels are short, dark, comic, ribald and surreal. Books of The Times: ‘Quesadillas,’ by Juan Pablo Villalobos 2014-02-27T22:39:35Z

“We include one of his most famous works from that era, ‘A Peculiar Grounding,’ which is a very surreal photo of the skeleton of an animal mixed with a human body. A Prehistoric Sculpture Inspires a Tokyo Gallery 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

Ms. Scott’s fall collection was inspired by Gustav Klimt, so it was appropriately surreal to see the designer and four of her dresses stationed right in front of “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” from 1907. On the Runway Blog: Paying Artful Homage 2013-06-21T20:59:56Z

That “The Outsiders” has permeated the culture so deeply is still somewhat surreal to even Ms. Hinton. Why ‘The Outsiders’ Lives On: A Teenage Novel Turns 50 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

In a surreal and funny late-night scene, Ms. Salter plays a cancer survivor workbook as a belligerent, blaming drill sergeant: “Write your first response, ‘What did I do to cause this?’ ” Theater Review: In ‘Tough Titty,’ a Family Confronts Breast Cancer 2014-04-29T21:40:39Z

Many of the images have a surreal flavor, some have a political vibe and some are just random subject he encountered on a street. Striking a chord: A selection of some music-themed gifts 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Her name is a byword for shocking, accurate portrayals of humankind’s ugliest elements – her awkward, surreal creations, often described as Pinteresque. Julia Davis: 'I'm worried there's going to be a backlash' 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Life for the two of them became surreal. On Death and Dignity 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

There were the canals, the creeping vines, the heat, and yes, the dust floating above the oft-unpaved streets, that made Aracataca a bit surreal. ESSAY: What you don't know about Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

The most surreal sight was Mr. Zanini appearing at the end in a T-shirt marked “The Smiths,” the British rock band of the 1980s. Fashion Review: In Paris, Schiaparelli Returns to Couture 2014-01-20T14:47:27Z

Still, the experience was worth it, if only to experience the surreal “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” atmosphere of Czech medical institutions. Soaking it up in Europe’s best spas 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

Despite its surreal, disorientating escalations, the central message is consistent: what is wrong with these people? Is climate change Hollywood's new supervillain? 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

But this week, his surreal exchange with Carrie tipped the scales. 'Homeland' Recap: Carrie Discovers the Evil Within 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

It's a brilliantly surreal shot which doesn't comment at all on what it's supposed to mean. The film that changed my life: Edgar Wright 2010-12-19T00:06:16Z

Though the term “surreal” would not be coined for another four centuries, it seems completely apt for the work of this quirky genius. Monsters and merry mayhem 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

What is unusual is that, at the moment of the transformation, there is no sign warning us that we are going to a surreal area, or a magical or mythological one. Q&A: ‘The Red Turtle’ director talks about making his first feature film 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Yet for what it sets out to do, detailing the bond of young boys under surreal circumstances, “Shooting Stars” is a relatively sturdy retelling. ‘Shooting Stars’ Review: Brotherly Love and Basketball 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

It was an attempt, she writes, “to ease the tension for myself, because this was so surreal and terrifying.” Books of The Times: Amanda Knox’s Memoir, ‘Waiting to Be Heard’ 2013-04-21T21:44:27Z

“It was an appropriately surreal, unnerving and often hilarious piece,” he said. Sondheim Musical, in Development for Years, Looks Unlikely 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

Walking onto the set of her youth has been both surreal and energizing. How Alicia Silverstone and Mena Suvari rejected typecasting, both onscreen and off 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

The corner stores where I used to buy cigarettes for my uncles, the little dark taverns with Budweiser signs in their narrow windows, the surreal views of the refineries remain. I left my heart in Jersey City: Lessons from a family funeral 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

“It was so moving and unexpected, even surreal,” Fulton said. From Easter Island, a Pianist Emerges 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

But what happened last week was downright surreal. When Your Neighbor’s Drone Pays an Unwelcome Visit 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

I went through a period when I thought the whole world was surreal. Denis Piel's best photograph – Man Ray at his house 2013-04-17T18:00:01Z

Time’s annular habits receive a broader and more surreal treatment in “History,” from 1988, which compares the follies of youth and age with civilization’s ouroboric propensity for power and violence. Donald Hall in The New Yorker 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

While I wanted more exuberance, I liked the surreal thriller told by the BirdGang Dance Company of London. Review: With ‘Breakin’ Convention,’ a Hip-Hop Festival Impresses at the Apollo 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

When the chorus goes, "life with Dougie is so so real," it could easily say "so surreal." Music Monday: Salmon Thrasher, Sol, Dougie 2010-06-07T19:46:00Z

Is it that is “every parent’s nightmare” but 200 is an abstraction, a number too surreal to fathom? Why is the media ignoring 200 missing girls? 2014-04-30T18:58:00Z

They’re intricate and surreal, nominally still lifes but removed from a material plane. It Was Their Big Debut. Then a Pandemic Hit. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

As if to maximize the surreal quality of this day, he’d driven up to watch the competition, and now I’d dropped his daughter. Take my wife, please! 2012-10-04T20:39:00Z

Television fame remains a little surreal to Mr. Criss, given that he grew up in San Francisco, working in theater. Darren Criss of ?Glee? Fills Daniel Radcliffe?s Shoes 2012-01-02T18:51:19Z

In contrast, a small experimental theater designed later that year in collaboration with Bloc for a site in Dakar evokes the surreal, womblike forms of Frederick Kielser’s “Endless House.” Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World 2010-03-09T23:26:00Z

“In the back, where the water features are, when we were standing there, the sound of the fountains, it was surreal,” he said. ‘It Was Like My Pinterest Board Come to Life’ 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

The joke works precisely because the Spanish Civil War was uniquely surreal. Beauty amid the horror of war 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

The writers didn't need to make up Bill O'Reilly's famously surreal shower fantasy about "that falafel thing," it remains simultaneously hilarious and grotesque. From Harvey Weinstein to the new #MeToo movies, true justice still remains in the realm of fantasy 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

“Vegas is surreal no matter where you are,” he says, ashing a Marlboro right on the stone bar. Mandalay Bay embodied everything modern Las Vegas wanted to be. Until this week. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

It’s kind of surreal for them, but it’s immersive for me.” At 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' premiere, Joss Whedon finally exhales 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

In letting Poprishchin tell his increasingly surreal stories of daily humiliations and discoveries as a crowd-courting monologue, this “Madman” is determined to make us see how close fierce comedy is to bona fide insanity. | 'Diary of a Madman': Send in the Russian Clown and His Pain and Alienation, Too 2011-02-18T00:36:24Z

Most daringly, Braben persuaded the comedians of the surreal conceit that, in behind-the-scenes sketches, they should be sharing not only a bungalow but a bed as well. How Eddie Braben saved Morecambe and Wise's careers 2013-05-21T14:52:31Z

A surreal stage-like creation with one brick wall replaced with plexiglass, it was a magnified vision of a childhood toy. The many ways art goes missing 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

A compelling mixture of the gritty and surreal, Kicks tells the story of Brandon, an undersized Bay Area teen caught between the dreams of childhood and the harsh actuality of adolescence. Kicks: sneaker violence gets its own movie 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

It's most likable at its most surreal and curious, its most Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. TV review: The Angelos Epithemiou Show 2012-07-20T17:48:43Z

"It was so surreal. The flight attendants, they were with me the whole time, feeding me, giving me water and snacks – like unlimited meals, unlimited desserts and everything I asked for," Forsyth said. Man on British Airways flight says he ended up on near-empty plane, TikTok videos show unclaimed seats 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

Many men drew surprisingly anatomical depictions of the female form, while depictions were comic and even surreal. “Like Play-doh that’s been warmed up”: Why we can’t get enough of viral videos like “Lesbians touch penis for the first time” 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

In more than 20 volumes of poetry, Mr. Berkson developed a freewheeling, idiosyncratic style that could be, by turns, conversational, epigrammatic, elliptical, whimsical and surreal. Bill Berkson, Poet and Art Critic of ’60s Manhattan In-Crowd, Dies at 76 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Such surreal touches are rare in Hwang’s art but common enough to reveal that her realist vistas are actually fantasies. In the galleries: Expect the unexpected as two artists engage in a ‘Surreal Dialogue’ 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

It's rich territory, enlivened by Neilson's surreal humour, but after nearly two hours this stream of open-ended shorts becomes monotonous. Narrative – review 2013-04-11T13:10:00Z

Another screen will host a revival of “The Atomic Cafe,” an assemblage examining the United States’ history as a nuclear power through a surreal combination of news clips, educational films and commercials. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Fresh Off the Boat has a tone that’s both retro and surreal at the same time, using its characters’ outsider status to alert us to our own position in society. The Real O’Neals: gay Catholic sitcom has more than a prayer 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

But it’s clearly surreal; imagine Magritte as a puppeteer. Spare Times for Children for April 26-May 2 2013-04-25T22:27:06Z

“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” is directed by Matt Reeves, who, unlike his predecessor, Rupert Wyatt, finds little that is amusing, curious, or surreal in the plight of his characters. Anthony Lane: “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” and “Boyhood” 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

The sheer tastelessness of this situation is what makes it work, coupled with its almost surreal improbability. | 'Horrible Bosses': A Treatise on Issues of the Workplace. Not. 2011-07-07T16:06:51Z

In a 2020 video, “No Comment,” cat memes, online mapping programs and a stream of surreal text and images seek to dislodge the viewer from taking online narcissism for granted. Review | Artist Barbara Kruger is still right about everything. Let’s listen up. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

It's in the band's interest for the TM to be in charge, even when things get surreal. Rock'n'roll jobs explained 2010-04-15T21:05:00Z

And there is a — surreal may be the only way to describe it — interview Assange has with Lady Gaga in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has sought asylum. For the director of “Risk,” filming Julian Assange became a spy game 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z

For one thing, he’s very often quite surreally funny. In ‘Virtual Unreality,’ Charles Seife Unfriends Gullibility 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

To be asked to be part of the national record was “surreal,” Ms. Bonney said. Meet Your Meme Lords 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

Even if there are precedents for the album-listening and fashion show as one live event, West’s active presence, amiability, and hunger for engagement still gave the evening a surreal atmosphere. Kanye West Shrinks Madison Square Garden 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

Ms. Link never fusses over the surreal twists in her stories, but they contain so much emotional truth that there’s no need to explain a thing. Kelly Link’s ‘Get in Trouble’ and Five Other Works 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

His best films are abstract, surreal and highly symbolic — and yet curiously entertaining in a traditional narrative sense.” Arts & Leisure: Ed Wood?s ?Final Curtain? Plays at Slamdance 2012-02-03T03:43:03Z

Both of these surreal episodes contributed to Adams’s eclectic and playful “Grand Pianola Music.” A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

Mandalay Bay is getting back to normal, after a Monday that one resortist called “morose” and a Tuesday that another called “surreal.” Mandalay Bay embodied everything modern Las Vegas wanted to be. Until this week. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

"I can distinctly remember playing for about eight people in Amarillo, Texas, about four years ago and to get from there to here is surreal," he said. Blake Shelton dominates Country Music awards 2012-11-02T04:15:12Z

Mr. Olive’s play captures the surreal, satisfyingly subversive tone of Mr. Sachar’s tales, which, like Roald Dahl’s, often pit resourceful children against an absurd and arbitrary adult world. Spare Times for Children for May 17-23 2013-05-16T22:17:51Z

The piece, which mixes spoken word, music, surreal comedy and performance, tells a tale of gentrification, racial tension and male identity. Four Rising Theater Stars to Watch This Spring 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

For subject-hungry Hollywood, it is too juicy a story to resist: a tale of megalomania, scandal and surreally absurd incident, with a supporting cast of colourfully extreme characters. White House downer: why Hollywood should steer clear of a Trump biopic 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

His first novel, about an anti-Semitic Jew who leads a colorful and surreal existence during the war, was published in 1968. Patrick Modiano, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, is a paradox

Works in the group show called "Re-Vision" do exactly that — by transforming photos into something real and surreal at the same time. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-03-30T22:28:04Z

We began in Boyle Heights, skirting Hollenbeck Park, which offers the surreal sight of a park with a freeway running through it. The runner's view of Los Angeles: Its landscape, its people, and the BBQ at mile 10 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

Character and narrative are secondary – image and symbol dominate with a surreal and hypnotic intensity, and the language reflects this. Writers pick their favourite short stories 2011-01-04T14:28:46Z

Reconstruction — a surreal and glorious period when Confederate veterans were barred from voting and freed slaves exercised real power in the South — was abandoned in a petty political deal over a presidential ticket. The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

The film captures the surreal spectacle of the big-tusked mammals amassed outside his shack as he dictates observations. ‘The 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Bite-Size Global Tales 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

“What we were seeing was block and block and block of abandoned houses and drug addicts wandering around. It was almost surreal.” Lance Reddick, Star of ‘The Wire’ and ‘John Wick,’ Dies at 60 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

York's medieval Mystery Plays are a surreal mix. York Mystery Plays 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z

The production can get surreally silly at points, but Alessandrini treats Miranda’s masterpiece with the rambunctious love this watershed musical deserves. 'Spamilton': Musical spoof lands its punches softly, and with a smile 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

It’s in the feeling that this kind of surreal moment induces — where you’re caught between wonder and the urge to hoot with laughter — that “The Young Pope” may come closest to God. Review: ‘The Young Pope’ Is Beautiful and Ridiculous 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

She also used the throbbing sustained tones known as binaural beats, hints of Buddhist chants and bell tones, while her video showed images from alchemy, Eastern religion and surreal modernity. At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Existentialism in its Kunderian manifestation, like its cousins the absurd and the surreal, claims laughter to be an essential element of man’s defiance. ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Still, the director Mariusz Trelinski, working closely with an inventive video production designer, has fashioned a dark, almost surreal production that draws out the grimness in both works. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 6-12 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

The mix of Carax’s and Sparks’ sensibilities are hard to describe, but everything in “Annette” is heightened, surreal, self-aware — except for the performances. Cannes: Adam Driver on singing, surrealism and ‘Annette’ 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

This was a surreal, decadent, twilight world and whether it was Truman Capote, Debbie Harry, Grace Jones or Andy Warhol, it was mutually beneficial, the club burnishing their image and vice versa. Creating the ‘decadent twilight world’ of nightclubs 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z

Sometimes nothing is more surreal than reality itself. Art Review | 'Twilight Visions': Shocking Is Poetic at International Center of Photography 2010-03-11T23:02:00Z

Butler, 42, told the Observer that watching Elba bring to life his character was just “surreal”. How a writer’s first film script inspired Idris Elba to become its star 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

None of that could have prepared her for the surreal experience she had at Los Angeles’ Capitol studio while making “On the Line,” however. A rough journey to new music for Jenny Lewis 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

The core activity is interacting with gears that are drawn on walls in the favela, a simple task that leads to a surreal reordering of the structures in the world. Video Game Review: Papo & Yo 2012-09-25T12:45:11Z

Mr. De Palma, retaining the basic structure of his source, sets out in search of the surreal and the preposterous, which he has never had much trouble finding. Movie Review: Brian De Palma’s ‘Passion’ Stars Rachel McAdams 2013-08-29T22:04:14Z

In summary, the surreal moments are jarring, the narrative is a mess, and then it just ends. TV highlights 05/03/2013 2013-03-05T07:00:13Z

This modern-dress, boldly spare, somewhat surreal staging strips away the opera’s period trappings to focus on the ill-fated lovers. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Dec. 5-Dec.11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

“It was surreal, knowing that it was hardly on the radar of the rest of the world, but for us it was this monumental thing.” film: Mark and Jay Duplass Go From Indies to Studio Films 2010-06-11T23:35:00Z

Also, she works on a near-epic scale, which adds to the boisterous, mildly surreal vibe of these scenes of commonplace foliage. In the galleries: Brentwood Arts Exchange filled with flora 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Transformative, twisted and utterly surreal, Evenson’s stories are written with the eye of a miniaturist, every detail adding shadow and gloss. Read It and Scream 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

There would be other visits — and what must have been surreal moments for a family of limited means and worldliness. The Bay Citizen: Family Opened Up the Door to John and Yoko 2010-10-08T04:15:00Z

Ury talked to Salon about his book, how surreal it is to make a living by dying, and, of course, the details of that gruesome “Breaking Bad” scene. “Death is how I make my living”: David Ury has died onscreen in almost every role he’s played 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Among them “we find the surreal, the nonlinear, the essayistic, the pointillist” — some of Smith’s “most vibrant, original fiction, the kind of writing she’ll surely be known for.” New in Paperback: ‘Janis’ and ‘Grand Union’ 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

Then again, some images are so nauseously sentimental they are surreal. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-08T00:06:27Z

It’s one of the great classics of Irish literature: gleefully surreal and chaotic, bursting with the author’s love for Irish mythology, and a lot of fun. Read Your Way Through Dublin 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

It was directed by Hiro Murai, who also directs much of Atlanta, and injects the show with a somewhat surreal flavour. Donald Glover on the return of Atlanta: ‘I’m not making a TV show, I am making an experience’ 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

These charmingly insouciant short stories by the noted critic, poet and essayist exhibit the same surreal whimsy that distinguishes his work in other formats. New & Noteworthy, From Jazz-Age Cairo to a Catholic Memoir 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Mixing dark, gothic oddness and daft, surreal gags, the duo staged a series of assured Edinburgh shows and appeared to be on the up. This week's new comedy 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z

David Lynch probes a murder in Lumberton — “the town that knows how much wood a woodchuck chucks” — in this surreal foray into suburbia. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Frequency’ and ‘Designated Survivor’ 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

Written by Benson and shot by Moorhead, “Something in the Dirt” is a surreal satire of paranoia and conspiratorial thinking, suggesting both as logical responses to an increasingly scary world. ‘Something in the Dirt’ Review: The Truth Is Over There, by the Sofa 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

"These are sad days man, sad days; it's just … surreal." Rap responds to the riots: 'They have to take us seriously' 2011-08-12T17:15:46Z

A small spurt of silliness, that began last year with shows such as Hunderby and Cardinal Burns, is threatening to become a full-blown gush of surreal exuberance. From Hunderby to It's Kevin: how TV comedy learned to be silly again 2013-03-19T12:52:00Z

How would they do this show in our increasingly surreal political and cultural landscape, in which traditions are being shed, citizens are polarized, and ids are running wild? “Invisibilia” Returns—with Timely Concepts 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Discovered after the war, the film contains horrific images of starvation, poverty and humiliation, interspersed with surreal scenes of well-dressed Jews enjoying a restaurant dinner or an urban stroll. 'A Film Unfinished': Holocaust documentary 'finishes' incomplete Nazi propaganda film 2010-10-14T20:40:00Z

The book’s 60 short chapters are easy to gobble up, especially since Gibson is constantly peppering us with surreal tidbits. What Is the Status of Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Wall’? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

The old and the new, the real and the surreal, the melancholic and the absurd, the factual and the fictitious are all blended here — blended and dissolved as if in flowing water. Read Your Way Through Istanbul 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

It was surreal to wander utterly alone through elegant halls lined with works by El Greco and Caravaggio, Roman sculptures from the Farnese collection and 18th-century furnishings. Frugal Traveler: Naples: Must-Sees and See-What-Happens 2011-06-07T18:32:57Z

The book’s title reflects the surreal ways in which the fissures of Islam’s heartland are reproduced in Britain. Under the spotlight 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

He simultaneously creates a vision of a fantastical world that can be surreal, yet hints at the real dangers that humanity faces: from commercialism to pollution and war. Special Report: Asian Art: A Filipino Artist's Fantastical Vision, Finely Crafted 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z

It also emphasizes the deep subtleties in black and brown skin tones through colors that add a dreamlike, surreal feeling without losing the reality of the actors’ features. Shining a Light on Black and Brown Representation in Film 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

The surreal effect is contrived, and any supposed satirical comment on modern Greece is not especially compelling. Alps – review 2012-11-08T21:40:01Z

“It was all very surreal,” Lindell said in a recent video interview from an undisclosed location, for “safety” reasons. Is the MyPillow guy the future of the Republican Party, or is he just dreaming? 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

But first let's acknowledge that Armstrong is far from the first person to suffer surreal, intense and -- here's that word again -- unnatural misery while taking part in an unscripted TV show. Reality TV: A blood sport that must change 2011-08-18T14:59:00Z

It culminates in him taking Humphreys to visit the Christian Brothers who still lived in their surreal building. The Loach family business 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z

This looks smoothly "real" – though by 1950 nobody would have been fooled by it: instead, it was understood as "surreal". The fake photographs that predate Photoshop 2012-08-29T08:44:53Z

The song includes Matlock’s favorite country obscurities, which carry domestic strife into the comically surreal. Music Review: Linda Purl Sings at the Metropolitan Room 2010-06-10T22:16:00Z

Inside the gates, my sister and I found a surreal world in which people zipped around in golf carts and gardeners picked up palm fronds the moment they hit the ground. Beyond the green in Palm Springs: The desert is Coachella Valley’s true oasis 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

These surreal vignettes are Pina Bausch-lite, telling us that we are in the dark and muddled entrails of the unconscious, excavating the pit, or core, of the self. Review: A Dance Gushes With an Outpouring of the Inner Self 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

A former producer for “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” this comedian stepped out in front of the camera for her own surreal docucomedy series for Adult Swim called “Soft Focus With Jena Friedman.” 6 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

But what got me most was how surreal it was: I had seen plenty of gruesome athlete injuries on TV and had always felt sorry for the guys, at a distance. My life as a teen brawler 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z

It takes a surreal turn in the dramatic canto of the Angels of Death with high-pitched voices shrieking "I am the angel of death, I catch breath", followed by repeated expletives. 'Shell Shock' opera brings trauma of World War One to stage 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

But when the two candidates are next to each other, Clinton’s surreal, specific disadvantages in this Presidential race start to pay out their own dividends. Hillary Clinton’s Miss Universe Moment 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

It was just a surreal scene — my father, coming back like this. The Many Lives of Jeannette Walls 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

The accommodations are slightly better for the security forces; the food production sections are surreal and serene. Hurtling along in Bong Joon-ho's train movie 'Snowpiercer' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

"It will be a little of a surreal experience." Golden Globe nominees excited about Fey, Poehler 2012-12-13T21:25:10Z

Tracing the path of a trauma-laden spy on a constantly failing series of missions, it lives in a surreal, yet realistic world of quirky, yet grounded characters. 8 brilliant shows you haven’t streamed yet, but will this long weekend 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

While his guitar gently weeps, Tweedy sets a scene that’s both surreal and acutely felt: “Sun beating down like a big trombone/That’s right when I start missing home.” Jeff Tweedy’s Homesick Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

Even at its dullest and most doctrinaire, “Deviation” is kept afloat by D’Eramo’s archaeological ardor, and by the surreal twists and turns of her narrative. The Story of the Girl Who Volunteered To Be Imprisoned by the Nazis 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

A chance interaction with the publishing house’s founder and staff sets the company on a surreal crash course with the future. | Ismael Cruz Córdova: A Chameleon Onstage and on TV 2013-08-30T19:07:45Z

One day, surreally, a harpist arrived, unannounced and unexplained, and started playing. Four years, 40 negative tests: why being young and infertile sucks 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

“It had some kind of surreal feel,” said Donald O’Brien, an air traffic controller here for 44 years. A 9/11 Parable, Resurrected in Newfoundland 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

The result is a surreal and bold exploration of trauma and recovery that doesn’t yield closure in the traditional sense but empowers our heroine to move forward. Best TV episodes of 2020: ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ ‘BoJack Horseman,’ ‘This Is Us’ and more 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Highlights this autumn include the UK premiere of 200 Motels, Frank Zappa's lavish soundtrack to the surreal rock documentary he made with Tony Palmer. Southbank's 20th-century festival to include Frank Zappa premiere 2013-01-17T18:11:46Z

Ivor Cutler's off-the-wall humour, surreal songs and poems inspired everyone from Billy Connolly to the Beatles. The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler 2014-03-31T23:04:52Z

With echoes of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, there was a sense that this surreal day was one more TV remake of a classic, updated for today’s times and technology. In Comey’s Testimony, a Reboot of Classic TV Hearings Past 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

The Australian singer attended the world premiere of "Holy Motors" Wednesday - a surreal movie that sees her return to acting. Kylie's golden moment in Cannes 2012-05-24T15:35:12Z

Haute couture week is a period that is surreal even in the most prosperous of times. Versace, Dior and the Reality Gap 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

But it breaks conventions right and left, veering into surreal asides, abrupt violence and subplots in ways no one expected from a half-hour television comedy. How ‘Atlanta’ Breaks TV’s Rules 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

There are several surreal and violent chapters about his chickens, who are personified more than any of the human beings in this story. Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Still clinging tenuously to Odessa, the Nasmertovs experience the American Dream on Ambien — a groggy sleepwalk through one surreal absurdity after another. ‘Panic in a Suitcase,’ by Yelena Akhtiorskaya

For miles around us, sandstone fins, arches and balancing rock formations glowed with a pale, surreal light. Take a road trip to Utah’s Red Rock Country 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

And the same thing with recording quality, like things that sound really, really hyper-real or surreal or science fiction, or junk — and everything in between. Grizzly Bear Takes a New Approach on Its Album ‘Shield’ 2012-09-16T07:23:03Z

Building 6 is also now home to several surreal marble sculptures from the family of Louise Bourgeois, including a 15-ton carving she kept in her studio. A Museum Where Giant Art Has Room to Breathe 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

The Biden White House Christmas décor, unveiled on Monday, isn’t nearly as stylized or surreal as the Trump-endorsed looks that preceded them. Jill Biden’s White House Christmas Looks Very … Normal 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Animation is so often the province of children because it’s a medium so well-suited to the fantastical, horrible and surreal. Cartoon magic for grown-ups: “BoJack Horseman” imbues the cynical TV industry with zoomorphic soul 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

For his latest solo show, “Jardins Secrets,” at Axelle Fine Arts in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, he presents a selection of surreal scenes set in lush, burgeoning nature and desolate blue-gray moonscapes. Immerse Yourself in Eric Roux-Fontaine’s Surreal Landscapes 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Alessandro Talevi’s whimsical production — complete with shadow play, stages within stages, and a ribbon-obsessed cook who is, yes, also a chicken — likewise captured the surreal farce without leaving a sugary hangover. A Festival Adds to Opera’s Soaring Body Count 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Plenty of sequels followed, tailored to the most surreal headlines of the day. Even Billy Joel Mocked ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire.’ I Loved It. 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

But while both programs seemed to aim for a surreal effect, neither proved particularly transporting. Sandbaths, a Huge Butterfly Net and More Choreographed Whimsy 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

In movies as in real life, these stories are awkward, tender, tragic, triumphant, surreal, nightmarish, funny – sometimes all at once. Boyhood, Moonlight and beyond: the best coming-of-age movies 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Ms. Spalding appears first in a photo shoot and later in a surreal dream sequence, performing a song with a chamber-electronic texture. The Playlist: Jay Z Sips Lemonade and Adele Divides and Conquers 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

The book often evokes the Beasties at their surreal, hilarious peak — see the time they ran into Bob Dylan at a birthday party for Dolly Parton in the winter of ’88. Inside the Beastie Boys’ wild, moving memoir 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Subsequent such as The Noodle Maker and Stick Out Your Tongue developed a style that blended internal landscapes with flashes of magic realism and surreal comedy. The Dark Road by Ma Jian – review 2013-05-02T11:00:02Z

One of them, Damien Davis describes how “surreal” the pie auction was. Hurricane Irene, one year later 2012-08-27T16:42:00Z

This astounding documentary is so packed with surreal scenarios, casual corruption and inhumanity, it's difficult to believe it's actually true. The Act Of Killing, This Is The End, Despicable Me: this week's new films 2013-06-29T05:00:11Z

In one unnerving, surreal moment, she pulls a human tooth out of the back of her hand. With ‘Roar,’ the Creators of ‘GLOW’ Got Extra Personal. And Weird. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

In any case, Act II catapults from the real to the surreal when we reach the Nixons’ night at Chiang Ch’ing’s high-voltage ballet. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z

Episodes open with cryptic, almost surreal montages that introduce characters and clues in the most confusing way possible. Review: In Final Season of ‘Inspector Lewis,’ Solving Mysteries While Navigating a New Boss 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Specialists worked for four months to individually clean each frame of the 1968 surreal tale by hand, the Beatles' holding company Apple Corps Ltd. said Tuesday. Beatles' 'Yellow Submarine' movie restored for DVD 2012-03-20T17:43:12Z

I mean, of course, this is completely surreal.” Wolfgang Tillmans: Older, Wiser, Cooler 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

Since you ask, he's 22, was born and raised in Kentucky, hence the sense of his music as a kind of surreal soundtrack to Smallville USA. New band of the day ? No 847: Idiot Glee 2010-08-13T15:46:00Z

The whole effect couldn't be more surreal: Emdur captures images of idyllic mountain landscapes and wild seascapes amid the severe reality of prison architecture. Gut-wrenching photo evidence from Brown vs. Plata in 'Prison Obscura' 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

“It was completely surreal to me,” Harper said. ‘I Just Want Something That’s Gay and Happy’: L.G.B.T.Q. Romance Is Booming 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

His most famous act was an often surreal monologue delivered via a seemingly faulty microphone. Norman Collier obituary 2013-03-19T12:33:06Z

There’s both flowing arpeggios and droning underneath Time’s climactic surreal monologue, summing up eons of Earth’s history. Review: In ‘You Us We All,’ a Symbolic Hope Writes to Pop Divas 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

If that title suggests a sitcom populated exclusively by surreal, wafting cross–dressers, you'd be barking up the wrong monkey tree. TV highlights 20/02/2013 2013-02-20T07:00:01Z

Faces and bodies smeared in mud, they are a mesmerizing, surreal spectacle — one of the smallest, a Dennis Hopper-esque runt, wears what looks like a skinned bobcat for a hat. Review: Viggo Mortensen Captivates in ‘Captain Fantastic’ 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Trained as a scientific illustrator, with some background in traditional Chinese painting as well, Washington artist Justin Gibbens combines naturalistic detail with surreal flights of fancy in his “subversive zoological drawings.” ‘Sea Change’ and allusions to climate change among artworks at local galleries in January 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

The stupefying heat at times meant the works for toy piano took on a particularly surreal quality, with the whistles of Jorge Torres Sáenz’s “Toy Symphony” piercing the heavy air with startling force. Music Review: Margaret Leng Tan on Toy Piano at Washington Square Park 2013-07-17T20:27:22Z

"It's just a bit of water in the electrics – it's fine!" says Fowler, encouraging my delight in the now surreal bulb. RCA Secret postcards sale 2013: three big names to look out for 2013-03-13T16:06:01Z

The result is a slightly surreal, wholly engaging narrative about dance, music, mortality and acceptance, and about the bedrock notion that all of us, like Chuck, contain multitudes. Review | ‘If It Bleeds’ reaffirms Stephen King’s mastery of short fiction 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

Some surreal photographic visions involve no wizardry beyond elaborate staging. 'The Digital Eye': photographic art in the electronic age 2011-08-10T20:11:06Z

The gardens of candy magnate Milton S. Hershey don’t quite have the surreal power of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, but Palmer’s workplace is still a realm of fantasy outside the quotidian slog. The horticulture industry’s age problem is bigger than you think 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

He comes across like a foreigner in a strange, surreal world. How Leonard Slatkin blogged an opera disaster 2010-04-05T11:47:00Z

You haven’t left the city behind, and you are surrounded by people, but it all feels different, and slightly surreal. Review | An artificial island with a real upside 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

But in the fundamentally surreal world of a musical, familiar pop tunes are like junk food, providing a ping of stimulation with no nutrition. Review: In ‘Almost Famous,’ the Heart of Rock ’n’ Roll Flatlines 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

From the mad, the bad, and the weird, the shocking to the surreal, here are a few of the late-night movies that set the scene for greasy strangling. The strangest, sickest and scariest midnight movies ever 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

“It’s very surreal,” said Ms. Baldwin who said she had been called Hilaria by family members for most of her life. The Hilaria Baldwin Story: ‘I’m Living My Life’ 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

He regarded the body as a playground, gender as an ongoing invention, and domestic interiors as surreal constructions. Jimmy DeSana, Downtown Pioneer and Provocateur, Goes Mainstream 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

Ms. Yerushalmy’s work, which includes the abstract, the mundane and the surreal, provides strong material for examination. Dance Listings for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:25:40Z

The French author’s surreal English-language debut asks: If the medical establishment dismisses the physical struggles of women, how much pain can we abide, and when must we fight back? 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

In some of Hershberg’s punchlines, there are hints of a delight in pure nonsense that suggests a more surreal direction in his future. Jokes + Exasperation + Subtext = a New York Club Comic on the Rise 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

Plus: photography that touches on the ambiguities of gender, surreal embroideries and paper puppet theaters. Datebook: Art inspired by Octavia Butler, photos that get gender-ambiguous, revisiting a Bay Area group 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The drunken questions at the press conference were wildly inappropriate; the gig – with the band dressed as skeletons – was like a surreal acid trip. Air farce one? 2012-11-19T17:28:00Z

This surreal story never resolves who the tiger is, and it remains a perfect question for anyone aged from one to 101 to ponder. My hero: Judith Kerr by Michael Rosen 2013-06-07T06:05:01Z

Actor and director Kenneth Branagh has said it was "a surreal experience" to have been named on the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Branagh: Knighthood is 'surreal' 2012-06-18T14:03:34Z

Others offered descriptions such as “nonstop,” “overwhelming,” “relentless,” “mind-blowing,” “devastating,” “exasperating” and “surreal.” Beware the Trump brain rot: The cognitive effects of this administration’s actions could be disastrous 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

It sounds like I’m skipping some steps, but that’s kind of how it was — pretty surreal. Meet the 24-Year-Old Director Bringing Kanye West’s Visions to Life 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

It's a surreal feeling to have the demure, angelic Keri Russell wallop you across the chops at any moment. Russell and Rhys play Russian spies in the 'burbs 2013-02-11T14:38:18Z

Some were minimalist and surreal, others determinedly realistic and violent. Charles Simic, Pulitzer-Winning Poet and U.S. Laureate, Dies at 84 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

It’s surreally lit up by stark images that sear your retina; gone the next second, to be replaced by others just as mysterious and disorientating. Hallucinating history: when Stalin and Eisenstein reinvented a revolution 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

The film is a surreal take on Princess Diana’s struggles during Christmas 1991, the year before she and Prince Charles separated. A look inside Sandringham House, site of the royals’ annual holiday retreat 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Her cottage was appointed in bright, saturated colors that leapt out from the monotonous backdrop of the Irish sky with the surreal quality of a pop-up book. Sinead O’Connor Remembers Things Differently 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

Their first encounter, while she is hunting rabbits in the forest not far from her house, has a surreal, almost cartoonish quality. ‘Fear’ Review: Stranger in a Strange Land 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

My favorite joke in the piece was a slightly surreal moment when each candidate looks at one of the others and we see what they’re seeing. Al Franken: My 10 favorite ‘Saturday Night Live’ political sketches 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

“Iceland was for both of us a revelation — unexpected and beautiful and energizing and surreal,” Chamlee says. Icelandic magic: One U.S. couple's excursions, on view at Photo L.A. 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

Ruiz stirs into this his own jarringly surreal touches, leaving both his characters and his audience uncertain as to whether or not they're dreaming. TV highlights 12/02/2013 2013-02-12T06:59:01Z

On recovering he decides to change his life, wife and mental state with many a surreal diversion in the process. Bliss; BBC Prom 61: H?nsel and Gretel 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

By the time it ended, "Suffering, Inc." had melded the surreal and the mundane, Chekhov's world and our own. Risk-taking Seattle theaters offer wild surprises 2011-12-01T00:35:04Z

Pose alongside a flamboyant 85-foot statue of the Hindu god Hanuman, rising above the humble village of Carapichaima like a surreal piece of Las Vegas in Trinidad. 36 Hours: Trinidad 2011-12-29T17:11:11Z

These artists saw modern life in the same surreal and eerie way as the science fiction writer JG Ballard does in his stories and novels. From Warhol to Murakami: pop art hasn't lost its soul, it's selling it 2012-02-09T15:46:11Z

"It's been a pretty amazing, surreal year," McCarthy said. Clooney, Pitt, other pals gather for Oscar lunch 2012-02-06T22:41:20Z

Oozing quality, the action switches seamlessly from surreal dance sequence to hyper-realistic sporting enactment, poignant soliloquy to knockabout comedy. En Route; Fair Trade; Shakespeare: The Man from Stratford; Up 'N' Under; Odyssey; Poland 3 Iran 2; Beautiful Burnout 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

Otherwise, this narrative feature debut from Camille Thoman is mostly a frustrating jumble of surreal puzzle pieces that audiences will likely be uninterested in solving. Review: Secrets and Lies in ‘Never Here’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

The two have more in common than a surreal sense of humor. Film: Adam McKay Directs Cops Under Arrested Adolescence 2010-08-01T01:53:00Z

It seemed surreal, especially because a few days earlier I'd been in London, where nobody gives you a second glance. Big in Belgium: the British celebrities you've never heard of 2013-03-15T18:00:00Z

The untitled work is surreal and irreverent -- and certainly not in keeping with the more somber and shocking art being made about Kennedy's assassination in the immediate wake of his death. Object Lesson: John Altoon's Oswald spoof is very Internet 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Ma, whose 2018 debut novel “Severance” proved eerily prescient in hinging on a global pandemic, won the fiction award for her surreal short story collection. Ukrainian Author Andrey Kurkov Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

The strange shapes became ever more surreal: piles of gargantuan jellyfish; seas of brain coral; oversize mushroom clusters. Slovenian Rhapsody 2011-08-05T18:30:00Z

To see Vin in that context was surreal: The elegance and the familiarity of London and Vin there was very contradictory! Honk if Helen Mirren and Vin Diesel Should Have Kissed in ‘F9’ 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

“It felt really surreal,” Parker says with a sardonic laugh. Rent hikes and evictions — is this the last stand for artists in the Arts District? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

The masks are striking – surreal faces made from wood, leather, horsehair and feathers, painted in vivid pigments of red, blue, yellow and orange. Paris auction house sells Hopi masks despite tribe's objection 2013-04-12T16:23:01Z

But the sketches, songs and videotaped descents into the fathoms of the freaky and surreal exceeded this setup, alternating between the baffling, the hilarious, the nightmarish and the unnamable. Celebrating a decade of disgust with Tim and Eric 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

Near the end, the movie becomes a surreal depiction of his precarious mental state. Review: ‘Set Fire to the Stars’ Unleashes Dylan Thomas on America 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Then, without fanfare, he released the single “Where Are They Now?” and posted a surreal music video on YouTube. Who Needs the Critics? Go Cryptic Instead 2013-06-21T21:10:30Z

With real-life mass murder an American fixture now, this book’s gore makes it something of a surreal beach read. Review | White supremacists are the eerily relevant villains in Karin Slaughter’s new novel 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

He is coming off a live election-night special, broadcast on Showtime, that became increasingly surreal and funereal as the program wore on. Just a Friendly Chat Between 2 Worried Late-Night Hosts 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

Urgent, surreal, furious, funny and wildly messy, the movie sounds like an invitation to defeat, but it’s an improbable triumph that finds Mr. Lee doing some of his best work in years. Review: Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq,’ a Barbed Takedown of Gang Wars, With Sex as the Weapon 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Likely this has to do with the preference of Isabella Rossellini — who conceived, co-directed and performs this piece about animals’ thoughts and communications — for surreal humor over cloying sentimentality. Review: Isabella Rossellini as Ringmaster in ‘Link Link Circus’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

These things give a certain thickening to the surreal soup and they certainly keep the viewers off balance. Twin Peaks reviewed by Nancy Banks-Smith 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

His adventures are a blithe, surreal fable, a riff on themes Mr. Allen pursued with more aggression in “Celebrity.” Movie Review: Woody Allen’s Latest, ‘To Rome With Love’ 2012-06-21T12:00:00Z

The scene onstage was nothing but surreal — fragmented light beams suggesting a proscenium; towering, billowing curtains lit in dreamy shades of blue, their translucence revealing the impression of a building facade beyond. ‘The Hours’ Becomes an Opera. Don’t Expect the Book or Film. 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

A side order of surreal is fine, but a big squashy banquette is kinder to your soul. Nine seats, three Michelin stars: are tiny restaurants such as the Araki intimate or absurd? 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

They turned a modest gray skirt suit and coat into delightfully bizarre business attire and helped Mr. De Vincenzo seal the surreal deal of this strong show. Special Report: Fashion: Taking It Out West 2011-02-28T18:43:44Z

Most people who were stunned by the outcome managed to shake off the surreal feeling. Sci-Fi Writer William Gibson Reimagines the World After the 2016 Election 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Seemingly emerging from cocoons, the mixed-media creatures are surreal, yet their visages are unthreatening and essentially identical. Review | In the galleries: Putting flat art into perspective 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

When terrorists hijacked planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, the frame of reference the nation turned to in the surreal aftermath was just about universal. Video Game Review: Spec Ops: The Line, From 2K Games, Makes Killing Personal 2012-06-25T16:34:27Z

And so began one more surreal Moroccan night. "We were homeless in Marrakech": When budget travel with two kids goes sideways 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

“It felt surreal seeing these men in uniform, wearing masks, knocking on doors in an effort to get a handle on who’s here,” she said. The Open Road Calls, but Authorities Say ‘Stop’ 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

It's still surreal and just baffling to me that the thing that I was working on aligned with real life in such a way. "My Dark Vanessa" author: Canceling Nabokov's "Lolita" is "missing the point" of society's problem 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Groff bestows the tales of threatened kids with the surreal sheen of fairy tales. Review | New stories from Lauren Groff, who wrote President Obama’s favorite novel in 2015 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Mr Hanshaw got the idea after going to an exhibition by Escher, the Dutch artist who created optical illusions by depicting objects that look realistic on first glance, but are actually impossible and surreal. Doctor Who fan creates new TV titles 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

It’s one of the things that made the Apple Store such a surreal place to work. We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z

Her songs are straightforward, driving and melodic, with some lightly surreal storytelling but little of the dissonance of her old band. A great year for live music: From Wilco to Eleanor Friedberger and Philip Glass 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

“For the two of us the whole journey felt a bit surreal,” he said. United by Sorrow, They Forged a Joyful Future 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

Schlemmer began developing his surreal dance work, which is performed today only as an approximated reconstruction, before the Bauhaus opened, but he completed and premiered it in 1922, while he was teaching in Weimar. At the Bauhaus, Music Was More Than a Hobby 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

“It’s a surreal experience but we are so lucky amidst all of this,” Fauntleroy, 30, said in an interview Monday. Love in the time of coronavirus: New York couple determined to tie the knot amid pandemic 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

It has been a strange and surreal wait. A fall movie season (like everything else) in flux 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

In her TruTV series — a surreal, affectionate sendup of home shows — the comic actress shows off her versatility, with help from some friends. The Best Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

A whole pandemic happened between when we filmed and now, so it’s kind of surreal. Is Stephanie Hsu the ‘Dark Horse’ of Award Season? 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

“The entire day at the White House was pretty surreal. When the President says your name before you say his, it’s like, whoa.” Hamilton’s Daveed Diggs Can’t Believe His Own Story 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Showtime first announced its intent to resurrect the surreal drama in October 2014, and the mania has been building ever since — fed, in part, by the maddening secrecy surrounding the production. “Twin Peaks”: Can a classic succeed at being happening again? 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

Rendered by later artists in ways more self-consciously surreal—or, sometimes, deliberately “poetic,” not to say pathetic—the scenes from Alice become less uncanny. Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

This being “Atlanta,” the story takes several surreal and unexpected turns. Welcome to the Future. ‘Atlanta’ Has Been Waiting for You. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

She pursues a desultory workplace romance with Victor Blue, a broken-down fellow continually in trouble with his boss for his surreally inappropriate picture and caption choices. Movie Review: ‘Consuming Spirits,’ an Animated Film by Chris Sullivan 2012-12-12T00:01:20Z

The piece is surreally kooky, the way Ovid can be, and politically sharp as he can be, too. Can We Ever Look at Titian’s Paintings the Same Way Again? 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

The levels of violence are insanely high; the screen is surreally sprayed with gore, and the fight choreography surpasses movie quality. Spartacus: box set review 2013-04-18T14:00:02Z

Cairns’  production is the one weak point, replacing Buñuel’s surreal elegance with what comes across as an operatic “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

There was something surreal in the crystal stainlessness of her delivery and tone. On the Hypnotic “Room 25,” Noname Comes of Age 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

The landmark American honeymoon destination — in all its kitschy glory — provides the backdrop for a surreal roller coaster of romantic ideals and disappointments in “Niagara Falls” at Theatre of Note. Honeymoon central makes an existential backdrop in 'Niagara Falls' 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

What we said: Crazily surreal, engaging and funny in the best Marvel tradition, building to a whiplash-twist reveal that sports with the ever-present idea of duplicity and betrayal within the Avengers’ ranks themselves. The best films of 2016 so far 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Living one dollar at a time, building up armor, gazing into the bottom of a trash can — these are ideas that become a surreal metaphor for life on the streets. Ry Rocklen's sly sculptures: There's more than what you might see at first 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Breakers is a surreal place to witness just the sort of real dilemmas that come with being young and beautiful and not yet entirely sure what’s what in the world. Real “spring breakers” don’t have happy endings 2013-03-29T16:01:00Z

While Henry’s early albums were clearly indebted to Dylan and Waits, his songs were already distinctive: erudite and surreal. Joe Henry and the Art of Disappearing Into a Song 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

James Poniewozik asked in his review in The Times, before concluding: “It is the same. And it is different. And that’s a wonderful, surreal, hilarious thing.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Jessica Jones’ and ‘Atlanta’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

It all adds to the slightly surreal experience. Tripping the light fantastic 2012-08-10T14:36:18Z

The story thus ends up shrinking, unable to meet its surreal central image halfway. Review: Sisters Plot Their Escapes From ‘Napoli, Brooklyn’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

The surreal drawings were inspired by vintage American cartoons and Woodring’s dreams. Arty happenings in Seattle the week of Jan. 27 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Her ideas included “weird couple photos with a surreal twist,” Dan said, such as posing with a banana and several life-size cardboard cutouts. Meet the ‘Crocodile of Wall Street’ rapper accused of laundering billions of dollars in crypto 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z

Not only are the two Luis Buñuel films that Sondheim and the playwright David Ives took as their inspiration maximally surrealist, they are also surreal in different, seemingly incompatible ways. ‘Here We Are’ Review: The Last Sondheim, Cool and Impossibly Chic 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z

He wants to shake them up and leave them thinking about his genre-defying, surreal apocalyptic thriller. Darren Aronofsky on 'mother!' : 'We want to shake audiences' 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Seabrook is a surreal escape on many levels, and some residents have joked about living on the set of “The Truman Show.” For a Seattle writer, trips to the Olympic Peninsula made time to reconnect with outdoors, others 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

"It was very surreal," said Jack, as he described the moment he landed in Port au Prince. The Good King Joffrey 2013-11-08T08:23:00Z

Last night’s episode of “Louie” is a surreal, tragic and utterly brilliant short film. Louie does gender performance, pegging, and contemplates being a woman 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

“The Lobster” is often startlingly funny in the way it proposes its surreal conceits, and then upsettingly grim in the way it follows through on them. Review: In ‘The Lobster,’ Colin Farrell Plays a Divorced Man in a Loner-Hating Society 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Capturing that amazement and much more besides, Doug Pray’s sneakily compelling documentary “Levitated Mass” accompanies the 340-ton boulder on its surreal journey from the California desert to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. ‘Levitated Mass’ Chronicles a Boulder’s Trip to Los Angeles 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

When the clipped and costive British voiceover finally delivers the GPO's message, it seems like the final surreal touch. MoveTube: there's a pot of gold at the end of this Rainbow Dance 2012-11-30T09:54:00Z

“It was pretty surreal to see myself animated,” he added with a laugh. Kobe Bryant Could Add an Oscar to His Record of Wins 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

I walked into the nearly empty hall to witness the most sublime, surreal performance I have ever seen. ‘Thank You, Mr. Bowie. You Changed Our Lives.’ 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

This is what war looks in America, a surreal juxtaposition of familiar logos and brand names and a now all-too-familiar display of police response. Perspective | What perpetual war looks like in America 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z

A drive inland takes you to the surreal mountaintop Hezbollah museum, a slick and bizarre display of guerrilla tactics and weaponry by the movement, designated "terrorist" by the United States. Trip Tips: See and live history in Lebanon 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Her first time recording at the famed studio, she said, was surreal. ‘Sesame Street’ has its first Black female puppeteer 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

Glimpse a surreal world: reinvented tarot cards, a piano with three rows of rainbow-colored keys and other fanciful inventions. 2010-01-29T05:21:00Z

It was pretty amazing for me, pretty surreal. Metal singer Aaron Lewis finds second home in country music 2012-11-19T14:27:13Z

The conductor Steve Osgood brought incisive attacks and brash colors to the wildly surreal episodes of the score and drew nuanced playing from the orchestra when it mattered, in the intimate scenes. Review: ‘JFK’ Puts a Very Dark Day in an Operatic Light 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Read on for a sampling of silver-screen futures, and how they have crystallized into our baffling, surreal present: Moon Nazis and sex in space: what can we learn from movies set in 2018? 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

But everything in the Senate’s surreal and desolate visual presentation only underlined that we are light-years away from normal. Fauci Hearing: Who Were Those Masked (and Unmasked) Senators? 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

Yet it was also where, famously and surreally, the remarkable musical and theatrical life of Czechoslovakia was permitted, defiantly, to thrive; where great music was composed and performed by those condemned. Terezín: the Nazi camp where music played amid the horror 2013-04-05T16:41:48Z

If it’s entertaining, it’s due to the sheer surreal factor of seeing two accomplished thespians floundering so intently. Ishtar at 30: is it really the worst movie ever made? 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

He did, however, speak highly of his time on the surreal FXX relationship comedy “Man Seeking Woman,” which he said was “smart without being pretentious and struck the right tone.” Eric Andre Isn’t a Prankster, He’s a ‘Benevolent Attacker’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Sakuta’s intaglio prints are more surreal than gothic, and his miniature “portraits” are especially magical. ‘Twisted Impressions’ show is ghoulish, thought-provoking 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

Over all, Mr. Savage said, he was happy with his own musical family portrait, though he found watching a recent performance to be “a surreal experience.” Long Gestation: Turning ?The Kid? Into a Musical 2010-05-06T21:41:00Z

Meeting him here feels a bit like finding him on the set of one of his own productions: typically otherworldly and full of surreal encounters. Director Robert Lepage: risking it all 2012-10-08T17:31:23Z

Anechoic chambers are surreal, echoless spaces with noise levels below the threshold of human hearing. How Much Silence Is Too Much? I Found Out 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

His songs, at least from the Neutral Milk Hotel records, are charismatically surreal and naïve, pressing forward in earnest yelps; he sat and strummed their dirt-simple accompaniment with nervous precision. Critic?s Notebook: All Tomorrow?s Parties Festival at Asbury Park, N.J. 2011-10-03T22:40:06Z

For rational people and others who actually live in empirical reality, the age of Trump is surreal, maddening and unbelievable. Novelist Jonathan Lethem: "There is no allegory crude enough" to capture Trump's America 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

The five large paintings in Mary Murphy’s “Hybrids,” at IA&A at Hillyer, are surreal, sinuous and overwhelmingly pink. Review | In the galleries: Creating a world of her own 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

But this is Mr. Murakami, whose intensely popular fiction plays at the boundary between the real and the surreal, the mundane and the fantastical, regular life and irregular happenings. Haruki Murakami Says He Doesn’t Dream. He Writes. 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Projecting slides through spinning, cutout wheels, he gradually shifted from abstract fields of color and shape to an old-school psychedelic anthology of occult, religious and surreal imagery, all in frantically flickering juxtaposition. Review | With analog Music Easels, Eternal Now paints a serendipitous aural landscape 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

A surreal highpoint, for me, was this scenario: “What If a Team of Michael Jordans Played a Team of Lebron James?” The Truth Is Out There: N.B.A. Conspiracy Theories on YouTube 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z

The series finale in 1991 left multiple cliffhangers, but most notably the fate of Cooper after his surreal encounters with the killer spirit Bob and his own evil doppelganger in the show's other-worldly Black Lodge. No spoilers! 'Twin Peaks' premiere urges guests to keep secret 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

It’s surreal — but then, so is building an upscale grocery paradise next to an industrial Superfund site. How Three Quirky Sitcoms Capture the New York Hustle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

It’s a surreal experience: for a few days the world is turned upside down, the minority is suddenly the majority. 20,000 lesbians in the desert: welcome to the Dinah, a world without men 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Meghan described the "incredibly surreal day" when she and her fiance visited Queen Elizabeth II, Harry's grandmother, to choose a tiara for her to wear during the wedding ceremony. Meghan Markle's Givenchy wedding gown goes on display at Windsor Castle 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

That feeling of excitement, the surreal nature of it is the best, it was great. Paul Rudd 'Never Imagined' Starring in a Marvel Film 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Pan makes the surreal events hover somewhere between magical realism and hallucination, with lush details of Leigh’s time in Taipei providing an expansive look inside Taiwanese culture. Dark Magic and Other Escapes in These Summer Y.A. Novels 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

It's the morning after the night before, and he's feeling "kinda shocked, kinda surreal". Apichatpong Weerasethakul: eclectic dreams 2010-05-24T21:01:00Z

“I’m just kind of dipping my toes into the waters in one of the biggest male roles in the business right now, and it’s kind of surreal.” Actors of Indian descent proud to lead Broadway’s ‘Aladdin’ 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

I once had an almost surreal conversation with a woman whose husband had left her and two young children, unceremoniously, for a more glamorous option – and listened to her fervently blame the other woman. I think my dad’s girlfriend takes advantage of him. How can I get over my anger at her? 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

Mr. Miranda, speaking backstage after the performance, called the afternoon surreal. Starring on Broadway, Obama and Alexander Hamilton 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z

The mossy heather zone above 3,500 metres was surreal: Unesco calls it “Africa’s botanical big game”. Mountains of the moon: climbing Uganda's highest peak 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

Hell is a surreal distillation of old second world war films, re-enacted by boy's toys. Why the art of war is hell 2013-07-25T14:36:27Z

Some pieces are short and surreal, others realistic, and the collegiate elements of some works are trumped by passion, variety and authenticity. Bad cops, anguished mothers and humor too: 'In Response' looks at racism through different eyes 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Was there a particular moment where you began to observe the comic and sometimes surreal nature of the cultural collision between Chinese people and American people? "American Factory" filmmakers on how the Dayton-set doc became one of the year's most joyful movies 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

For the episode about Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surreal “The Holy Mountain,” he dug into the movie’s iconography by getting a tarot reading. Those movie nerds behind the video-store counter are back — and they’re doing podcasts 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

In a recent interview, Nenov said it was sometimes “surreal” to be discussing sparkly outfits and dance performances as Russian bombs fell on Ukraine. How Liverpool Put on a Song Contest for Ukraine 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

Ms. Chu’s rough-cut and painted wood and ceramic figures of half-human animals, inspired by Chinese tomb sculptures, have proposed versions of the natural world simultaneously real and surreal. Art Trek: From Hot to Schlock: Holland Cotter Tours Chelsea Galleries 2014-04-03T22:41:59Z

On the screen this seems an offhand surreal comic gesture, just like the sheep being taken to the backyard. 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday, as surreal scenes unfolded, some Fox anchors and commentators couldn’t seem to change their tune, even as they tut-tutted about violence. Perspective | The pro-Trump media world peddled the lies that fueled the Capitol mob. Fox News led the way. 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

The idea of Venus Williams dropping by for a visit was surreal to Pruitt, born in Houston and based in the Bronx. Behind 3 Champions’ Smithsonian Portraits 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

Ayiva and Abas are in Algeria as the film opens, and their onward journey with a few dozen men and women seesaws between the surreal and the horrific. In ‘Mediterranea,’ Two Migrants Speak for Many 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

“At the start of the quarantine, I wanted to capture this surreal and historical moment in which New York had become a virtual ghost town,” she writes via email. In pandemic, travel pros repurpose their gear to entertain kids, haul groceries and stay comfy 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

And in between, the unexplained, the surreal, and the accident. Why do we love to look at strangers’ family photographs? 2013-04-11T16:58:00Z

“It was kind of a surreal, bizarre experience,” she said. QVC’s David Venable: The Man Who Helps America Cook 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

She added later, “As much as I like observational gags, I also like things that are more surreal.” At The New Yorker, the Cartoonists Draw, but the Vision Is Hers 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

The story is interestingly windy enough, but it’s these otherworldly sounds and fluidly surreal, pastel-colored images that will leave you entranced. ‘Cryptozoo’ Review: Wild Things 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

The South Korean novelist Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction on Tuesday for her surreal, unsettling novel, “The Vegetarian,” about a woman who believes she is turning into a tree. Han Kang Wins Man Booker International Prize for Fiction With ‘The Vegetarian’ 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

My childhood dinner times were often bizarre, sometimes surreal and occasionally quite terrifying. 70s dinner party food: If only we’d had Instagram back then 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

Hearing the late composer’s own voice is quite affecting, and there is a surreal quality to the scene. ‘Without You’ Review: Anthony Rapp’s Seasons of Love, and Loss 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

His “Something Something Über Alles” is the surreal tale of a man whose resemblance to Hitler gets him into all kinds of scrapes and misadventures. Behind the Persian Veil: Theater Illuminating the Iranian Experience 2011-03-02T22:14:54Z

How that got translated was, this new comedy show will be a surreal experience for the audience. ArtsBeat: Force of Habit: Seth Green and 'Robot Chicken' Return to 'Star Wars' 2010-12-13T16:42:00Z

Very good jokes, less good jokes, clever jokes, stupid jokes, visual jokes, knowing jokes, new jokes, old jokes, surreal jokes, puns, nods, winks. TV review: Bad Sugar; A Touch Of Cloth; C4's 30 Greatest Comedy Shows; Murder: Joint Enterprise 2012-08-26T22:00:01Z

“Weirdo Night,” her popular, long-running monthly variety show in Los Angeles, which she summed up as a “live ‘Muppet Show’ meets demented queer ‘Star Search,’” has become a Mecca for the surreal. A Queer Punk Vaudevillian’s Surreal Take on ‘Titanic’ 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

These surreally abstract games will serve as a corrective. Virtual Reality: From Guitar Gods to Birds of Prey 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

In a smoky, surreal visitation, Jenkins encounters three Black men dressed in dark suits, cotton gloves and masks of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford smeared with shoe polish. Ulysses Jenkins: Journeys of a Video Griot 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

Produced through a partnership with London's V&A Museum, this storybook tells the tale of Clara Button's surreal day out at the museum, with an engrossing storyline and links to the real-world exhibits. The 50 best apps for children 2012-08-04T16:24:08Z

Her next novel, “Ghost Boys,” which Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will publish next spring, is a surreal tale that tackles recent police shootings and the country’s long history of racially motivated crimes. Where Fiction and Reality Collide: Books and Black Lives Matter 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

That it premiered in 2016 matters little, because the surreal mental and spiritual contortions shaping the episode's comedy are inspired by the same political and social reality in which we currently exist. This Juneteenth, "Atlanta" will give you all the insights you need on how America co-opts a holiday 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

The surreal juxtaposition of the neon uterus armed with boxing gloves “speaks to the fight and struggle we’ve been through and have ahead of us,” Ms. Buckman said. In Hollywood, Another Sign of Women Punching Back 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Collins’s photographs possess a surreal quality, and the style of particular scenes in Poe’s film resembles them. How the World of ‘Selah and the Spades’ Was Created 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

It was a fairly surreal experience excising my smiling face from the pictures taken outside the chapel. Why we should learn to embrace failure | Elizabeth Day 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

America at present is already a surreal nightmare. "Little Bird": The terrifying possibility of what a Christian nationalist America could look like 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

By the end of that first season, it wasn’t only nature that seemed surreal, but also the kindness of people. Perspective | When I was 15, a psychiatric hospital nearly ruined my life. This advice saved me. 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

Last year he was an alien on a huge wooden spaceship, adding to the already surreal atmosphere. The crazy world of Burning Man – festival survival guide 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

Philip Gefter, a photography critic, wrote in an email that Mr. Uelsmann “artfully juxtaposed his very precise photographs of actual objects, creating unusual incongruities to surreal effects.” Jerry Uelsmann, Surreal Image-Maker, Dies at 87 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

Accompanied on and off by an erstwhile suitor, a boxer named Wood Mountain, Pixie descends into a delirious toxic urban scene that is nearly surreal. Fighting to Save Their Tribe From Termination 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

The official documents surrounding the meeting were deliciously surreal, starring Watergate figures who armed the president with narcotics-related talking points and proposed a rock-star led antidrug campaign called “Get High on Life.” ‘Elvis & Nixon’ Is Based on a Strange, Real-Life Meeting 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

“It’s stunning,” he said, “the lush, surreal use of lilacs and red and deep purple.” Hammer Makes ?The Woman in Black? With Daniel Radcliffe 2012-01-27T23:30:09Z

What’s most surreal about Oklahoma City, as brilliantly rendered in Anderson’s wild and gusty history, is that this city is for real. Oklahoma City, the Ultimate ‘Boom Town,’ Rendered Vivid and Surreal 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t even the 4,000- to 5,000-year-old bristlecone pines — a stark, surreal grove of gnarled, ancient wonders that have withstood all that this cold, harsh world has thrown at them. A Nevada Park That, at 77,000 Acres, Sneaks in Under the Tourist Radar 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

In other words, it's surreal and strange and goes in unpredictable directions. Moby is happily boring now: "I look at the desperation that I had ... I don't glorify the past" 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

It awoke in mid-October, just in time for a political event so ridiculous that even Zaltzman at his most surreal couldn’t have imagined it. There's a search for a fifth meat – and 19 other things podcasts taught us in 2016 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Sitting in an immense and surreal landscape, with its broad palette of dusky reds and browns beneath a vast sky, it is one of the most sublime settings for a town in North America. Searching for the Ancestral Puebloans 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

The suit further alleged that both works adopt a similar “dreamy” and “surreal” mood and rely on “fantasy sequences” of the main character. Playwright's family sues The Shape of Water film-makers over works' similarities 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

It's surreal, far away, not related to us. The horrors of terrorism makes travel an imperative not a luxury 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

Each kind of scene has its own body language: A police interrogation scene involves a surreal use of sideways-shuffling steps on both sides, as if suggesting obliqueness and evasion. ‘John’ at the National Theater in London 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

To add yet another surreal element to the video, you slowly notice that the show is being narrated by a voice you have known forever: Curt Gowdy’s. The real Grizzly Man: No one knows brown bears like Vietnam vet, monkey-wrencher, wild man Doug Peacock 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

The return of the record decades after he had last seen it was “totally unexpected and positively surreal,” Mr. Hamill said on Twitter. Mark Hamill, a ‘Star Wars’ Star, Gets His Record Back 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Hill is obsessed with animals, like most surreal comedians. Comedy gold: Harry Hill's Hooves 2012-07-05T15:39:32Z

Compellingly played by Selva Rasalingham, he is reflective and wry, describing the surreal experience of standing amid rioters watching his home burn to the ground. London theater turns England's riots into a drama 2011-11-24T16:08:14Z

His second act is more unsparing and harrowing, with seductions that take the form of surreal scenes tangling racial and sexual anxieties. Review: Mozart Reimagined in a Violent, Racist World 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

These early works create a surreal art-history pick'n'mix, from illustrations of classical sculpture to old black-and-white , and similar forms are echoed from work to work. Artist of the week 192: Sara VanDerBeek 2012-06-07T09:27:20Z

It's very, very surreal. when I woke up I thought, I've got to be dreaming. Oscar extends warm welcome to newcomer nominees 2011-01-25T22:23:04Z

It’s so surreal, this life we live and that we’re able to share these moments with each other. Hailee Steinfeld on Her New EP and Taylor Swift's Squad 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

It's been totally surreal, for a long time. Beasts of the Southern Wild: 'I didn't expect people to like it' 2012-10-11T20:00:03Z

His appearance sends the movie in a slightly more surreal direction, but the stranger “Tyrel” gets, the more accurate it feels. ‘Tyrel’ Review: Drowning in a Whirlpool of Drunken Dudes 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

In a departure from Clarke’s beloved, lengthy “Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell,” this slim, hypnotic novel takes place in a surreal house where the lone inhabitant spends his days exploring the seemingly infinite halls. 50 notable works of fiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

He bought “Petri Dish,” a small, vibrantly surreal interior by the New York painter Walter Price for $12,000 at the booth of the Modern Institute, a gallery based in Glasgow. ‘Basquiat Factor’ and a Glut of Options Stoke Sales at Art Basel 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

Seen from above, the effect is surreal and engrossing, a two-dimensional riddle of color and slow, gentle motion. Exhibits at Hirshhorn, Kreeger museums offer a break from the bustle

“This is just another surreal aspect of my life,” he said. Bret Easton Ellis Takes In ‘American Psycho’ the Musical 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

The giant universal vistas of Asgard, Jotunheim and Earth are created with surreal brio. The 20 best Marvel films – ranked! 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

The original music video for the Pet Shop Boys’ version, an exuberantly surreal pageant, includes shots of Red Square and Vladimir Lenin. Review: In ‘Mountains May Depart,’ Jia Zhangke Shows a Changing China 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Born and raised in the US, Kushell nonetheless grew up plugged in to the dark and surreal comedy of the UK. Is assisted suicide appropriate for a sitcom? 2013-01-16T08:17:45Z

Julia Raeside The third series of this offbeat observational comedy set in a mobile phone store gets under way in surreal fashion. TV highlights 25/07/2013 2013-07-25T06:00:03Z

The set, part antique stage, part surreal ship, embraces the fable's forthright theatricality. Posner-Teller 'Tempest' stuns but lacks faith in Shakespeare 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Stonikas thinks the surreal setting of the forest and the creepiness of the Witch — played in this production by a character tenor — would be too frightening for her 5-year-old son. Local singer Marcy Stonikas stakes a claim on Seattle Opera’s main stage 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

All the guys did such a great job, so I don’t know if surreal is even the word. Ice Cube on Ghostwriting, Diss Tracks and 'Straight Outta Compton' 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

A medicated Maria struggles to get back on her feet professionally, but through a series of flashbacks, momentary reveries and surreal transitions, viewers get a sense of what it’s like to live in her head. ‘Lady Dynamite’ looks at mental illness with self-awareness and satire 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Hernán Cortés makes an appearance in one particularly surreal sequence where Silverio climbs a mountain of naked or near-naked bodies to have a discussion about deities and ideas. Surrender to Alejandro Iñárritu's Netflix movie "Bardo," a surreal "chronicle of uncertainties" 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

The whole thing’s been a very surreal experience. Tony Hale on playing Forky and the lonely lesson of ‘Veep’ 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

“It’s been a surreal experience getting in touch with that level of fame.” Mark Hamill, a ‘Star Wars’ Star, Gets His Record Back 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

“He is the archetypal eccentric whose surreal humor and flamboyant personality don’t hide his deep devotion to Christ,” wrote Tony Cummings, the music editor for the website of Cross Rhythms, a Christian-music broadcaster in Britain. Gary S. Paxton, Whose Life of Extremes Brimmed With Music, Dies at 77 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

In many respects, the biggest Coen connection here is to “Barton Fink,” their surreal comedy about an award-winning writer who gets chewed up and spit out by a sojourn in Hollywood. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 3: The Mike Yanagita Effect 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

The production is a surreal, moving experience: sometimes mystifying but ultimately haunting. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z

It seems hard to believe even now because every day for me is still surreal, because I had no way of knowing how this was all going to turn out. Gretchen Carlson on #MeToo, from Fox News to McDonald's: "We need men in this fight" 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

The last year was a surreal time for many. Beyoncé and the Grammys’ Breakout Fashion Star 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

“He was the most surreal writer of all of us.” Phil Austin, co-founder of comedy group Firesign Theatre, dies at 74 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

As with any interview at this surreal time, talk turns to the pandemic and Silverstone has been focused on “everything” she can do. Alicia Silverstone: 'I probably behaved not as well as I could have' 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z

For the next few minutes, Shechter continued speaking, about needing to talk less and do more, about finding something real rather than something surreal. You'd Follow Them Anywhere 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Philip Makanna’s dramatic photos of striking landscapes didn’t correspond in any particular way to the narrative but added another surreal element to the unpredictable flow. Review: Robert Ashley’s ‘Crash’ Opens at Roulette 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The movie “displayed a surreal aesthetic worthy of Buñuel,” the filmmaker Alex Cox wrote in an essay about spaghetti westerns in The Times last month. DVD: New DVDs: ‘Midsomer Murders,’ ‘George Gently’ 2012-06-29T21:58:00Z

The movie achieves a surreal allure — at times, it’s hard to pay attention to the dialogue because the images and the sound design are already communicating so much. ‘The Novice’ Review: A Freshman Effort Worthy of Varsity 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

It was surreal to see them all so physically close together, to think that the last time Cosby was anywhere near these women, he allegedly had been assaulting them. Review | For years, one reporter investigated allegations against Bill Cosby — even when no one was listening 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

"I was totally daunted by it, it was so surreal. "I wrote the book just hoping people would like it. Kidman memory movie buoys author 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

This story is so weird and surreal, and the discordant sound is there to sort of play up how surreal the whole world is. Reed Morano on Directing the First Three Episodes of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

It has been a surreal experience reading a novel about a fictional pandemic in the midst of a real one. An Eerily Prescient Pandemic Novel That’s Guaranteed to Terrify 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

No entertainer could have easily managed this task, and the night had a nervous energy that made it compelling, surreal and sometimes difficult to watch. For Stephen Colbert, a Very Uncomfortable Election Night 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

"It's more surreal now kind of being here and seeing all the musicians gathering for their annual `pat on the back.'" Black Keys ready for Grammys with 5 nominations 2013-02-08T23:32:08Z

Exceptional thrillers, satires, dramas and tragedies have tackled the themes in ways that are at times frighteningly real, at others, completely surreal. A new era of secrets and spies in Hollywood 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sauper missteps in his interstitial use of American jazz, which is too historically freighted, but otherwise scores with a surreal, moving, infuriating and persuasive argument that in South Sudan there’s nothing “post” about colonialism. Critic’s Notebook: Mirror, Mirror: Sundance Hits 30 2014-01-23T22:44:05Z

While exploring a small island, they come across a fugitive hiding out in a boat left, surreally, in the treetops by floods. Mud director Jeff Nichols: 'Mark twain bottled what it felt to be a child' 2013-05-02T17:37:37Z

In Jesse Ball’s new novel, full of the author’s signature surreal flourishes, a father learns he has a fatal disease and decides to travel across the country with his young son, who has Down syndrome. 5 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

The surreal is simply real in Iquitos, the proud “Capital of the Amazon.” Iquitos, Peru: Wet and Wild 2013-09-13T17:49:30Z

A viewer could come to similar conclusions about “Homeland,” which puts a primacy on verisimilitude and background expertise yet also finds itself eclipsed by the day’s relentless, sometimes surreal headlines. Are ‘24: Legacy’ and ‘Homeland’ really worth the added anxiety right now? 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Herheim’s production takes an opera usually valued for its lush escapism and returns to it the surreal darkness, the true enchantment, of a fairy tale. Music Review: Stefan Herheim?s ?Rusalka,? at Th??tre Royal de la Monnaie 2012-03-09T23:41:56Z

But some of the earliest examples of documentary — before the word existed — were experimental and surreal. Documentaries like ‘Casting JonBenet’ mix fact and fiction. That just makes them more honest. 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Damon went on to thank his wife, children, co-stars and collaborators for letting him lead a life that is a little bit surreal and a lot artistically fulfilling. The Carpetbagger: Things We Learned at the Gothams, Crowdsourcing Edition 2012-11-27T16:15:27Z

If the sound palette seems surreal, it is no surprise coming from Ms. Neuwirth, a 48-year-old Austrian composer known for labyrinthine narratives exploring seemingly disparate influences. Olga Neuwirth Maintains Eclectic Path in Her Music 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

There was something gently surreal to the combination of opulent evening gowns and surgical masks. It’s (Almost) Business as Usual at the Salzburg Festival 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

After a few more minutes of surreal chat, the two leaders disappeared for their meeting. A Book That Captures the Singular Life of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

If you watch the Colbeard video, for instance–no, it doesn’t rely on fake-pundit humor, but most of it is very much the kind of surreal comedy Colbert might have done on the Report. Stephen Colbert and Company Are Already Writing The Late Show 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

But of course the surreal, cloistered existence that is the lot of a British royal family would breed such stately, artificial speech. ‘King Charles III’ and ‘The Ruling Class’ in London 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

So while Huston’s unmasking scene remains a showstopper, there’s something more long-lasting about the surreal image of well-dressed women scouring the Cornish bluffs for a child they want to turn into a mouse. The Witches at 30: a horror film for children that continues to terrify 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

Shooting Stars is about the baffling, the surreal, the unexpected and the unbelievably silly. TV review: Toast and Christmas Shooting Stars 2010-12-31T08:00:05Z

Yet the movie doesn’t harangue, making its points with soft voices and often surreal imagery. ‘Island of the Hungry Ghosts’ Review: Migration and Trauma on Christmas Island 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement There is something faintly surreal or dreamlike about many of Ms. Smith’s adventures. Review: ‘M Train,’ Patti Smith on All the Roads She Has Taken 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Just stepping inside the museum is a surreal experience. Dali museum centerpiece of arts-filled Tampa Bay 2011-01-20T19:28:33Z

Wade presents each surreal encounter as a manifestation of the heroine's trauma – the Mad Hatter's tea party becomes a grotesque travesty of the funeral wake introduced at the beginning. Alice 2010-06-25T20:30:00Z

One surreal tableau features the silhouette of Ms. Yoon on a screen, carrying a bow and chased by what appears to be a huge squid, its tentacles drifting outward over the screen. Bora Yoon’s ‘Sunken Cathedral,’ at the Protoype Festival 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Though hilarious, this episode is as surreal as anything in Buñuel or Dalí. Music Review: Keaton?s ?Sherlock, Jr.? With Stephen Prutsman Score - Review 2011-09-25T21:53:27Z

The surreal and unsettling power of the melted bottle image evoked the almost unimaginable horror of the moment and led him into a place beyond reportage or documentary. Shomei Tomatsu obituary 2013-01-14T15:10:46Z

It’s a surreal and rambunctious fantasy about growing up. The Weird and Vast and Periodically Devastating Music of Scott Walker 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Though there is hint of the surreal about this forest, the set looks old-fashioned, even a little paltry. Compelling Singers Lift a Muddled ‘Norma’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

The singer's earthy holler grounded it in the blues tradition, but the lyrics were wild and surreal. Captain Beefheart: dust blows forward and dust blows back - an appreciation 2010-12-18T00:37:31Z

“Atlanta,” FX’s occasionally surreal examination of human behavior, is acutely aware of the Internet. Perspective | How ‘Atlanta’ tapped into social media to create an all-encompassing viewer experience 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

In this delightful collection, realistic setups turn magical and surreal to illuminate deeper themes of marriage, gender and love. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

It was surreal because I was a person who was raised up to believe in the system. Wrongfully convicted. 21 years in prison. Pardoned by Obama. Mr. Wash reflects on a remarkable life 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

I think his dry wit, sometimes surreal plots, and technically perfect crafting of the French language, should all appeal to an anglophone literary sensibility. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

He was trapped in a surreal system that could only be described as Kafkaesque. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

“There is a sense of the surreal, but it is dramatic and melodramatic,” Blakeson said. ‘Jackie Brown’ and Tangerine Dream: What ‘I Care a Lot’ Is Made Of 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

"It was just completely surreal!" she said of the experience of standing on a French soundstage in a re-creation of the "Humpday" hotel room. Lynn Shelton: 'I never imagined I could be a filmmaker' 2012-05-12T22:34:37Z

Hoffmann’s surreal story produced one of the world’s most eidetic tales. If you liked ‘Wicked,’ you’ll be enchanted by ‘Hiddensee’ 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

Working in a surreally inflected vérité style — with few title cards or identifications other than what is spoken on screen — Mr. Sauper also has a knack for catching his subjects in unguarded moments. Review: ‘We Come as Friends’ Explores Potential Exploitation of South Sudan 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Act II grows more surreal: The Boy is in the hospital and his doctor takes to alcohol. Review: Ratmansky’s Confectionery Shop Also Serves Ballet Poetry 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

O'Brien, who said he dances "a lot, but badly -- very, very badly," called the whole experience "completely surreal." Internet's 'Dancing Man' sashays his way to Hollywood for 'party of a lifetime' 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

But don't you just adore this surreally brilliant way of pursuing what oligarchs call a "strategy of visibility"? The celebrity-studded charity event that raised more questions than cash 2011-07-14T19:00:02Z

Then it travels to one of the most surreal places on earth so that the Branch family can, at long last, resolve the real troubles that underlie the book’s humor. Books of The Times: ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette,’ a Maria Semple Novel 2012-08-06T18:53:15Z

Her favorite scene from the webcomic is Nick and Charlie’s first kiss, which was surreal to see turned into television, she said. ‘Heartstopper’ Is a TV Love Story With the Soul of a Comic 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

Was it surreal seeing your brother, Boris Johnson, take much of the credit for organising the whole thing? Rachel Johnson: 'The "Boris's sister" thing pisses me off' 2012-11-11T00:05:25Z

“But it was surreal to see wedding jewelry being sold on the sidewalk of Fifth Avenue!” Unfamiliar Territory for Indian Bridal Industry 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Working with a soulfulness that slowly gains force, July hides real feelings inside surreal scenarios. ‘Kajillionaire’ Review: California Scheming 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

As a booming narrator takes you through each cave, turquoise and purple lights dance on the icy formations, creating a surreal, Disneyesque experience. Bypass Ibiza’s crowds and parties for Majorca’s beauty and tranquility 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

I think about going to the U.K. and seeing Sikhs working airport security and how surreal that was for me. Hari Kondabolu: "It works in the interest of those with power" to divide people of color 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

The concert that got them to Eurovision, performed in a metro station where Russian bombs couldn’t interrupt the acts, was surreal, Kehinde recalled. Undaunted by Air Raids, a Ukrainian Duo Gets Ready for Eurovision 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

There is a surreal quality to them, an artful gentleness to the lines and colors that resembles that of her photographs. Nan Goldin Survived an Overdose to Fight the Opioid Epidemic 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

This charming, surreal story, translated by Ted Goossen, reads smoothly and is without the scattered awkwardness of Philip Gabriel’s translation of “Colorless Tsukuru.” Book review: ‘The Strange Library,’ by Haruki Murakami 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Halfway through, a surreal note arrives: Two of the women turn spiderlike, transformed by dark goggles and black-and-silver costumes and headgear, each leaning on two canes. Critic’s Notebook: Dominic Walsh and Others at the Joyce Theater 2013-08-11T22:38:15Z

The musicians periodically shouted lines from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” adding to the surreal quality. Review | Eighth Blackbird exhibits 8 colorful sketches in modern music at National Gallery 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

Today, surreal is a word so overused that it means little more than something unexpected, entertaining and forgettable — perhaps a pitcher nearly throwing a no-hitter or a criminal smuggling snakes in a potato chip container. Paul McCarthy at Hauser & Wirth: A horror show on a grand, exquisite scale 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

Other dangerous objects – a long needle erect on a plinth called Forget It, a crystal sphere titled Pointedness – have a mild surreal bite, but it is not sustained. Lost in the Yoko Ono labyrinth 2012-06-18T18:03:42Z

They use guitars, drums and keyboards that were played live in studios, then manipulated and tweaked to Boots’ surreal taste. After His Coup With Beyoncé, Boots Strides Out of the Shadows 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

But her lyrics also quote a litany of California musicians and song titles — constructing the state from its pop artifacts — and the longer a song extends, the more its sound wanders toward the surreal present. Best Albums of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

She stands in relatively naturalistic contrast to Daniel Pinha’s surreal, mostly abstract set, dominated by a crazy forest of twisty, arching wires and enigmatic draped textiles. Synetic’s sweeping, sinister ‘Alice’ 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

In "Atlanta" it manifests in surreal episodes or acts within installments operating as small independent films within broader plots. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a surreal fun house, where cultish Anglo-Saxon rituals dating to America’s 18th century origins mix with a vortex of commercial culture to create a nightmarish hell-scape. New Marciano foundation proves the potential and the pitfalls of a vanity art museum 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

The video never quite finds the right surreal/deranged groove, which is odd considering that it's a collaboration between artists who pride themselves on upbeat nuttiness. The new Muppets and OK Go collaboration falls flat 2011-08-26T22:01:00Z

The rehearsal had a slightly surreal quality since only the show's new additions — Kim, Mazzie and two of the 11 Thai children — were in full costume. Replacing lead actors in long-running Broadway shows isn't unusual but getting two leads ready for their first time in a show on at the same night is rare 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Ms. Donovan, who served as the one witness Ms. Moore was allowed to have in attendance, said the ceremony “was surreal.” Grateful for a Wedding in Prison 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

The China-born artist’s surreal cartoons depict the futile attempts of a character called Bang Zha to escape a landscape of plant and body parts grafted crazily together. Review | In the galleries: A revelatory exhibition by D.C. artist Jonathan Monaghan 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Then there was the character played by Noel Fielding who started mocking the real-life Noel Fielding for his reliance on lazy surreal juxtapositions. Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy gets funnier the more it apologises for its own rubbishness 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

At times surreal, at others gloriously childish, it's like an up-to-date take on The Young Ones. Pappy's: the boys who never grew up 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z

The surreal encounter concludes with an exchange on the virtue of elephants — and Michelangelo is a bit like an aged elephant himself, wizened, grayed, rather tusked. Painting a vibrant and lush portrait of the 16th-century Ottoman empire 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

To challenge a book about what it means to challenge a book would take this conversation to a surreal level. David Levithan’s New Middle Grade Novel Tackles Book Banning 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

The Ortas' cloud people are a compromise – a bit surreal, but nevertheless firmly rooted in a figurative tradition of sculpture that might have pleased the station's original creators. Why St Pancras's Clouds sculptures are on the right track 2013-04-18T16:01:53Z

From beginning to end, it feels like the music of cataclysm: anguished, outraged, hellishly surreal. Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin Don’t Talk. They Sing. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

Other shows at the museum include “The Cloud of Unknowing,” a surreal video installation by the Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen. What's on This Week Around the World 1461-08-09T05:00:00Z

It was simple, and yet it bordered on the surreal. The power of touch: when my son visited in lockdown, we couldn't hug. It was a reminder of the saddest truth 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s a mad clash of all areas of my life piling on top of each other in this surreal cocktail of motherhood and career -- but its been grounding,” she said. Oscars 2015: Marion Cotillard a surprise in lead actress category 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

The show also features a series of close-ups of seemingly ordinary objects from clothing, machinery and flowers that are transformed with a play on light and shadow into surreal yet recognizable images. Tokyo to NYC street-life shines in Tate photo show 2012-10-09T10:54:46Z

“It really was a surreal moment,” Jeremiah agreed in a separate interview. Americans want justice for George Floyd. Keith Ellison is in charge of getting it. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

“It was so surreal to be in that studio with those guys. We will never forget it.” Brandi Carlile on ‘crazy’ Soundgarden collaboration, ‘chest-pumping Seattle pride’ 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z

Pre-pandemic parties may be mere surreal flashbacks to the average partygoer after sheltering in place for two months, but these events were the livelihoods of florists, catering companies, producers, D.J.s, performers and designers. Party Planners on Pause, Awaiting Revelry’s Return 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

But whoever the likes of Wikibeetz4wikileaks may be, Beat the Blockade is an album in the spirit of the Wiki founder: hard-hitting, informative and surreal. Wikileaks – the album: read our verdict 2012-06-29T16:56:41Z

“The fact that it was my own play will always be a little surreal for me.” Mother Trouble in Polly Stenham?s ?That Face? 2010-05-29T02:30:00Z

Wisely, the producers leaned as far into the surreal nature of the concept as possible. The Simpsons – live! A remarkable stunt that proves Homer will outlive us all 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

“It was surreal,” Robert Lindgren, the president of the college, said about learning that two members of his faculty would be squaring off in one of the highest-profile congressional races in the country. Randolph-Macon College in Ashland adjusts to spotlight as Profs. Brat, Trammell face off

"The whole thing was surreal, it happened so quickly," Halpern said. Twitter TV: A proving ground in 140 characters 2011-03-05T23:28:00Z

Through cartoon-like interactions with her boss and her team of writers, she proved to be hilarious, endearing, and surreal. How Liz Lemon inspired me to quit my job 2011-05-12T20:25:00Z

Sporting a white fright wig and a languid Australian drawl, Benedict Cumberbatch memorably portrays Assange as a single-minded iconoclast driven by a childhood trauma that is revisited obliquely in surreal flashbacks. Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-09T07:46:10Z

His surreal images, such as the famous pipe in The Treachery of Images, transformed modern art. Magical Magritte 2011-06-17T06:20:04Z

Pertinent because the story that Letts gradually unwinds — parts of which are surreally enacted before us — is about racial horror. Review: ‘The Minutes,’ an Official History of American Horror 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z

Whimsical and disaffected, that surreal dialogue provides a respite. Review | ‘The Freezer Door’ is an aching, playful memoir of vivid desire amid the desperation of midlife disconnection 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

Morning routines — first sips of coffee, reading of newspapers — are given a playful, surreal spin: What's Kinoshita doing under the table? Home is where the toaster, couch and gymnastic tussles are, in UMAMI performance's 'home | bodies' 2010-08-05T21:58:00Z

Nature footage gets a surreal twist in this mini-series, which arms animatronic animals with hidden cameras and places them alongside their real counterparts in the wild. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Normal People’ and a Virtual Play 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

That novel prefigures the surreal violence and sex in Kara Walker’s mature work, but it’s hard to find the book’s hints of redemption in her art. Kara Walker Creates a Confection at the Domino Refinery 2014-04-25T14:00:08Z

The title evokes a piece of ancient, almost mythic film history: that surreal, Orphic moment, associated in the popular mind with “The Jazz Singer,” when pictures began to talk. Movie Review: ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet,’ by Alain Resnais 2013-06-07T00:57:27Z

She is also planning her first non-solo tour, joined by a pianist, that she intends to present as a surreal variation on a classical violin-and-piano recital. Sudan Archives Is Making R&B Deeper and Stranger 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

The pieces were visually linked in a surreal staging by the avant-garde theater artist Michael Counts. Critic?s Notebook: Move From Lincoln Center Could Fortify City Opera?s Identity 2011-05-22T17:13:34Z

“It was surreal to be on the other side.” His Medium, Salted Butter. His Craft, Sublime. 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

Guests sashayed through the tent doors into a scene of surreal opulence. T Magazine: In Lagos, the 1% Takes Stock 2014-04-25T17:00:01Z

Such moments of surreal levity — like the incongruously festive throng of employees in banana-yellow underwear and cobalt-blue bathrobes — are more than welcome as we marvel at man’s rational efforts to harness the irrational. | 'Under Control': ?Under Control,? Documentary on German Nuclear Power Plants ? Review 2011-12-02T05:13:02Z

Coppola, who died in 2012, at the age of a hundred and five, produced numerous images of Buenos Aires at night, and his surreal moodiness recalls the work of Bill Brandt. Grete Stern’s Interpretation of Dreams 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The surreal details of battle and the theme of faraway powers orchestrating the slaughter of innocents are familiar, but Mr. Odoul is able to breathe some new life into them. At Film Comment Selects, Period Pieces Lead the Way 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Others include a display of collection highlights and “Constellations,” which features work by seven artists who focus on the surreal and cosmic. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Abdul becomes delusional, psychotic, disengaging from traumatic situations by transforming them into surreal dreams. The Kid by Sapphire ? review 2011-08-19T11:15:01Z

So begins a surreal Season 4 premiere, in which Diane wakes up in this new alternate reality, which she adjusts to gratefully. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Good Fight’ and ‘Les Misérables’ 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

The Gothams are a hotbed of surreal career moments, mostly involving jackets. The Carpetbagger: Things We Learned at the Gothams, Crowdsourcing Edition 2012-11-27T16:15:27Z

He once managed to convey the aura of perfume visually with the surreal image of a reclining woman’s face in profile against a sea-and-sky background. Hiro, Fashion Photographer Who Captured the Surreal, Dies at 90 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Serving little more than one brand of beer and a seemingly endless selection of mezcals, tequila's hip cousin, the tiny La Clandestina is a great place to engage in surreal late-night conversations. Trip Tips: Mexico City for the hipster and history buff 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Ryan Murphy's proto-Glee Popular was wickedly funny and surreal, and Sugar Rush did sex and drugs a year before Skins took those and ran with it. Six to watch: teen drama 2011-01-27T12:53:00Z

In these surreal pieces a man sprouts eyes that he then stabs out with scissors or murders every visitor who comes to his door. 'Made in L.A.' best in show: 5 must-see pieces at the Hammer biennial 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Working with legends such as Demi and Drew has been a surreal but wonderful experience. 'Peep Show with female losers? Bring it on!' – Sam Bain on why comedy needs diversity 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

Compelling as this tragedy is, the novel warps into something more surreal when Eddie’s mother gets lured into working as a fruit and vegetable picker at a farm called Delicious Foods. Novel will make you think twice about those beautiful fruits at the store 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

Like the surreal prison itself, Ms Wood’s writing is direct and spare, yet capable of bursting with unexpected beauty. The way of the world 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Instead, you get surreal rants and bizarre streams of consciousness obviously unmolested by the hand of any editor. Dictator-lit: Gaddafi's surreal gibberish 2010-03-24T12:46:00Z

As such, it is both pedantic and surreal. Even Harry Styles in Jorts Can’t Save Gucci’s Mini-Series 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z

As with 9/11, many New Yorkers reached for metaphors borrowed from movies and books to try to convey the surreal mood of the city. Coronavirus Notebook: Finding Solace, and Connection, in Classic Books 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

After all, what is a circus but a surreal pageant celebrating the animal side of human nature? | 'Water for Elephants': Love Triangle Sideshow, a Circus?s Main Attraction 2011-04-21T23:29:36Z

The final speaker was architect Diller, who said that after years of talking about the building in PowerPoint presentations, it felt surreal to talk about it with the real thing behind her. L.A. as the contemporary art capital of the world? Broad stakes a claim at press event 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Her father, a bus driver turned alcoholic small shopkeeper, left her mother when Galloway was four, and was dead – in an almost surreal fireworks explosion – by the time she was six. A life in books: Janice Galloway 2011-08-05T21:55:05Z

It was as surreal of a time as the premise of "Hollywood," the reason Murphy agreed to speak with me. The problem with Ryan Murphy, a potent Hollywood advocate with a habit of crossing the wrong lines 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z

This one, too, is recalled with a surreal, dreamlike fogginess. Review: ‘On Blueberry Hill’ Looks Back in Radiant Regret 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

It’s a mysterious yet playful look in tune with a tale whose 11th-hour surreal twist could give Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” a run for its money. Review | Sarah Ruhl’s quirky take on depression at Constellation 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

Neither prosaic nor clinical, it defies all expectations for a story in which the main character receives a fatal diagnosis, telling the tale in the most lively, surreal and surprising ways imaginable. Review: ‘You Will Get Sick’ Tells the Untellable, for a Price 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z

“As Jen Psaki bent over to pick up some papers, I saw a moment that seemed to capture her iconic look in a slightly surreal way.” Falling in Love 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

“It feels a little bit like, I don’t know, being in a movie. It’s very surreal,” says Evelyn Yang. The surreal lives of 2020 campaign spouses: What happens when your loved one wants to be president 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Thus ensued an unlikely and somewhat surreal turn of events in which Mr. Yoder, between glossy-magazine assignments, found himself borrowing time at a facility of Italy’s energy research agency in Frascati, outside Rome. Leonardo Mural in Florence May Be Revealed 2011-08-26T23:53:05Z

It was just, like, a surreal experience to sit there and watch it. For his latest tour, CeeLo Green is riding his train of love home 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Moving through the surreal landscape of upside-down chairs and luggage racks, tattered upholstery, grit, loose strands of emergency lights shining impotently in the darkness. Train wreck: Healing for two and parenting with PTSD 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

In a funny way, it's pretty surreal — but this is a surreal country. Scene/Seen: The Cozy Chaos of the Brussels Art World 2011-07-22T11:00:06Z

"The poems are made by combining all user tweets and finding rhymes between them, creating curious results and sometimes surreal," the center explains, via a Web translator. Poetweet: A website that turns your tweets into poetry 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

In his new play Martin Crimp has created variations – naturalistic, theoretical and surreal – on dystopia. Privates on Parade; In the Republic of Happiness; The Arabian Nights – review 2012-12-16T00:06:01Z

Here they spend a surreal and chaotic seven months doing almost nothing. This Party's Got to Stop by Rupert Thomson | Book review 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z

In the Symphonie Fantastique, the conducting revelled in the tonal possibilities of such a huge orchestra, sculpting the music in expansive sweeps and making Berlioz's scoring seem even more tinglingly surreal than usual. NYO/Bychkov 2010-08-08T11:33:00Z

“To be honest, it’s been very surreal for me,” said Ms. Maslany, dressed in faded denim pedal pushers, an oversize print blouse and bright red lipstick. Tatiana Maslany Plays Many Characters in ‘Orphan Black’ 2014-04-17T12:00:01Z

But at a surreal moment, when much of live TV was stuttering and stumbling, Toobin’s voice was both authoritative and riveting. Perspective | Jeffrey Toobin went ballistic about Trump and Comey. It was great TV. 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

Indeed, it was West's wacky, wooden and surreal turn as millionaire Bruce Wayne and Batman that helped turn the series into an instant hit. Adam West returns in 'Batman' series' digital release 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

“Grae” delves even further inward — it’s hard to imagine many of its songs being performed onstage, even before the pandemic — even as it encompasses more sonic possibilities, from the orchestral to the surreal. Moses Sumney and Perfume Genius: Complex Voices of Desire 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z

In a surreal world, she makes it suburb. The best breakout TV performances of the year, from twins and vamps to werewolves and superheroes 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z

We’ve finally stopped eating pizza and, after a surreal episode with some kind of significant cake, it’s now – at gone 3am – time for the results. World Pizza Championships: where dough-obsessed divas battle it out 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

And their culture has roots in Kafka and the surreal. For young Soviets, the Beatles were a first, mutinous rip in the iron curtain 2013-04-20T13:00:01Z

The nominee luncheon was a capstone for many on the long, often surreal awards trail. Nominees gather to bask, kibbutz at annual luncheon 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Baker’s wife, Susan Glasser, who was also at The Post, had a “surreal discussion” with a senior male editor about what constituted getting to third base. The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal was embarrassing to talk about — but changed how we discuss sex 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

What is remarkable about “Hir” is not its woolly, dark vision of an American family run amok, but the flawed and real humanity that simmers beneath all the surreal comedy. Review: ‘Hir’ Sorts Through a Family in Transition 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

It was her first — a novel about a mother who loses custody of her toddler after one “very bad day,” and then, in a surreal twist, is sent to an experimental “school for good mothers.” How to Get Published: A Book’s Journey From ‘Very Messy’ Draft to Best Seller 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

Sacramental and surreal, the story serves as the throbbing, peculiar heart of the collection. A Visceral and Fabulist Short Story Collection Filled With Roots, Inheritance and Blood 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

It’s so surreal to have the promotion of this movie coming so soon after that abject tragedy. Zachary Quinto on Gay Hollywood and Why Star Trek Beyond Is the Perfect Movie for Right Now 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

His work blends the abstract with the figurative with the downright surreal. 5 artists to watch from 'The Best American Comics of 2014' 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

"So, being able to share this with your best friends is just surreal," she added. California triplets are pregnant at same time: ‘A dream come true’ 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

That discipline plays dividends in the finale, which Gielen presents like a series of vivid, surreal images. Mahler: Symphony No 7 – review 2013-07-11T21:40:00Z

Be prepared for off-key tunes, horror makeup, surreal patter and a blizzard of chortles. 5 holiday shows to round out the season 2012-12-27T21:18:27Z

"If we were going to show it, we wanted to bring it right into the museum where you were thinking about sculpture and paintings — where hopefully it fits, but also looks even more surreal." Rain Room at LACMA is an indoor storm where the water is recycled and you won't get wet 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Issues of old pulp fiction magazines sit on top, along with magnifying glasses, and drawers reveal Rorschach tests and books on psychology and surreal art. ‘Liminality’ Is Theater of the Mind That Explores the In-Between 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

Wacky, surreal, insanely playful, "Mood Indigo" is a film that believes that too much is not enough. Michel Gondry's 'Mood Indigo' is wildly inventive 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

For the last three years, he’s played musical emcee on Scott Aukerman’s IFC series “Comedy Bang! Bang!,” a talk show parody that plays to Watts’ improv-heavy strengths with deadpan asides and surreal non-sequiturs. Reggie Watts, the weirdest guy on late night TV: How “The Late Late Show” bandleader is redefining the sidekick role 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

From the surreal, sun-baked wilderness, they find themselves in the chaos of Baghdad, from where they journey grimly onwards. Son of Babylon ? review 2011-02-10T22:44:01Z

"This was a surreal approach to the subject matter," says executive producer Andre Singer. Oscars: Reporter's diary 2014-02-04T17:20:33Z

His can-do, take-charge character is in continual zany contrast to his surreal surroundings. 'Keyhole': a mad Maddin adventure 2012-06-14T20:44:05Z

“Any resemblance to a person with this name is an unfortunate and surreal coincidence. I am sorry about all he has experienced.” Lena Dunham and the challenges of memoir 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Tate Modern Joan Miró may be most often thought of as a painter of mysterious dreamscapes and surreal imagined landscapes. Joan Mir?'s Tate Modern show reveals the surrealist master's politics 2010-11-19T20:11:00Z

In "Gray Trio," a sort of surreal tea set, form is everything and color is as neutral as possible. Urns, ferns and cabinets full of wonders ? Dante Marioni makes marvels out of glass 2010-08-12T20:28:00Z

It was just a really surreal, exciting, beautiful thing to do. Ellie Goulding on Dating Skrillex, Singing “Lights,” and Performing for William and Kate 2012-07-27T18:20:35Z

My theory is that when we see the surreal, paranormal and supernatural on film, it represents insanity. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

In any event, an idea that could have been heavy-handed seems a surreal touch in sync with the overall concept. Review: A Masterful ‘Lulu’ at the Met 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Some of his most essential showcases – Jan Troell’s stirring, beautiful family saga The Emigrants and The New Land; Ingmar Bergman’s shattering, surreal wartime marriage study Shame – can only be found on DVD in the UK. Streaming: curate your own Max von Sydow season 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z

Jean Dujardin arrived in the wee hours and had a doubly surreal moment, watching his best-actor acceptance speech play out on a reel at the party. Vanity Fair?s Oscar Party Awash in Celebrities 2012-02-28T20:01:29Z

Are they anachronisms or elements of the surreal or slyly placed hooks that tether the narrative to another period, perhaps our own? A Grisly Fable of Ottoman Albania 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

He described a “surreal depression” among everyone in attendance. Publishers are reeling from Trump's win, but the news is not all bad 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Instead it’s moody and emotional, a real world nudged just a few degrees surreal, and it’s grounded by some excellent, plausible performances. TV Review: The Returned 2013-10-30T09:30:40Z

Some are reasonable-if-shaky imitations, while others descend quickly into surreal chaos. 6 Podcasts to Make Sense of A.I. 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

One reason is that she is subject to dreams and surreal visions that today might be seen as symptoms of post-traumatic stress. Review: In ‘Fireflies,’ the Preacher’s Wife Gets Her Say 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

When Han Kang’s surreal, violent novel “The Vegetarian” was published in South Korea nearly a decade ago, literary critics found it baffling. ‘The Vegetarian,’ a Surreal South Korean Novel 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

The effect was surreal and even discomforting, suggesting an underplay of the Freudian thoughts and serious issues that have previously touched the designer’s runway. Special Report: Fashion: Giving a Rebel Yell 2010-10-03T17:03:00Z

They are "joyously surreal, set in landscapes full of toffee, deferential choirs of badgers, heavenly water-slides and velvet chairs," she said. JP Martin's elephant Uncle unforgotten in fan's republishing plan 2013-03-27T17:06:55Z

He manages to create the most surreal atmospheres for you, which you don’t want to leave. Artists on Artists to Watch, and Maybe Even Collect 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

Driver, who stars in another prominent Cannes movie, Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman”, said it was “surreal” to be working with directors whose work he grew up watching. Haunted by Don Quixote for 25 years, Terry Gilliam finally gets his... 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z

Waiting felt like being in a film; almost surreal. Experience: my namesake found me after 24 years 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

“Super Natural,” as its title suggests, is epic in scale and surreal in character. August brings extravagance at Seattle art galleries 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

“It was surreal to see it as a play.” Divisive Battle Over Elián González Reverberates on a Miami Stage 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

Few movies capture the surreal comedy and engulfing horror of the money-driven world as piercingly as “Stonewalling.” ‘Stonewalling’ Review: A Young Woman’s Exchange Value 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

And later this month, he will be in Washington to accept his Kennedy Center Honor for a career that still seems surreal — but may be the exact one he was meant to have. Everyone wants Garth Brooks on their side. He just wants everyone to get along. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

The book attempts to articulate how essential and inextricable performance is to masculinity, and how surreal — and sometimes dangerous, for us and for the people we encounter — that can be. Damon Young on the ‘Absurdity’ of Being Black 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

It's farcical, surreal and there are plenty of jokes for grown-ups, hence its cult appeal among stoned students. Take five: box sets for primary school-age kids 2012-08-28T11:00:22Z

The surreal nature of that incident offers an airplane-size window on the compliant protagonist of Tyler’s 22nd novel. Review | ‘Clock Dance,’ Anne Tyler’s 22nd novel, feels familiar — for better and worse 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

He reflects: “Yet amid the surreal chaos, where nothing was fair or made sense, it seemed that all my parents’ good deeds added up to a shield just strong enough to keep us alive.” ‘The Bosnia List:’ revisiting the war that tore Yugoslavia apart 2014-03-05T20:45:47Z

With Mr. Hadreas’s aching, androgynous voice at their center, the songs deploy cinematic orchestral arrangements, spooky electronics and instruments that can sound vividly natural or treated and surreal. Perfume Genius Grows Brasher and More Introspective on ‘No Shape’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

And finally, this weekend's midnight movie at the Egyptian is the Seattle premiere of "The Theatre Bizarre," a surreal tale in which six bizarre stories are unfolded in a mysterious theater. At A Theater Near You: 'Street Angel,' 'Baron' costume contest 2012-01-26T21:18:03Z

The evening was, in Bates’s words, devoted to music “of heightened emotion, from surreal dream-world to ecstatic love.” A pleasant, if not ravishing, KC Jukebox 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

The situation was changing from surreal to dangerous. Experience: I was attacked by a seal 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Jason McLean, “Soda Gardner,” at Wilding Cran Gallery. Drawing, painting and random found objects find their way into surreal landscapes, abstract doodles and cartoon-like figures. Datebook: Word paintings, dance on film, and art about roller skating 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Ladies and gentlemen, this year’s word of the year is “surreal.” Closely associated with tragedy, ‘surreal’ is also the word of 2016 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

He closed with the surreal "Lake Marie," which alternates between spoken verses and a sung chorus — "standing by peaceful waters" — that gathered irony as the tale unfolded. Americana master John Prine at Ste. Michelle 2011-09-10T17:32:04Z

The tone also shifts from intense drama to slapstick comedy to something surreal. The surreal manipulation of "Black Bear," a comic thriller with answers that "hover out of reach" 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

A potential customer takes a closer look at the surreal display. Five Minutes in an Underground Espresso Bar 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z

As the acute threat of Covid-19 has waned, it has become easy to forget the surreal devastation of the early days of the pandemic, and the fissures the period exposed in our society. ‘Fire Through Dry Grass’ Review: Unsafe Space 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z

They strike sparks and the film permits them some engaging and faintly surreal comedy in the dialogue. Cannes 2012: Broken ? review 2012-05-18T16:32:40Z

There are plenty of strange details here, but nothing truly surreal. China Mieville's 'The Last Days of New Paris' makes the surreal real 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

The answer — “no” — becomes cosmically funny as the road unwinds before them through some surreal and astonishing landscapes. Best children’s and YA books for March 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

But it's sentimental and glutinous, and the ending is almost surreal in its contrivance and unbelievability. Trouble with the Curve – review 2012-11-29T21:30:04Z

The lyrical effusions of the second movement were answered with crisp changeability; the finale had a surreally martial undercurrent. Review: Schumann at the Philharmonic. Robert, Too. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Its success will depend on whether audiences embrace or loathe Klang's slapstick, which veers towards the rambunctious rather than the surreal. Our Drugs War 2010-08-16T05:45:00Z

The clip, which Boucher wrote, directed, and edited herself, collects surreal scenes and dance numbers. Watch Grimes' Surreal New Music Video 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

And even for someone who doesn’t believe in the surreal, the link between the championship drought and the 108 stitches on a baseball should raise some goose bumps. The Chicago Cubs should have stayed cursed: Their World Series win is one of the worst things that could happen to baseball 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

This seems right: The gaps in his surreal fables are the dark interstices in which new sympathies may fester. Review | In ‘Endland,’ Tim Etchells finds squalid humor in post-Brexit Britain 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

In 1987, they put on the first Bang on a Can Festival, a 12-hour marathon that they billed as an “eclectic supermix of composers and styles from the serial to the surreal.” How a Scrappy Arts Group Survived the ’90s 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

And the steam of those who Shine is one of Mr. King’s best surreal inventions. Books of The Times: ‘Doctor Sleep’ Is Stephen King’s Sequel to ‘The Shining’ 2013-09-15T21:53:08Z

"I felt a little bit nervous just because being around people is such a surreal thing after so long," Moran said. Many Americans resume pre-pandemic activities: AP-NORC poll 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

This is not to say the season's latest developments aren't their own version of surreal; they are. "The Good Fight" dreams up a Hillary Clinton timeline we've all wondered about 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

While remaining a teacher, he began writing, performing and recording his surreal songs, usually accompanying himself on the harmonium. The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler 2014-03-31T23:04:52Z

During the 1990s, the song's vivid imagery was even used to sell car tyres in a surreal nightmarish TV advert. Lou Reed: In his own words 2013-10-28T13:32:31Z

When some fans asked if he could simply turn them off so they could listen, he fiddled with his phone between songs, happy to make the surreal experience a little less invasive. How Blake Mills became good at everything 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

Nor is it anarchic, or surreal, or painful, or rude, or clever, which are other acceptable ways for modern to be. link text 2012-08-17T21:01:01Z

However astonishing, Wobble's musical travels avoid pretension, grounded by the Trilby-hatted Cockney geezer's mischievous, surreal humour. Jah Wobble & the Nippon?Dub?Ensemble 2010-08-06T20:46:00Z

Singer, Edelstein writes, is "reborn — deft, elegant, spring-heeled — in 'X-Men: Days of Future Past.' The special effects don't bog him down: They lift the movie to a surreal and more emotional dimension." 'X-Men: Days of Future Past': Singer, super cast succeed, reviews say 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Duchess — she doesn’t fancy “the” — is given to the surreal wit perfected by comedian Steven Wright. Review | In ‘Becoming Duchess Goldblatt,’ a Twitter celebrity is ready for her close-up — but her creator remains a mystery 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

Jones, moving into for the first time, has remained true to his more surreal sensibilities. Monty Python's Terry Jones sinks his teeth into canine opera 2011-04-08T21:00:01Z

Realism in Qing art, however, often veers into the surreal, as is evident in a mesmerizingly bizarre furniture ensemble. Art Review: A Man of Contradictions, With a Collection to Match 2011-02-03T23:00:07Z

Later the moon arrived, bathing the cliffs in a surreal silvery glow. The U.S. Issue: The Mighty Colorado at a Glide 2010-05-14T21:08:00Z

The goal is to evoke high school with a surreal twist. Inside MoMA PS1’s Back to School Bash 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Among its previously unpublished stories and the two most recently published ones, we find the surreal, the nonlinear, the essayistic, the pointillist. Zadie Smith Experiments With Short Fiction 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Portland is a smaller place, obviously, but it’s a little surreal for us, too, I think. Portlandia's Carrie Brownstein: The Word 'Hipster' Doesn't Mean Anything Anymore 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

His work was mordant, surreal, and fiercely intelligent. Neil Gaiman: 'Iain Banks was one of us, whatever that meant' 2013-06-09T22:57:04Z

Her study brims with artfully pinned specimens, and she lectures on insects at an institute where everyone is female, including several mannequins in the audience — the movie's most overt touch of the surreal. 'The Duke of Burgundy' a mesmerizing sexual thriller 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

“It was surreal, I felt like I was in shock,” Jennings said. Ken Jennings talks James Holzhauer ‘feud,’ Brad Rutter’s losses and that brutal Bloomberg tweet 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

“That was surreal,” she said of watching the curators treat her clothes like artifacts. Margo Price, Nashville Outsider, Tells It Like It Really Is 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

She runs away with two of her daughters, very young children, and her actual story is far more surreal and dangerous. Avoiding Sectarian Violence to Tell a Story That Refused to Go Away 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

“It’s surreal to be up here,” he said halfway through the evening, when he took to the stage with a guitar. Scene City: A Party for Darren Criss 2012-01-11T23:11:27Z

The sound was the beep-beep of the radio signal emitted by Sputnik, the first satellite sent into space, as it streaked on its elliptical path at a surreal velocity of 18,000 miles per hour. Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Circus elephants and palm tree jungles combine surreally. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

But in the end, Damon's cameo was yet another moment that was considered a little too surreal, so the scene was cut before it got to the filming stage. 20 surprising facts about "Bridesmaids" 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

“Adventure Time” grew from its sword-and-sorcery origins to become something surreal and difficult to define. How ‘Adventure Time’ Became a Talent Factory for a Generation of Animators 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

“My friends from Canada are saying, ‘It must be surreal doing that play in D.C. right now.’ Lillian Hellman is once again a presence in Washington 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

These images overlap with the beginning of the haunting music of the Polovtsian scene, set in a wondrous, almost surreal field of red poppies, a captivating way to depict the lure of the East. Music Review: A New Vision for ‘Prince Igor’ at the Met 2014-02-07T11:38:03Z

But at least we got one season of this wild specimen, an often surreal look at friendship and contemporary womanhood. Best TV Shows of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

And the Swiss playwright Lukas Barfüss’s unsettling and surreal version of the closing scene, where the erotic carousel comes full circle, is similarly disorienting and cryptic. In Salzburg, New Lives for Two Scandalous Plays 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

It was a fittingly surreal end to a surreal season, one full of hand-wringing about the meaning of it all after 18 months of a sort of fashion fast. Back to the Office, a Protest and a Time Traveler’s Ball 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

She is really the soul of this surreal and dangerous administration. Kimmel, Covfefe, ‘Wonder Woman’: Washington’s Views on Pop Culture in 2017 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

Slowly, fragments coalesced into a glittering, surreal, even dangerous exploration of the Viennese waltz. Review: Montreal Symphony Orchestra Performs With Panache 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

But these otherworldly adventures, painted with a deft sense of the surreal, are in the surest hands with Gaiman. Best graphic novels of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

“It was a little surreal to end up in exactly the same hospital where Charity and Kathleen were born,” said Vaneice Lincoln, 52, about the University of Washington Medical Center. She was conjoined to her twin for the first 7 months of life. Now an adult, she just had her own baby. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

“Being in that moment was completely surreal,” said Harris, a senior at Davidson College in North Carolina. A college student’s project helped free his childhood friend from prison 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

As surreal as the Black experience in movies has been, it feels even more surreal that I got to make this thing about it. For Elvis Mitchell, Critic Turned Filmmaker, a Chance to Show and Tell 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

Aira unfurls a chain of surreal, often hilariously absurd vignettes in this slim and dreamlike novel, beginning with a chance encounter at a restaurant in Buenos Aires. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

I would avoid the really surreal or morbid stuff. ArtsBeat: Retrospective on Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams Coming to Museum of the Moving Image 2012-04-04T14:21:42Z

The show lurches to a Titanic-style ending, but with a wickedly surreal touch at the end. Take a bite out of local bounty with Caf? Nordo's seafood-themed adventure 2010-05-25T21:39:00Z

Or was the entire city its own surreal sanctuary? Finding Yourself in Los Angeles 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

His work addresses ageing and masculinity in an often surreal way while dramatically subverting the traditional idea of self-portraiture by literally turning his back on the camera. The 10 best … photographic self-portraits 2013-03-23T16:00:00Z

To this surreal, almost post-apocalyptic scene, a remarkably sober addition has recently arrived. How social housing in Manchester has reinvented the back-to-back 2012-12-18T15:39:19Z

Very surreal, on the other hand, are two occupational portraits of figures from Maximilian’s court. Art Review: Several Obsessions, United on the Canvas 2010-09-23T21:44:00Z

And soon after the topic turns to the question of when each character felt he or she had “grown up,” the play switches into surreal fantasy. Humana Festival, Turning 40, Looks at Mortality, Dystopia and Change 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

“My brain is just trying to still process it. I think it’ll be really surreal and I think it will be pretty nerve-wracking.” The Carpetbagger: Pharrell’s Hat and Karen O’s Brain Tricks 2014-02-14T19:00:05Z

The sumptuously erotic black-and-white Herb Ritts ads created a nostalgia for an easy Utopian future, full of startlingly intimate moments — snapshots of seaside romps with surreally beautiful lovers in various stages of undress. Critical Shopper | Calvin Klein: Critical Shopper: What Comes Between Brooke and Her Calvin Kleins? China. 2010-03-24T17:28:00Z

For Anna, it also was what she calls a “surreal experience.” Snowzilla delayed this couple’s wedding, but not their marriage 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Ms. Harry herself was brought in to add an element of punk, or, anyhow, to intensify an atmosphere already veering toward the surreal. Marina Abramovic?s Crossover Moment 2011-11-18T23:58:05Z

The connections — direct or distantly, fuzzily, sometimes almost surreally indirect — led to germinations of Pop that are only now starting to be explored. New Exhibitions Explore Pop Art’s Foreign Agitators 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

From its source near the Navacerrada pass, the water has smoothed and sculpted the rocks into surreal shapes. Different strokes: wild swimming in Spain 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

The tweets are mostly either faux-motivational gobbets or surreal and rambling narratives unfolding over several tweets. Drip-fed up: why don't theatres get Twitter? 2011-02-08T15:43:00Z

In the couple’s ceremony, which both described as “surreal,” four shaman men played sacred ceremonial instruments, including a conch, and a shaman priest chanted blessings in Mayan. A Destination Wedding With Cultural Significance 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

This is a vision of office life gone very surreal, with warring tribes who develop their own language and mice who learn to speak English. Newly Published, from a Haitian Earthquake to MacArthur Park 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

“The pilot didn’t really give a hint of the oddball, surreal nature of the show we wanted to do,” Mr. Resnick said in a phone interview. ‘Get a Life,’ Now on DVD, With Chris Elliott 2012-10-21T03:17:16Z

Those forces – and here's where Neds gets surreal – include the heavenly variety. Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot 2011-01-19T21:31:00Z

“Infiltration” is the busiest and most surreal episode of this season so far, but it also sets up some promising disasters. ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 5: Somebody Do Something 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

A double bill of the surreal, brutal and stylish Japanese films that put the punk into cyberpunk. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-10-05T23:04:03Z

“Were you in Milan, when everything turned dark and surreal?” Perspective | Paris Fashion Week begins with coronavirus anxiety — plus latex, feminism and flashing neon lights 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Dory Previn's Left Hand Lost is a wonderful, surreal, irreverent and ultimately angry account of just how far-reaching that prejudice can be. Readers recommend: songs about hands – results 2013-01-03T15:38:47Z

Minutes into “Da 5 Bloods,” the movie’s logo makes a surreal appearance in an “Apocalypse Now”-themed nightclub in current-day Ho Chi Minh City. A Pop-Culture Glossary for ‘Da 5 Bloods’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

Romantic, surreally sylvan themes emerged persuasively in Milan, that most commerce-minded of Italian cities, spawning, of all things, a profusion of fairy-tale fashion. Trendspotting: Trends From the Fall 2014 Fashion Shows 2014-03-07T20:20:33Z

"It was a surreal time to be making this because of the campaign going on," Pullman said. White House TV comedy aims for laughs, not politics 2012-12-15T01:46:28Z

But he kept searching her photographs for the river of his dreams, a river of surreal blue which enveloped all that had disappeared on land. Woman Fish by Dorothy Tse, translated by Nicky Harman 2013-03-21T13:24:10Z

The longest of the three scenes — the surreal and moving center, in which Man does not appear — is Volume 1. ‘In the Southern Breeze’ Review: A Dark Night of the Soul 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

“Just to be in the stadium was incredible, and it was surreal,” Doechii said on a recent call from her Los Angeles home. Doechii Stays Balanced With 24-Hour Spas and a Good Girls Night 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z

It’s surreal to be at a party like this. Michelle Yeoh makes quite an entrance at the Vanity Fair Oscars party 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

The fast-moving, surreal, behind-the-beat verbal wit that is Ms. May’s specialty may be easier to appreciate at a time when her influence, acknowledged and implicit, permeates so much television and Web-based comedy. Cross-Cuts: Reconsidering Box Office Bombs Years After the Fact 2013-08-23T12:44:45Z

Mr. Harbutt experimented with surreal composition and juxtaposition of quotidian forms in a style he described as personal documentary and facetiously branded “superbanalisms.” Charles Harbutt, Photojournalist With an Eye for Art as Well as News, Dies at 79 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

He knows when to change from surreal to clear, simpler writing. Four new poetry collections 2012-08-29T19:22:04Z

Occasionally, the language slides into a fluid impressionism that summons the surreal nature of Politkovskaya’s world. Review: A Slain Journalist’s Voice Resounds in ‘Intractable Woman’ 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

The Last Czars is a surreal Wikipedia entry brought to life, mixing voiceover, a narrator figure, dramatic reconstructions and talking heads from academics who are experts in the period. The Last Czars: the historical drama that the whole of Russia is laughing at 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Davis’s paintings were mostly figurative works depicting blacks in surreal landscapes, sometimes with their features distorted or smeared in a manner reminiscent of Francis Bacon. Noah Davis, California Figurative Artist and Founder of the Underground Museum, Dies at 32 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

This is fandom at its most creative and cruel, with a sense of the surreal that you used to only get on The Mighty Boosh. Fan fiction allows teenagers to explore their sexuality freely 2012-10-07T19:00:13Z

In the style that so often attends mime and circus, everything is quaint, inconsequential, both surreal and cute. Theater Review: ‘Murmurs’ Brings Slapstick to the Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-26T20:44:14Z

But despite — or, perhaps, because of — its García Márquez-ish surreal touches, what is most surprising about the 10-episode first season of “Mozart” is how true its depiction of the classical music industry rings. ‘Mozart in the Jungle,’ an Amazon Series 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

And while he’s rarely known for getting taken down, Johnson, 48, said in a recent video interview that the process of creating “Young Rock” was “so incredibly surreal” that it “knocked me on my butt.” Dwayne Johnson Finds Room to Grow in ‘Young Rock’ 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

In his best-selling book “No Place to Hide,” Greenwald recalls thinking to himself that the Snowden story was “a surreal international thriller.” Playing Edward Snowden 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

Recorded samples of laughter and spoken words intersected surreally with flute fragments in “Lipstick,” an imaginative work by the Dutch composer Jacob TV. Music Review: Alejandro Escuer at the Americas Society 2012-11-22T21:08:22Z

If it lacks the focus and the specificity of his acclaimed “Factory Complex,” this new installation nevertheless succeeds in evoking the traumas of life after war, through images both real and surreal. Im Heung-soon Explores the Horrors Women Endure in War 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Armisen and Brownstein are fans of awkward comedy such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, which explains a lot, but they balance the discomfort with a surreal eye. Portlandia: box set review 2013-06-27T14:00:01Z

“It’s surreal to me that the first lady of the City of New York helped us plan our travel,” said Ms. Cumbo, who left the museum this year to run successfully for City Council. A New Mayor Brings Hope for a Populist Arts Revival 2013-12-29T19:52:34Z

On one level, this oddball cast of characters simply represents the joys of the picaresque novel, in which the author’s set design is intentionally surreal and ironic. Review | ‘The Old Drift’ is a brilliant literary response to generations of bad politics 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

“Schiap,” as she was known, was a heroine of surreal style in the 1930s, when she worked closely with the artists of her era. Dream Dialogue Between Schiaparelli and Prada 2012-05-07T11:30:28Z

It was a surreal and incredibly personal experience to see her bar brought to life. Where Did All the Lesbian Bars Go? Increasingly, They’re on TV 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

The most surreal ingredient is a man lying on his back with a large tube in his mouth. Dance Review: William Forsythe?s ?I don?t believe in outer space? - Review 2011-10-27T22:16:44Z

There is also a dried-up well in Oyamada’s brief tale, a follow-up to her similarly enigmatic debut, “The Factory,” but it’s only one of the many holes in this surreal and mesmerizing book. She Tumbled Into a Hole, and Her World Broke Open 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

I guess, when you’re actually in character playing the role and you die, I can’t say that there’s a huge surreal feeling of like, ‘Oh, I’m being killed.’ “Death is how I make my living”: David Ury has died onscreen in almost every role he’s played 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

What’s more, Disney is in the somewhat surreal situation of not being able to play with its new toys in its own pen. What would Walt do? Universal and Disney battle to be US's best theme park 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Writing that sentence feels surreal, and not just because I've wanted to write for television since I began my professional career eight years ago. How I started writing for TV: The case against "fake it til you make it" 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

The surreal, yellow post-storm sky over the Kennedy Center on Tuesday night, glimpsed at intermission, felt like an extension of the ballet atmosphere in the Eisenhower Theater. Polish National Ballet’s uplifting humanity 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

And the somewhat surreal image of a man riding a panther? Weird and wonderful Michelangelo bronzes stun the art world 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Additionally, "I Think You Should Leave" pushes boundaries for its unwillingness to release "the awkward tension of any jokes; instead, they get escalated until they veer into the surreal," writes Amanda Wicks for The Atlantic. How I made my peace with "I Think You Should Leave" – a cringe comedy I was one reluctant to watch 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z

“One of the most delightful things about ‘To Rome With Love’ is how casually it blends the plausible and the surreal,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Thursday 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

“Looking back, it was quite surreal,” Levine said in an interview in February. Artists discuss how they turned the queen into an icon. 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Boyz II Men was a group we idolized as we were coming up and trying to get discovered, so now, to be able to share the stage with them, it’s a surreal honor. Nick Lachey on Playing a Comeback Tour (and Sometimes Forgetting His Own Lyrics) 2013-07-10T18:27:00Z

Carvey wanted to move past conventional comedy to edgier, more surreal stuff, even though, as Colbert tells the audience, "all people wanted to see was Dana Carvey doing an impression of Bill Clinton!" Too Funny to Fail: TV That Was Too Funny for Its Time 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

On Friday night Mr. Decker’s sleekly modern, surreal production of Verdi’s “Traviata” will return after its smash premiere last season. Critic?s Notebook: Peter Gelb on Wagner?s ?Ring? Cycle at Met Opera 2012-04-03T18:45:55Z

To buy time for repairs, Mr. Franch-Ballester and Ms. Chien played a suitably surreal, wacky interlude, the third movement of Poulenc’s Clarinet Sonata. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Central Park 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

These few minutes provide all the sex, violence and surreal trashiness to justify Mr. Bieito’s reputation for being controversial and provocative. Calixto Bieito Directs Williams?s ?Camino Real? in Chicago 2012-03-02T18:30:03Z

“It’s really surreal,” Gun, 41, who was born in Taiwan and studied Mandarin and Japanese at Durham University, said last week. Hollywood calls for the whistleblower who risked jail over Iraq ‘dirty tricks’ 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

Fifty years ago, colorful, mustachioed cartoon versions of the Beatles traipsed across the surreal world of Pepperland to defeat the Blue Meanies in the film “Yellow Submarine.” ‘Yellow Submarine’ to Arrive in Theaters for Its 50th Anniversary 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

With her New Mexico paintings, she helped introduce the region’s surreal landscapes to the world. A pilgrimage to the stark desert landscape that inspired painter Georgia O’Keeffe 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

It had a power — to witness this strange surreal part of America’s strange history. Short docs, big Oscar hopes: "A Night at the Garden," "My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes" and "Los Comandos" 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Morris’s work is more pointedly surreal. Review: Mark Morris Dance Performs ‘Whelm’ and ‘Words’ at BAM 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

“Peanut,” off 1969’s “Black Woman,” weaves a surreal patchwork of sounds that offers a transcendent musical experience. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

In this surreal spot, two well-known cartoon characters talk to kids about inappropriate touches while Orko air boxes the imaginary bad person away. 10 memorable PSAs that attempted to save Generation X 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

"And here we were looking at this dead body. It was so surreal." Art born of the drug wars: Camilo Restrepo on 'narco bananas' and pen-on-paper violence 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

More than a dozen of Kahlo’s botanically focused artworks are on display there: still lifes with fruit and parrots, self-portraits framed by fuchsias and zinnias, surreal depictions of engorged vegetation and magical mandrakes. Artists works show how their gardens grow: The seeds of creativity 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

“Fairview” concerns a “regular” middle-class black family seen in increasingly surreal ways. ‘Fairview’: Watching a Play in Black and White 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cattelan, known for often surreal, multimedia work — at his retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2011, he suspended all his pieces from the rotunda — is not part of the deal, Ms. Axelrod said. Joshua Roth Takes United Talent Agency Into the Art World 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

While Orr's work reaches back to old masters, his postmodern approach, assembling different epochs into surreal collages, draws upon his apprenticeship at a printer's, where he laid out graphics by hand. Artist of the week: Christopher Orr 2010-05-19T11:15:00Z

As much as he highlights divisions, van Agtmael also catches the surreal ways in which disparate Americas get stitched together: one nation, indivisible. Peter van Agtmael’s Decoding of American Violence 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Prentice brings an earthy, grounded presence to the film, balancing Maria's point of view, which is dreamy, dark and surreal, toeing the line between hallucination and reality. '11th Hour' could use more time to reach its conclusion 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

In those liminal moments, alternately lucid and surreal, Leila recalls her life, from her birth all the way to the tragic step that left her body in a dumpster. Review | Elif Shafak continues to resist Turkey’s repressive government with brilliant fiction 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

“I’ve been in show business a long time, but this was surreal,” he answered. Tracy Morgan Is a Survivor. And ‘a Better Man Now.’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Savannah Stehlin, presumably following Mr. Ghuman’s directions, plays Spork as a largely silent observer, her limpid gray eyes taking in the lightly surreal satire spinning out around her. | 'Spork': Life on the Fringe 2011-05-26T23:49:14Z

Several contributors to the anthology ratify Christo’s observation that there is something slightly surreal about the park. Books of The Times: ‘Central Park: An Anthology,’ Edited by Andrew Blauner 2012-07-05T12:00:00Z

The most narrative of these, as well as the most surreal in its use of chance occurrences, “The Punishment” plays like a distant ancestor of Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise.” Jean Rouch: A Long-Overdue Homage to a Documentary Maker 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

I imagine "Icaria sky" as vivid blue, and the "black pearl" of the girl's tear expanding surreally to bring night and perhaps death. Poem of the week: 'Time has disappeared/Lo temps s'es perdut' by Aurélia Lassaque 2013-02-11T11:28:12Z

After he published his surreal epic, “The Underground Railroad,” in the summer of 2016, Colson Whitehead was set to write a crime novel set in Harlem. Colson Whitehead’s Next Novel Tackles Life Under Jim Crow 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

“It’s unbelievable, where we are today. It’s almost surreal,” Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy says in a voiceover during an opening credits sequence featuring a black and white photo montage, rendering all in shades of gray. “The Circus” goes to Kavanaugh: Women’s pain collides with the sport of politics 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

His approach is surreal, which also hampers things a bit. The Tales of Hoffmann ? review 2012-02-12T17:49:40Z

But most of the unusual elements are more surreal than political. Review | In the galleries: Kathryn Polk’s images withhold as much as they reveal 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Seeing them as adults — “older and not hanging out in the high school library” — was “surreal,” said Dodai Stewart, deputy editor of the blog Jezebel. Molly Ringwald and the Grown-Up Life 2010-05-12T23:05:00Z

Employing stark, somewhat abstract sets and costumes that blend realistic and surreal touches, the production plumbs the teeming yet murky emotions of the opera. At Salzburg Festival, Two Bold Directors Claim Their Stages 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

Neither actor is fazed by the script’s more surreal elements, like the jellied pink patches that proliferate on Jeremy’s torso as he sells his body for medical testing. Review: ‘Hunter Gatherer’ Profiles Two Men Living on the Margins 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Before the show, several attendees remarked on how surreal the reunion felt, but once things got started, the only disrupters acknowledged from the stage were the usual coterie of producers, agents and streaming services. The Gotham Awards Find a Big Winner in ‘The Lost Daughter’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

“It was surreal when we walked in,” said Hammer, who towered over her. Ruth Bader Ginsburg guided "On the Basis of Sex," say Armie Hammer and Felicity Jones 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

It is like a 3D cartoon by Goya, ringing with the mad quality of the Spanish visionary's Caprices, his surreal send-ups of stupidity and superstition. How Yinka Shonibare's sculpture park exhibition shoots to thrill 2013-03-03T21:59:01Z

The one-time "American Idol" contestant, who went on to win an Academy Award three years ago for a supporting role in her feature debut "Dreamgirls," said the 2008 triple-slaying was "surreal." Actress Jennifer Hudson says family murders "surreal" 2010-06-30T04:00:00Z

“The Demon of Writing” takes in Marx, Freud, Tocqueville and Jim Henson — who in his pre-“Muppets” days made a surreal promotional video for an early IBM word processor called “The Paperwork Explosion.” Noting the History of the Paper Trail 2012-12-16T20:47:26Z

It must be surreal to end up where you started, but on Oct. Kathryn Posin’s Bulgarian Program 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

His wild and surreal adventures lead him to a semi-abandoned village near Beijing, where he takes up residence. Travel books for your Christmas wish list 2010-12-18T00:08:01Z

The story, which begins in the fall, takes him through a surreal Christmas and a grueling winter into spring and beyond. Movie Review: ‘Hide Away,’ Directed by Chris Eyre 2012-05-31T21:23:01Z

When David Letterman began entertaining night owls after Johnny Carson, it was a change of tone and style, a shift in what late-night was, from calming, genial humor to surreal, unbalancing comic experimentation. Your New, Very Slightly Different Host of Late Night, Seth Meyers 2013-05-12T19:07:15Z

“Katy Perry was about to rehearse in another warehouse. It was all quite surreal.” Building David Byrne’s ‘Utopia,’ One Gray Suit at a Time 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

“It’s very nice and surreal and overwhelming in all the best ways,” she said of the attention. Carpetbagger Blog: From 'Pariah,' an Ingenue in Her First 'Fancy-Fancy' Dress 2011-12-02T17:39:47Z

It encourages descriptions of surreal coping, such as one in which Margot fingers the dashboard: “That was Mozart, she said. Did you like it?” A Florida Trailer Park Awash in Lethal Weapons 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

There are lunches, homework, chores — the usual — against the new backdrop of the surreal: soon I’ll be dead. Motherlode Blog: The Last Mother's Day 2012-05-11T14:08:27Z

And while “Is This a Room” is on its face a re-enactment, there are elements of the transcript that pitch it into the surreal, and allow for interpretive space. Staging Reality Winner: An F.B.I. Transcript Becomes an Offbeat Thriller 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

What followed were the most surreal months of my life. Modern Love: In a Divorce, the Clicks of a Mouse - Modern Love 2011-11-04T18:48:01Z

They pitch us back into her cerebral yet vaguely surreal and magical intellectual world. Review: ‘Living on Paper,’ Seven Decades of Letters From Iris Murdoch 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

As is often the case in Murakami’s fiction, a plot of relative simplicity — an artist’s reinvention — is disrupted by enigmatic, surreal or violent incidents. Review | Haruki Murakami turns his gaze toward middle age 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

There are several other surreal touches, just infrequent enough to be confusing. L.A. revival of 'A Taste of Honey,' the 1958 play that dared to make a gay character its moral center 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

It was surreal to be riding a chairlift in the bracing air a little more than 12 hours after leaving Paris. A Father-Son Bonding Mission in the French Alps 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

That is surreal – motherhood remodelled to suit the marketplace. The agony and ecstasy of becoming an older mother 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

The comic bits seemed almost surreal, like the scene when the preening courtiers break into a vaudeville dance, complete with kicks and caps. Review: James Levine Conducts a Noirish Verdi at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

The scene is surreal — 40 or 50 people simultaneously sketching comics that event organizer Max Clotfelter, one of Seattle’s most talented younger cartoonists, collects in an Apples to Apples board-game box. Alt comics artists take us to our rough edges 2014-03-12T22:48:22Z

Racism is an inescapable shadow, but we’re left to make our own connections among scenes that are variously triumphal, mysterious, everyday, surreal and ironic. Garrett Bradley Reminds Us That Black Joy Always Existed 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

At his house on one of the mountain slopes above the city, he has dedicated himself to an almost surreal level of interesting comfort, which can’t be faked or easily copied. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z

Many of these artists' works are boiled down to surreally matter-of-fact, step-by-step recipes. Manchester International Festival 2013 2013-05-24T15:40:01Z

Stay at one of 104 waterfront camping spaces to spy the island’s celebrated residents and savor its surreal seaside sunrises. These Are America's Prettiest Beach Campsites 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

When Bausch’s ambitious dance-theater productions captivate, they turn viewers into witnesses, too, watching choreography and behavior mingle in surreal, sometimes forceful or humorous ways. Review: A Pina Bausch Trip to Brazil Overstays Its Welcome 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

“It was all very surreal,” says Mike Lindell, the pillow guy, of his moment in the Rose Garden. It’s 5 o’clock. Do you know where your president is? 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

The design duo will show their “Monsieur” collection for the first time in Paris, but they bowed in front of the Florentine windows to surreal effect. 2010-01-16T06:40:00Z

In his intense and surreal opera, Mr. Adès explores the terrifying undercurrents of Buñuel’s macabre comedy. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Barker's at his best when working through his surreal gripes with seemingly irrelevant elements of everyday living, issuing his audience with calls-to-arms against such things as department stores, analogue watches and the Discovery Channel. This week's new comedy 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

But Alyokhina’s eye for surreal detail gives “Riot Days” a welcome dose of dark humor. ‘Riot Days’: A Memoir of Punk Protest and Prison Activism 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

At least there's nothing quite so bizarre as a polar bear in Mad Dogs, although the man in the Tony Blair mask was pretty surreal. Is Mad Dogs barking up the right tree? 2011-02-17T12:56:10Z

Despite the book’s surreal pitch, it’s capable of eliciting real feeling. Review | Yu Miri’s ‘Tokyo Ueno Station’ focuses its attention on the shamefully overlooked 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

“Red Army” takes a poignant, slightly surreal turn, with cheesy American and Canadian television clips stepping in for old Russian newsreels and Western show business vulgarity sweeping aside the pomp and bluster of official Communism. ‘Red Army,’ the Rise and Fall of a Soviet Hockey Dynasty 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Graffiti and the occasional wrecked car line the banks, all of it combining to create a surreal tableau of urban and pastoral. Let’s swim to work! 2012-09-15T13:30:00Z

The death was overshadowed by an incredibly surreal opening couch gag directed by Oscar nominee Don Hertzfeldt and the "Simpsons"-"Family Guy" crossover episode that aired immediately after. 'Simpsons' character's death, heavily publicized, leaves fans unmoved 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

“It was surreal,” Ms. Lublin said about seeing the bill signed into law in Nevada. After Bill Cosby, States Shift on Statutes of Limitations in Sexual Assault Cases 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

That’s one of the tricky parts of Ibsen’s text — the long list of characters, the insistent verse, the constant setting shifts, the frequent and abrupt dips into the absurd and surreal. Review: ‘Gnit’ Seeks Itself in a Mist of Magic and Mischief 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

Here's a sensational clip from Bedknobs and Broomsticks in which Disney turned its attentions to football with surreal, hilarious results. Clip joint: football 2012-07-04T12:07:00Z

Episode of the year: Steve’s Restaurant Showdown, which features a surreal Scottish folk tale from Mortimer that rivals anything he’s managed as part of Reeves and Mortimer. The 50 best podcasts of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Still, like other brides who traveled with their partners to Gibraltar alone, Ms. Durocher found aspects of the process surreal and lonely. How Gibraltar Became Europe’s Pandemic Wedding Hot Spot 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

Through a secret elevator in the confessional, she descends into a surreal warren of basement workrooms, strewn with the slumped bodies of androids or humans, or both. “Westworld,” Episode 9: Brother, Can You Spare a Time Line? 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

Even the facts of her life sound slightly surreal. Review | In Nell Zink’s ‘Doxology,’ D.C. punk and modern politics collide 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

Alma Har’el’s surreal “Bombay Beach” examines a crumbling bohemian community on the edge of the Salton Sea, the lake created in the California desert by the flooded Colorado River. Critic?s Notebook: Tribeca Turns 10: Films on Rebels, Rock and Real Life 2011-04-14T12:00:00Z

Mr. Fountain found inspiration for this debut novel in a surreal spectacle he witnessed on television. Janet Maslin’s 10 Favorite Books of 2012 2012-12-17T16:09:46Z

It’s a feverish, funny, scary, angry, surreal satire about a black man finding out that his “white voice” can unlock a whole new world of opportunity. No cape required: your guide to the best alternative films this summer 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Comic and surreal, this is too little known. David Thomson on Jerzy Skolimowski 2011-03-24T22:17:00Z

This is a world of surreal blues and impossible greens, a color swirl of action and movement. You Won't Actually Be Done With 2016 Until You Watch The Shallows 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

She paints a surreal picture of life on set. The great St Trinian's school reunion 2011-04-07T22:00:00Z

Some readers will be put in mind of Norman Mailer’s epic “The Executioner’s Song,” about the surreal events surrounding the execution of the convicted killer Gary Gilmore in Utah in the 1970s. ‘Memorial Drive’ Powerfully Recalls a Southern Childhood and a Mother’s Murder 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

It seems surreal now but Milt Ahlerich, the FBI’s assistant director, actually found time in his schedule to write the band a stern letter expressing the bureau’s deep concern about their activities. How NWA came straight outta Compton and went mainstream 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

Particularly after the surreal section in Berlin and his gruesome ordeal in the hospital, Bruno’s convalescence in Berkeley, Calif., grows tedious. ‘A Gambler’s Anatomy’: Meet the James Bond of backgammon 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

The results are highly accomplished and surreal films that owe a debt to Beatrix Potter and Lewis Carroll as well as animators such as Jan Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay. Len Shelley obituary 2010-11-21T18:55:00Z

That's all very well, but the funny and surreal Skins could do with showing up this series, sooner rather than later. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-02-17T08:00:02Z

It was also surreal to emerge from the courtroom into the bright sun of an idyllic Pacific Northwest summer. How an adopted girl's tragic death became fiction: David Guterson on "bearing witness" 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

"Orange Is the New Black" star Laverne Cox, who made history as the first openly transgender Emmy acting nominee, said being at the awards was nothing short of surreal. Emmys 2014: Sarah Silverman's 'Masters of Sex' appeal and other moments 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

It’s surreal and it also brings a certain sense of guilt. Carmen, the Wonder Woman of opera? A soprano on playing the poster girl for freedom 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

But another flouter of film industry norms, the surreal, independently financed space adventure “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” was dead on arrival. ‘Dunkirk’ Exceeds Box Office Expectations as ‘Valerian’ Bombs 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

It was all a little surreal for Ives, who maintains a down-to-earth modesty even though he's kind of a big thing, too. Playwright David Ives finds his timing perfectly 2013-02-08T16:46:04Z

Ritter kneels to play imaginary trumpet and embarks on surreally funny monologues about dogs. Josh Ritter 2010-09-23T21:30:00Z

A surreal period drama inspired by real events, Udo Flohr’s “Effigy — Poison and the City” dramatizes the multiple deaths surrounding a beautiful widow in 1820s Bremen, Germany. ‘Effigy — Poison and the City’ Review: Death and the Matron 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Not that Hen feels deprived; she loves her work creating “grotesque, surreal tableaus” to illustrate children’s books. Going Rogue With Marilyn Stasio 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

The veil is raised at the corners to disclose a glass-walled lobby, where biomorphic dark-grey surfaces rise and spread overhead like a surreal forest canopy. Open doors 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

But what we can ascertain, with some clarity, is that celebrity response to controversy has taken on a surreal and defiant new form. Michelle Rodriguez quits apologising and goes for full-frontal defiance 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

It’s part of what sets her work, collagelike and surreal, apart. Dream Logic Mixed With ‘a Catalog of My Interests Back in 1996’ 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Even when she donned a blonde wig to play the high school cheerleader, it was for Tim Burton’s surreal Edward Scissorhands. 90s Icon Winona Ryder Is Making Her Comeback 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

I think Jubilee was really a piece of film, a surreal kind of journey that just happened to land slap bang into the middle of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Adam Ant 'royalist stigma' gone 2012-05-30T13:58:19Z

It is almost surreal to think about eating in Los Angeles without Jonathan Gold. When nobody else could, Jonathan Gold helped me understand & then love LA, one restaurant at a time 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

Photographers have long used composites or odd vantage points to create surreal visions. Photographing Life as It’s Seen, Not Staged 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

On top of the churn, Shorter plays a mix of simple and surreal. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

The somewhat surreal exhibit reminds us of the artist’s gift for highly detailed but ambiguous storytelling. 2010-02-03T15:50:00Z

Despite New Fame, Still Struck by Stars THE bloggers behind TomandLorenzo.com have been to countless fashion shows, but one stands out as surreal. | Up Close: New York Fashion Week: Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez, Fashion Bloggers 2012-09-05T21:37:53Z

I think this is pretty accurate; a stream of a thousand different voices, people and surreal concepts, all arguing in his head. Robin Williams appreciation by Nigel Planer: 'He wouldn't be happy until the furniture was laughing' 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

Back in in August, a seventh-grade Missouri boy’s school photos went viral for the same reason — but his shots were a bit more surreal. Pennsylvania girl’s green screen school photos go viral 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

But the imagery is not that involving, especially in comparison with the boldly surreal, excitingly provocative Willy Decker staging it’s replacing. Review: ‘La Traviata’ Opens a New Era at the Met Opera 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Despite such surreal, even comical moments, “Rosewater” is neither farce nor satire. Jon Stewart, now a feature film director with ‘Rosewater,’ contemplates what’s next

Still, the director Mariusz Trelinski, working closely with an inventive video production designer, has fashioned a dark, almost surreal staging that draws out the grimness in both works. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 13-19 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

It quickly becomes clear that a chat with Coen will veer into the surreal, just as many of his films do. Playwright Ethan Coen Fears He’s Selling Out 2013-09-13T23:32:26Z

Her works play off poor grammar and lack of context for maximum comedic effect, turning everyday updates into surreal, vibrant scenes. Celebrity Tweets, In Full Color 2010-03-08T18:15:00Z

On Bush: "In his gift for surreal improvisation he resembles an unintentional Paul Merton, a linguistic dada-ist, armed with nuclear weapons and a worrying sense that God is on his side." The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson, introduced and edited by Harry Mount – review 2013-05-22T13:00:01Z

The surreal, alienating aspects of virtual communication are even more difficult for neurodivergent people, who may need more time and space for processing, said Héctor Ramírez, a disability activist with autism and a psychiatric disability. When the World Shut Down, They Saw It Open 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

“You were being catapulted from one surreal experience to the next.” Academy Awards 25 Years Ago: Not So Different From Today 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

“It’s been a surreal six months,” Mr. Chen, 29, said in a telephone interview from Singapore. The Carpetbagger: From Singapore, a First-Time Filmmaker and an Unlikely Reunion 2013-12-19T14:00:23Z

The harsh, surreal environment can do funny things to the chirpiest person’s moods, and the best thing to do is to accept it. The crazy world of Burning Man – festival survival guide 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a lot about how far I could push things in a strange, surreal direction. After Two Hit Operas, a Composer Takes on the Bleak Prairie 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Kelly said it is surreal to think her name and story are now part of the museum. The debris of Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol now belongs to history 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

In it, Ms. Churchill throws the greatest and most surreal dinner party of all time. Prepare to Be Provoked. Caryl Churchill Is Back. 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

It was around the time when Jill Stein acknowledged the existence of the “Jill Stein Dank Meme Stash” that this surreal election tipped into a new dimension of weirdness for me. The Dank Memes That Are “Disrupting” Politics 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Mixing 1950s Disney and “The Triplets of Belleville,” the stylized design and moody color palette are a welcome departure from current animation trends, and they add to the general ambience of surreal eccentricity. Netflix’s 2019 Holiday Movies, Reviewed and Ranked 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Sorry to Bother You then uses Cassius’s surreal code-switching to illustrate the tragedy of assimilation, but the reality of the linguistic act is far more complex. Sorry to Bother You shows why black Americans code-switch to survive 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

Of course they meant well by it, but it just seemed too surreal to me. The tsunami survivor who lost her whole family 2013-03-09T23:00:01Z

In her book “Lorna Simpson Collages,” from last year, she embellishes vintage photos of models, giving them hairdos made of nightshade-colored plumes and nuggets of pyrrhotite, linking the stylized to the fecund and the surreal. The Mysterious Darknesses of Lorna Simpson’s Paintings 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

“Tabu,” which manages to be dryly absurd and deeply romantic, begins with a surreal vignette about a widowed hunter who throws himself to the crocodiles, and perhaps comes back as one. Film: At Berlinale, Something for Everyone 2012-02-17T17:13:20Z

Stealing Fame Perhaps, by way of illustrating the deeply surreal, snake-eating-its-own-tail nature of Sofia Coppola’s new film, “The Bling Ring,” it’s best to start with a simple exchange between reporter and director. Sofia Coppola’s ‘Bling Ring’ Delves Into Celebrity Obsession 2013-06-05T12:00:01Z

And imagine this mundane/surreal epic spanning the first decade of the 21st century. In 'El pasado,' the stage spins, and so do the characters' lives 2012-02-11T20:42:03Z

I like to see as many surreal and inventive shows as I can. Read Your Way Through Edinburgh 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

So is the song that closes the album, “Marching Into the Dark,” which moves from guitar-plunking gospel roots into surreal modern production and ponders individual sacrifice and the course of history. John Legend: Love Songs That Bow to Dark Shadows 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

The only words she could find to convey the feeling were “surreal” and “insane.” 2 Networks Pin Their Hopes on One Comedian 2011-05-20T23:25:40Z

The surreal “Samsa in Love,” Murakami’s humorous twist on Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” also involves an unlikely emotional connection set against a dark background. ‘Men Without Women,’ a new story collection by Haruki Murakami 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

Things took a surreal turn when they reportedly ran out of money for drugs and alcohol, and the well-heeled man contacted family in Italy, according to news accounts, in order to arrange a cash drop. Lapo Elkann, Fiat Heir, Goes From Playboy to Bad Boy Again 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z

Skewing strongly toward American and British animators — and with death and decline as persistent motifs — the collection embraces ideas both silly and surreal, poignant and perverse. Sundance Film Festival Animated Shorts 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

As for Fowler, her surreal, harrowing experiences at Uber only intensified. Review | ‘Whistleblower’ and ‘Uncanny Valley’ offer a chilling look at life in Silicon Valley 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Two of his most strikingly surreal images were of women’s feet. Hiro, Fashion Photographer Who Captured the Surreal, Dies at 90 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

The tone is surreal, the viciousness bracing, and Álvaro’s undiluted anguish the kind that never goes away. Review: In ‘Recent Alien Abductions,’ Anguish Is a Driving Force 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

And with a disbelieving, self-deprecating laugh, she heads off to another surreal TV appearance. Laura Mvula: meet the world's least likely pop star 2013-05-04T08:00:00Z

It's funny because it's surreal — how you're supposed to think upon Jesus, look at the cross and save yourself from these impure thoughts. Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Some of this footage is spliced into the episode, prompting the viewer to imagine for a moment what surreal, incredible thing the show could be if West truly got his hands on it. Kanye West’s Reality-TV Reckoning 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

It felt a bit surreal, but at the same time uniquely L.A. Finding books in the least expected places around L.A. 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

“My deepest appreciation to the legendary Spike Lee - we stand on your shoulders ... this is a surreal moment. Wow. Thank you.” Factbox: With pride, shock, honor, stars react to Golden Globe... 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Nicknamed the “Horizontal Skyscraper,” the Vanke Center is a surreal hybrid — part building, part landscape, part infrastructure. Architecture Review: Turning Design on Its Side 2011-06-27T22:10:08Z

“But when you get inside, you face this huge palace. It was surreal. I have never seen architecture like that before in Colombia.” Painting Colombia red, blue and green 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Their off-kilter humor and surreal wordplay bounce from the brainy to the outrageous as they topple bling and booty clichés. Top albums of 2011 2011-12-02T23:08:00Z

There is little of the surreal, double-translated tone that defined spam for so many years. Is Spam Trying to Tell Us Something? 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

The song plays on a loop, creating a surreal scene as children silently queue up to pay their respects to a living, breathing rap star. Six months on the trail with Shy Glizzy, Washington’s latest budding rap star 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

What, after all, were a bunch of naïve teenagers doing in this surreal, existential tragicomedy by the author of “Our Town,” with its mash-up of biblical revisionism, theatrical satire and apocalyptic escapades? Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Now, as a steady stream of Mercedes sedans pulled up to the valet, disgorging their fashion-forward passengers, South Korea’s return to business as usual seemed almost surreal. In Seoul, the Art World Gets Back to Business 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

Relics of primordial geological violence are everywhere: plunging rifts and canyons, volcanic calderas, ancient lava flow and a vast, surreal, white desert, almost lunar. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

The torchlight gives Heineman’s cinematic coup a surreal and highly effective drama. Director Matthew Heineman: ‘Suddenly I was alone with my camera in the middle of this shootout’ 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

For Teal, it bordered on the surreal when an unsolicited invitation to sing with Morrison arrived by email. Van Morrison on 'Re-Working the Catalogue' with an all-star lineup 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Or does the play exist in — to steal the name of another Pinter work — some kind of surreal no man’s land, a cyclical purgatory where the two men relive this same situation? Review: Serving Murder in ‘The Dumb Waiter’ 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z

After too many months ogling screens in my apartment, there was a surreal thrill to finally seeing people materialize before me as shipwrecked royals and island sprites. Fall Preview: The Thrill is Back. So Is the Anxiety. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

As her life has grown increasingly surreal, the journalist Maria Ressa has gained a newfound sympathy for the dazed girl in Wonderland. A Thousand Cuts: inside a chilling documentary on Maria Ressa 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Graffiti has turned these once-lethal hulks into surreal art installations, a colorful reminder of the island’s controversial past. A relatively undeveloped island off Puerto Rico mainland offers solitude (amid unexploded bombs) 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

And the prize for most surreal podcast of the year goes to … Neutral Milk Hotel’s Julian Koster and his oddball offering set in a variety show at the top of the Eiffel Tower. The 50 best podcasts of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Here, suspended between gnarled treetops, colored lanterns, vast ruins of the old sultanate below and the surreal Qutab Minar against the stars, I finally sensed the fantastical garden city celebrated in Latitude 28’s exhibition. On the Edge of Delhi, a Dynamic Cultural Scene Takes Shape 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

“Visions of a Makah” are the visions of Frank Peterson — vivid paintings and carved masks that combine abstraction and figuration in surreal portrayals of Native Northwest Coast figures, symbols and legends. 3 Seattle-area art exhibits to check out now, from the must-see to the weird and wonderful 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

This surreal modern-dress production plays the entire story within the confines of a tall, curved whitish wall that suggests an arena under clinically bright lights. Some Ground Rules for Revising Operas and Musicals 2012-03-11T05:41:51Z

There was an inner need to grab that reality, which looked so surreal. On Instagram, the Artist Ai Weiwei Focuses on Refugees 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

And now that it’s certain his shows will not be reprised, images summoned at random from past ones seem more surreal and more altogether marvelous. 2010-02-12T21:59:00Z

The VR film’s narrative involving a surreal confrontation with Border Patrol agents was inspired by the experiences of actual immigrants the filmmaker located through Casa Libre, a not-for-profit shelter in downtown Los Angeles. How a migrant woman's death influenced Alejandro Iñárritu's Oscar-winning VR project 'Carne y Arena' 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

In a surreal touch, two singers appear as sausages who deliver a duet of warning to Gloria. ‘Gloria — A Pig Tale’ Brings Opera to the Met Museum 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The current show, curated by German artist Thomas Demand, takes a surreal look at the "domesticated nature" in Monaco's gardens and parks. Five Reasons to Visit Monaco 2012-01-05T05:45:00Z

These surreal creations are also functional: The user speaks into a small hole in the palm of the hand, and the sound comes out amplified by a trumpet-like shape at the other end. What to see in L.A. galleries: An ode to a black sci-fi trailblazer and Lari Pittman 'Mood Books' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

There was the surreal comedy of the parking gag, with the just-ever-so-off street signs. Louie Watch: Dad of Anarchy 2012-06-29T11:22:17Z

“So we ended up with a surreal design that references luxury but is ultimately an anti-status status symbol.” T Magazine: Ceci N'est Pas un Birkin 2011-01-03T14:00:00Z

I can’t think of a more searingly surreal moment in my life! The night Bob Dylan abandoned me at a petrol station 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

He felt prepared for this surreal moment, he says, in a time of mounting grief. He became one of America’s most famous widowers — thanks to his wife. Now he’s trying to teach us about grief. 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

The Kardashians are often used as a shorthand for all that’s wrong with modern celebrity culture, invariably by people who never watched the often funny, always surreal show. Keeping Up With the Kardashians gave America its real first family 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

To make matters more surreal, on the sunbed directly next to us sits Gary Lineker, his presence challenging the band to work up the courage to ask for a photograph. Foals on Holy Fire: 'We were inspired by voodoo' 2013-04-25T17:11:02Z

Henderson, who was born in Dallas and spent part of his childhood here, said that working with Hagman has been a little surreal. 'Dallas' returns to city it made famous 2011-12-10T22:16:04Z

Photograph: Alamy It was a startling, surreal sight made all the more so by the military helicopter that suddenly appeared out of a giant cloud of dust and hovered menacingly above my parked car. Spain, swords and sorcery: how Tudela enchanted the Game of Thrones producers 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

This feeling is enhanced by the rocks, painted as if they were chiseled in color, which gives them a surreal relief. Art Review: John Martin's Greatness and High Kitsch 2011-09-30T11:30:09Z

These selections, by an acclaimed South Korean writer, are scatological, surreal and flat-out creepy. 8 Books Coming in December 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

"Micmacs" is a surreal comedy about a group of homeless who refashion junk into whimsical creations, and use their creativity to bring down a pair of weapons dealers. Al-Qaeda to Zonad: Highlights from Tribeca Fest 2010-05-02T21:16:00Z

"Six years ago," he said, and the call turned more surreal from there. "We were homeless in Marrakech": When budget travel with two kids goes sideways 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

The shimmering heat added a surreal element, particularly when a Venetian-style gondolier drifted slowly past the proceedings. Make Music New York: ‘Maritime Rites’ at Make Music New York 2012-06-23T00:23:02Z

And the lean lines, wood and chrome details and high polish of the Jaguar E-Type Roadster are too perfect, making it feel slightly surreal, like a toy that’s never been taken out of its wrapper. Review | Some cars are more seductive than art. Should they be included in art museums? 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

While rooted somewhere in the Rome and Tuscany he loves, they have grown increasingly surreal. A Top Architect Settles Into a New Niche 2011-01-30T02:30:04Z

That’s the most surreal part, to see myself dead on the gurney with celebrities looking over me. “Death is how I make my living”: David Ury has died onscreen in almost every role he’s played 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

There’s a surreal sequence where lots of sheep have been beheaded and they’re all dancing without their heads on this conveyor belt. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

Add surreal touches to an abstract setting, and the staging can feel contrived. Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

So do hip-hop drums and a willingness to tuck all sorts of things into the surreal background of a track: horns, vocal beatboxing, voice mail messages. The Internet Gives a Human Touch to Digital-Era R&B on ‘Hive Mind’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

All of the soundtrack choices ground the surreal nature of what we're seeing in granite truths, and audio overlays of recitations by the likes of James Baldwin and Gil Scott-Heron boldface the subtext. "Lovecraft Country" is an intoxicating, myth-shattering hero's journey through a map of Black fear 2020-08-16T04:00:00Z

This challenging work leads readers through a surreal landscape of hunger, rebellion, desire and addiction. Best poetry collections — to inspire, challenge and spark the imagination 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

At that point, there was a surreal and palpable sense that someone was missing, Yazbek said. Sarah Silverman’s Family Show (Really!) About Divorce and Depression 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

With Elsa Schiaparelli as his muse, the designer crafted a collection that mixed a surreal chevron-striped animal fur print with the real thing. Special Report: Fashion: Taking It Out West 2011-02-28T18:43:44Z

Along the way there’s a little violence, more than a little marital hostility, a flourish of swordplay, and a toddler whose cruelty is met with swift surreal punishment. My children are hooked on Faulkner! 2012-12-03T20:30:00Z

Finally seeing a theater materialize, flush against a rock face, was so surreal that I unexpectedly choked up. Friday Night Footlights: How Theater Bonds a Colorado Town 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere there are rhythmic foot stomping, snapping strings for bullets and, at the very end, a slow, surreal, unpleasant slide down to the final harmony, as if death itself were being enacted. Music Review: A Far Cry, in the Schneider Concerts at Tishman Auditorium 2013-01-17T22:50:08Z

It’s the setting — and the surreal blend of reality-show characters and button-down Washington — that gives this soap opera more of a kick. | 'The Real Housewives of Washington, D.C.': Capital Purring and Preying on Bravo 2010-08-04T17:09:00Z

His approach certainly was on display Sunday night, particularly in the surreal gathering of women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct, going back to the 1970s. When Trump went low, Steve Bannon found a new direction: Lower. 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Watching “What Did You Expect?” at the Public Theater, you’re always aware of what characters, caught in the middle of a presidential election that seems almost too surreal and too important for words, are thinking. Review: In ‘What Did You Expect?,’ a Potluck of Election-Year Anxiety 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

With every cut to a different camera, a surreal episode unfolds with a new menace. Review: In ‘The Road Movie,’ Russian Highways Are the Final Frontier 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

One of many Kuniyoshi quirks is his use of strangely surreal bowls, plates and tabletops to frame the otherwise meticulously rendered objects of still life. Yasuo Kuniyoshi retrospective a testament to artist’s vision 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

So it’s truly surreal, coming from my background, to be in this position. Probing the Mysteries of a Photographer and Her Images 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

A tire named Robert comes to life and begins a savage killing spree in the California desert in this surreal, stylized comedy by the director Quentin Dupieux. A Horror Genre Where Dresses (and Fridges) Can Kill 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Though the videos are wildly imaginative, a great deal of the action is simply staged on the extended platform, with the singers in surreal sci-fi costumes designed by Catherine Zuber. Music Review: The Philharmonic?s Challenge: Merely the End of the World 2010-05-28T18:13:00Z

It was also really surreal because it was Memorial Day weekend and the weather was so beautiful and there were so many parties. Perspective | A hypervigilant mom followed every health guideline. She still caught the coronavirus. 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z

The forms are whimsical, grotesque and thoroughly surreal, like indeterminate body parts crudely butchered and strung up like hams. What is the 'women's aesthetic'? The gallery show '3 Women' offers some answers 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

As the hours rolled on, the intense rush of events turned into a surreal holding pattern: networks in special coverage, Boston in lockdown, but no arrest or showdown. Boston Manhunt: Scrambling, Waiting, and Digging for Meaning on a Surreal Media Day 2013-04-19T20:28:18Z

Part carnival and part surreal protest, it's a mass project incorporating projections and the Ebbw Valley Brass band. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-06-29T23:05:28Z

The play is meditative and surreal, fantastical and funny. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

It was the most surreal — I could tell they were completely out of it. | Mark Ronson: An Admirer Of Tight Production, But of Sludge, Too 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z

But after Mr. Mubarak’s fall, writing a factual account felt like an inadequate way to capture the surreal experience of ordinary Egyptians who lived through the uprisings and subsequent crackdowns, she said. Middle Eastern Writers Find Refuge in the Dystopian Novel 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

With its muted rose and yellows, the angular animation is classical but inventive, even surreal. ‘The King and the Mockingbird,’ From Paul Grimault 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

In this time of surreal terror, a gaping leadership vacuum opened and the governor of New York stepped into it with 111 straight days of daily press briefings. Pater Familiar: Watching Andrew Cuomo's pandemic briefings finally let me grieve my father 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z

Last Week Tonight has made television so surreal that it only just qualifies as comedy. How John Oliver started a revolution in US TV's political satire 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

And in a blink, it turns her waking life into a surreal torment. How "Stranger Things 4" transforms Max into a dream warrior worthy of Wes Craven 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

I drove up to the end of the road, and trudged over a surreal landscape of lukewarm streams and geothermal steam blowing from holes in the earth like a dozen boiling tea kettles. Frugal Traveler Blog: Iceland in Winter Means Deals and Fewer Crowds 2011-12-27T17:53:47Z

When Ted explains that his book is in the surrealist tradition, he is told, “You mean the narcoleptic tradition. . . . Before you get to surreal, you have to get real.” David Duchovny’s hilarious new novel hits a home run 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

The more surreal the association, he said, the more tenacious its hold in the mind. Harry Lorayne, Dazzling Master of Total Recall, Is Dead at 96 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Jackson wrote surreal, delightfully nightmarish tales including “The Haunting of Hill House” and “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” while being constrained by, but rarely fulfilling, the midcentury American expectations of being a housewife. Best books of 2017: The best nonfiction 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

His surreal acrylic gouache landscapes seem frolicky at first, with their bunnies, kangaroos, giraffes, fish, peacocks, Chinese demons, sci-fi creatures and male and female nudes cavorting. What a pretty picture ... OMG, what's happening in it, you'll ask, at 2 Seattle shows 2010-09-16T22:24:00Z

From then on, slightly abstract, sometimes surreal touches are added to this realistic backdrop. Review: Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo Sizzle in ‘Roméo et Juliette’ at the Met 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

“It was so surreal. They read back to me why I was selected — and I don’t even have the words to describe what it felt like to hear,” he said. MacArthur fellow Yuval Sharon: Opera's man of the moment on how he will use his $625,000 award 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

His fans relish his surreal, inventive images of the afterlife, but particularly his vivid visions of hell: sinners straddling giant knife-blades, egg-shaped machines churning miscreants into their bellies, cruel hybrid frog-devils and dog-faced lizard birds. From Hell to Heaven in the Hometown of Bosch 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

A film about a man revolving around the world, Duncan Jones’s solemn and surreal science-fiction meditation stars Sam Rockwell as a lone astronaut working on a lunar mine. What’s on TV Sunday: Country Music Awards and ‘The Walking Dead’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

So what if that life happens to be animated and surreal? Review | ‘BoJack Horseman’ returns with its most emotional season yet 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

"There was really something new happening, and we did some crazy concerts in Damascus, in Jordan, it was surreal, it was almost like a psychedelic adventure." Yasmine Hamdan: the modern face of Arabic music 2013-05-22T19:00:01Z

Eventually, it simply spirals off into a surreal and slightly bizarre dead end involving Carol Vorderman, Countdown, death and grief. Wild Horses 2010-06-27T20:45:00Z

In Marshall’s work, Sleeping Beauty’s white face and flowing blonde hair are surreal and out of place, a source of bemusement for a couple of toddlers. Seattle Art Museum’s ‘Figuring History’ a powerful look at who is represented in art 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

When her grief caught up with her, it happened suddenly in what must count as one of the most surreal mornings of her life. The persistence of Rumer 2011-03-17T21:29:00Z

It's a horrific, violent turning point in Western civilization, and neither artist nor writer attempts to soften its brutality or surreal "logic." Comics: Brilliant 'Louvre' graphic novel draws strong story 2011-04-05T19:47:03Z

Later, Pollard said meeting the man whose life she saved felt surreal. A ‘miracle’ and a ‘shock’: Months later, D.C. woman meets the stranger whose life she saved 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

His mother was sympathetic and helpful, but in a gag that runs throughout the show, Mr. Gethard surreally found himself thinking, “She sounds so much like Carmela Soprano, it’s uncanny.” Review: In ‘Career Suicide,’ Laughing When It Hurts 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Constant shelling in the distance provides surreal background noise, though the gang is oddly blasé about their situation. What Does It Mean to Live in Ukraine? Filmmakers Offer Their Answers. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

People are constantly offering each other small, surreal services – one man reverently shaves a woman's legs with a cut-throat razor. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – review 2012-06-21T14:41:32Z

Worst of all, in one of those chillingly surreal moments that makes me forgive Lynch and Frost all the previous inscrutable longueurs, the camera tracks from Bill’s cell to the next. Twin Peaks recap: episodes one and two – crazy town just got much, much weirder 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

It was surreal seeing a little me running around. A Minute With: Joan Jett on life as a "Runaway" 2010-03-18T04:21:00Z

But Fisher likens the film more to a “surreal reality show” featuring “unreal people.” Carrie Fisher in Telluride: 'I’m just getting bigger and older. That's not good' 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

And even when he's boasting, as he does on Fizzy Flow, there is a quirky, surreal quality to his brags. New band of the day: Scrufizzer (No 1,397) 2012-11-15T20:30:01Z

I Used to Go Here is a comedy of quarterlife or thirdlife crisis with a throwaway lightness and dapper self-awareness, combined with a broad and surreal streak of farce. The best films of 2020 ... that you haven't seen 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

Weighing every note and inflection, he brought out all the alienation and yearning in each song, dispersed them with surreally humorous patter, then plunged back in, again and again. Pop and Jazz Concert Highs of 2011 2011-12-28T23:32:40Z

For the Boys and their entire Bodega Hive, making the list is a surreal achievement. Shout Out to the Bodega Boys, From the Bronx to the Best-Seller List 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

She examines the sort of everyday things that are right in front of all of us, “but with a surreal twist that holds our attention,” Mr. Berry said. Breaking Through Categories and Conventions at BAM 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

The movie casually blends the plausible and the surreal, A. O. Scott wrote in The Times, and its limitations, “as frothy as the milk atop a cappuccino, are finally inseparable from its delights.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour’ and ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

Behind its easygoing, lighthearted tone is a precisely calibrated, subtly surreal ode to that time of life when boys’ voices are changing and they experience the stirrings of interest in the opposite sex. Review: A House Car? For ‘Microbe and Gasoline,’ It’s Freedom 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

"It's a little bit surreal in the sense that I know that people have seen it, but I'm still driving my kid to school in the morning," Perry said, with a laugh. Perry climbs 'Beautiful Tree' to new heights 2010-10-01T16:01:00Z

Layering understated movement with conversational text, in obliquely funny and surreal ways, “Heera” prods at themes of memory, imagination, aging and coming-of-age. Performing and Creating as Equals Across the Age Gap 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

The second half burrows into Nixon’s China plans, with surreal results. Perspective | Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It’s happened before. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

The latter's black-and-white drawings are typically surreal, enlivening Filiu's history: three-faced British generals illustrate the Balfour declaration, ships swirl around a Libyan envoy's turban and prospectors grub, nose first, in the desert sands for oil. Best of Enemies by Jean-Pierre Filiu and David B – review 2012-05-29T11:00:25Z

By wearing their uniform, rather than the uniform of the people in the room, he was making the surreal real, just as the video he later showed of bombs raining down on his cities did. The Man in the Olive Green Tee 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

So begins “Level Up,” a British indie that rearranges the bones of Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours” — man seeking woman endures a surreal urban odyssey — into a familiar vision of technology-fostered callousness. Review: In ‘Level Up,’ Yanked From a Video Game Stupor to a Real Mission 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

The technique will allow for some surreal sights; for instance, the angels painted on the ballroom’s ceiling fresco will appear to descend into the audience. ArtsBeat: Young Entrepreneur to Turn Dance Shows at Hammerstein Ballroom Into Dreamlike Theatrical Events 2012-01-11T16:39:43Z

The tale itself often drifts away from the suspense-driven logic of conventional horror into realms of gauzy romance, surreal grotesquerie and demented trippiness. Review: ‘The Love Witch,’ Hell-Bent on Capturing Your Heart 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Marra’s humor floats most freely in his dialogue, which is both acidic and surreal. Books of The Times: ‘A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,’ by Anthony Marra 2013-05-07T20:50:26Z

The Kahlo we would celebrate for her symbolic self-portraits, combining surreal imagery and Mexican folk art, was only just starting to come into her own. Review | When he found out his father had an affair with Frida Kahlo, an author’s investigation began 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

The Simpsons are such iconic characters; Bart could be that age forever because it’s a more surreal show. Mike Judge on ‘Silicon Valley,’ T.J. Miller’s Exit and How ‘Idiocracy’ Endures 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z

As the production unfolds, Mr. Herheim pushes his concept in surreal, sometimes silly ways. Music Review: Reimagining Wagner’s ‘Meistersinger’ at Salzburg Festival 2013-08-05T21:45:01Z

The earliest pieces are mostly small, intensely colored and surreal, with faceless characters cast in enigmatic situations. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Snoo Wilson, Surrealistic British Playwright, Dies at 64 Snoo Wilson, a British playwright and director whose surreal work slyly critiqued social injustices and conventions, died on Wednesday. Snoo Wilson, Surrealistic British Playwright, Dies at 64 2013-07-08T01:09:55Z

But this engaging, surreal and occasionally frustrating, 30-episode series about the hunt for a prom queen’s killer was ahead of its time. How “Twin Peaks” shaped the entire golden age of TV 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

This year, the singer FKA twigs is in residence at the city’s Old Granada Studios, where you can watch her and a team of dancers create surreal art-music videos. Taking Manchester to the Global Stage 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

These hyper-realistic narratives are balanced by the surreal leaps in “Pyramids,” which travels from ancient Egypt to a tawdry strip club, capped by a hazy, acid-rock guitar solo. Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange' 2012-07-13T16:35:00Z

It is this surreal juxtaposition of ordinary life and the extremes of war that “In the Wolf’s Mouth” captures so well. ‘In the Wolf’s Mouth,’ by Adam Foulds

It’s kind of surreal, for all of us, its been a long road. Adam Scott on Friends with Kids, Party Down and His Long Road to Success 2012-03-09T16:30:25Z

On Lakes Powell and Mead, the surreal desert and canyon landscapes of these dam-formed lakes tempts houseboaters to anchor on a sandy beach and use it as a base for exploration. Aboard rented houseboats, vacationers take to the water at a safe distance 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

Seven pupils endure a surreal educational regimen with a mix of feverish enthusiasm and dead-eyed deference. Review: In ‘Skinnamarink,’ Follow Instructions. Or Else. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

As co-showrunners, their fingerprints are on everything, down to the surreal paintings of the cast that line the walls of the dining room set. Another Period: behind the scenes of the Downton Abbey parody 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

Her pent-up frustration boils over, and she begins speaking in the voices of other women, some living, some dead, the one moment where the story tips from the mundane into the slightly surreal. The Heroine of This Korean Best Seller Is Extremely Ordinary. That’s the Point. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

The Youngs’ “unnervingly surreal misadventure” is as strange as science fiction. 2010-01-29T06:14:00Z

Her work, which often features isolated or exaggerated body parts, evokes a kind of surreal humanity: She recently showed a nearly 19-foot-long bench shaped like a woman with breasts running down the torso. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

Then I spent the next few hours alone with my thoughts, ambling around the airport in a surreal state of bliss. I won big on "Jeopardy!" So why does it still haunt me? 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z

If you have a taste for his hauntingly enigmatic stories, in which the surreal, the Kafkesque and the undecidable are related in elegant Augustan prose, you will be eager to acquire everything he ever wrote. Summer’s hidden gems, selected by Michael Dirda 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

There are pop-culture one-liners and bigger philosophical talk, along with surreal riffs on dinosaurs, ghosts, history and books that never get read. In ‘Corsicana,’ Will Arbery Puts Art, Family and Down Syndrome Onstage 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

But what keeps “Separation Anxiety” from spinning off into some surreal parallel universe of silliness is Zigman’s attention to the ordinary absurdities of middle-class life. Review | Laura Zigman’s ‘Separation Anxiety’ tackles middle-aged loneliness with a perfect mix of grief and humor 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

The combination is a little surreal, although the statement is perfectly logical and sensible. Chain Ghazal: Chickens by Esther Greenleaf Mürer 2013-03-18T12:33:15Z

It’s sort of elevated reality, where you get to tell really beautiful stories, but everything is slightly surreal, and I really love what unlocks emotionally for people. John Legend and the ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Cast on Faith and Musicals 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Sliced into two-foot sections and arranged across the gallery, it looks like the cogs of some enormous, surreal machine. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

If Mr. Mills has a trademark, it’s using hands-on instruments in unconventional proportions, nudging the music toward the surreal. Review: Laura Marling’s ‘Semper Femina’ Seeks the Cryptic in the Plainspoken 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

In one surreal moment, I saw two of them showing Nana Baffoe, the official representative of the tribal people who had sold their ancestor into slavery, pictures of their father on an iPad. On Slavery’s Doorstep in Ghana 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

“There’s not a soul in sight. Just a single barge. It’s surreal!” Community Radio Fights to Stay Live (and Weird) Despite Coronavirus 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

From Cherry we learned that impending motherhood is bewildering, exciting, surreal and wonderful. What have Cherry Healey and Dawn Porter taught us? 2011-08-05T23:12:01Z

Seeing her father, who died in 1976, portrayed on screen was a surreal experience. Hollywood blacklisted my father Dalton Trumbo: now I’m proud they’ve put him on screen 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

Regarding 9/11: “It was surreal and horrifying,” she writes. She Breaks Rules While Expecting Students to Follow Them 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

But the work, which opened on Saturday, feels intact, and it shows the surreal glory of the choreographer’s vision while occasionally lapsing into time-slowing tedium that is, paradoxically, also a part of that vision. Review: ‘Viktor’ Is Vintage Pina Bausch, Complete With Gravedigger 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

There was a surreal quality to the facts as they came to light, known knowns pouring out, surprising only in their multitude, his associates feigning astonishment. Rose McGowan: 'I won't be free of Harvey Weinstein until he's dead – or I am' 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

Brokaw is quick to clarify this is a commemorative tour as opposed to a full-fledged reformation, and says the shows so far have been "surreal." Slowcore band Codeine briefly reunites after 18 years 2012-07-05T20:52:04Z

No, she was telling two surreal tales at once. Review: Yuja Wang Plays Dazed Chaos, Then 7 Encores 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

The comedy and search for ontological significance typify the mix of the quotidian, the surreal and the mystical which remain a hallmark of his writing. Selected Poems by Don Paterson ? review 2012-05-18T21:45:03Z

Some choose to treat their anxieties through surreal humour. France's 'lost generation' of jobless youth finds film portrait in Juliette 2013-07-20T23:06:06Z

But here and there he takes a turn for the surreal. Creatures with a purpose: the heightened 'naturalism' of Skagit Valley painter Robert McCauley 2010-12-30T20:48:04Z

The 1871 courthouse, which looms in surreal French Renaissance style, still contains the original dark lockup. Buffalo, the Pawnee and an Old Story on a Trip Across the Plains 2012-06-22T16:48:50Z

I could be surreal and strange like Liz Lemon and Tracy Jordan. How Liz Lemon inspired me to quit my job 2011-05-12T20:25:00Z

Engulfed in its massive chassis, I would coast down 14th Avenue with its synchronized lights, not having to stop for miles, with the glorious Rockies ahead of me, almost surreal in their beauty. “I’d like it if you’d go back to the hotel with me”: My life as a female cabbie 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

The best of Bazille is almost surreal, growing stranger the longer you look at it, and ever more unlike how we imagine we actually see the world. Review | Young, gifted, and cut down by a stupid war 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Jascha is an acclaimed writer, often compared with Kafka and Gogol, having made his reputation with a surreal novel about his wartime experiences called “The Way Down.” Book World: ‘The Train to Warsaw’ by Gwen Edelman

More human interchange and less surreal comment seem advisable. Tainted-blood scandal of '80s Japan brought to life on the L.A. stage 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

For Tester, the Senate trial has been a surreal experience, as he’s forced to play the role of both witness and juror. Donald Trump’s version of an insanity defense: His critics are insane 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

She calls the film "beautiful" but ultimately a "surreal" experience which ended with her decision not to walk the Oscars' red carpet. Sapphire's "The Kid" won't get Hollywood treatment 2011-07-14T13:08:04Z

It is a dreamy, surreal parable set in Slab City, Calif., a desert campsite that looks like something between a trailer park and a Martian utopia. A Director Follows Acclaim for ‘Tangerine’ With a Film for Kenzo 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

From its pirate ship to its surreal Tick Tock crocodile, the production hung a light on its artificiality, and it worked. Review: Peter Pan Live! and the Case for Snark 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

In the fall, the surreal and subversive “Underground Railroad Game” opened to rapturous reviews off-Broadway. A powerful symbol of resistance, the Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

There is also surreal shrine to Michael Faraday in his experiment hut – various Da Vinci contraptions in rusted steel – and a deliciously authentic and cheap American diner, Fatboy's, where we ate lunch. TS Eliot's The Waste Land 2012 – a multimedia walk 2012-07-30T11:14:00Z

This has everything: a surreal sea of holes, Nowhere Man, a Lonely Hearts Club Band and a readymade soundtrack. Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z

As Rooster and young Mattie take grimly to the road together, surreally encountering what appears to be a bear riding a house, there are more hints of McCarthy. True Grit ? review 2011-02-10T14:59:01Z

He brings a slightly surreal quality to the opera’s lighter elements, epitomized by the character of Oscar, the irreverent court page. Music Review: ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’ at Metropolitan Opera 2012-11-09T21:13:05Z

Pop Art, a sad, surreal tale about a juvenile delinquent becoming friends with an inflatable boy, was the first story he wrote that made him feel like he was in the right place. Joe Hill: Sympathy for the devil 2010-04-13T12:28:00Z

There's a fairytale quality to Amy Bullock's surreal abstracts, where iridescent colours suggest the wings of butterflies or rippling water. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-19T23:09:33Z

Recycle Here! was founded in 2005 by Matthew Naimi, a stocky, bearded man with a barrel laugh and a healthy sense of the surreal. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

This show has always had this other layer, which is this sci-fi, surreal aspect of it. Gregg Araki Wants to Make America Gay Again 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

“I was like, ‘No, this is just so surreal.’” Alexa Demie, a Breakout Star of ‘Euphoria,’ Has Hidden Talents 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

These casual exchanges, sometimes almost surreal in their inconsequentiality, set up the subsequent sketches in loopy, indirect ways. In ‘Key & Peele’ Season Premiere, a Shift in Tone and Volume 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

There is a scary and surreal appearance by a bear. Chernobyl Diaries – review 2012-06-21T21:00:02Z

Rather, there is in every artist here a proportionally various mix of the real and the surreal. Art Review: ?Real-Surreal? at the Whitney - Review 2011-10-27T22:50:36Z

By the time you get to the surreal epilogue, it’s as if they were in a low-stakes sitcom called “Oh That Joan!” Review: In Shaw’s ‘Saint Joan,’ a Sane and Sensible Martyr 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Occasionally, prior to killing or dismembering someone, a combatant will run up a wall and flip over backwards, surreally like Donald O'Connor. The Raid ? review 2012-05-17T14:29:02Z

The scene in the bar back in those days often was surreal. Do you love ‘Love Actually’? Then here's everything you need to know about ‘Love Actually Live’ 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Even at that young age I just saw us, our humanity in them, and it was just a surreal awakening. "Little Bird": The terrifying possibility of what a Christian nationalist America could look like 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

True to its name, it sits surreally on a lake, on an island barely larger than the building. Journeys: Palace-Hopping in Poland 2012-06-15T18:41:28Z

The latter felt especially present in the Florida group’s use of singing saw and its surreal lyrics about confusion around who we are and what all this is. Three emo bands fight the alienation of the online world by rocking out IRL 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Perhaps he is just identifying with the protagonist in his new film The Double - a surreal reworking of Dostoevsky's novella of the same name. Richard Ayoade does The Double 2014-04-07T05:50:06Z

Other songs turn surreal, like “Westward,” overlaying folky picking with Hollywood-epic swirls for the tale of a woman trying to sail away from her sorrows. New Music: Albums From Clare and the Reasons and Maroon 5 2012-07-09T20:55:00Z

And who thought that trying to mine the surreal style of Moschino with trompe l’oeil ruffles on entire outfits was a good idea? Special Report: Breaking Free at the Seams 2010-03-07T18:43:00Z

It was the most surreal and wonderful evening of my life. Rumer's old music: Burt Bacharach – Hasbrook Heights 2012-05-22T09:35:00Z

Once the nest “became” her face, “Wayfarer” became akin to watching a surreal sculpture on the move. Seattle International Dance Festival 2013 kicks off 2013-06-17T20:09:36Z

In this and a deft zombie parody that didn’t air but was released online, Mr. O’Brien carefully roots the scene in reality, laying the groundwork for a shift into the surreal. ‘Saturday Night Live’ Gears Up for an Anniversary 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

What begins as a mixture of vérité footage and interviews morphs into a surreal travel documentary when McCorkle joins a training center for drag queens and aspiring actors in the Philippines. ‘I’m an Electric Lampshade’ Review: My Accountant, the Pop Star 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

It’s an illusion, perhaps, but the surreal results are irresistible. Nordic Heritage Museum casts edgy ‘Weather Diaries’ exhibit 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

Bigley added that she found their reunion to be an "indescribable" and "surreal" experience. Long-lost sisters reunite after more than 20 years apart: 'Our future is bright' 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

The screenplay is blunt and to the point, and the performances are subtly tinged with a surreal comic edge. | 'The Optimists': Best of All Possible Worlds: When Life Gives You Mud, Take a Mud Bath 2011-07-27T22:21:43Z

His early work took the form of surreal lectures, the artist drawing demented diagrams while delivering a babble of cod science and social theory. Artist of the week 2010-08-04T16:33:00Z

It must be surreal to go from working in the trenches for years and years to suddenly having the bright spotlight on you. #MeToo founder Tarana Burke reflects on the movement — and the reckoning 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Parade sound like the sort of perfectly untroubled and fashionably ambitious types we saw singing tremulously and dancing anxiously in Lola, the "girl group" from ITV2's surreally gripping docusoap The Only Way Is Essex. New band of the day ? No 960: Parade 2011-02-03T17:26:24Z

Before this wonder fades for another 17 years, there will be a couple of lingering reminders that this wasn’t some surreal dream. Perspective | Fall is prime tree planting season, but what about next spring’s cicada eruption? 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

Gore in 2000 and just after the 9/11 attacks, real news became so surreal and television news so lathered that a fake news show could find its footing just by playing things relatively straight. Review: ‘The Daily Show (The Book)’ Reveals How Jon Stewart Made News 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

The sight of dancing ceiling panels as an explosion goes off above is a suitably surreal visual that only leads to more kinetic activity. Review: ‘Three’ Asks, Any Mozart Aficionados in the House? 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

The trip has just become even more surreal. Spies, Chopin and a Libya rescue 2013-01-14T07:00:03Z

A typical show would consist of surreal observations on life in Frank's shed, a cameo from glove puppet Little Frank and, more often than not, a tombola. Chris Sievey obituary 2010-06-22T14:16:00Z

It was silly and surreal and ended up with them stark naked. Susan Calman: my Edinburgh survival tips 2012-07-29T17:19:01Z

When asked how he knew when an experiment was working, his answer was, perhaps fittingly, tinged with the surreal: Melvin Sokolsky, Surrealist Fashion Photographer, Dies at 88 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

But the action — even with liberal helpings of slow motion, eerily smooth crosscuts between shifting scenes, odd juxtapositions and a Mélisande double — is not much more surreal than most other “Pelléas” productions. Review: ‘Il Trionfo’ and ‘Pelléas’ at the Aix-en-Provence Festival 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z

The surreal and sometimes unsettling story is grounded by the three-time Caldecott medalist Wiesner’s soft, realistic artwork, and Napoli’s spare text transports us inside Fish Girl’s head as she pieces things together. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

"It's surreal — rain never sounds like this," Koch said. Rain Room at LACMA is an indoor storm where the water is recycled and you won't get wet 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Especially because they’re some surreal elements to this, the fantasies, this Greek chorus metaphor for being a hero. Zach Braff: "There Are No Great Roles in Film, They’re All Dried Up" 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

“Our wedding day was fun, but it was surreal,” Dr. Johnson said. Revelry on the Rooftops 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

Filmed with a combination of drone, Go-Pro cameras and a socially distanced cinematographer, it is terrifying yet surreally peaceful. 'I had this image of my husband making love to a tree': directors on filming shorts for Netflix's Homemade 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

So on that Sunday I took a car to ABC’s New York City studio near Lincoln Center and prepared for a surreal experience. How I Won Big on $100,000 Pyramid 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

His life was taking on a surreal slant, yoked to a strange secret that separated him from others. T Magazine: Time Travel 2012-05-10T13:00:55Z

But the cartoons are more surreal: They are impossible. ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg’ Review: The Machinery of Humor 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

Others — a much smaller crowd — trek through thick jungles for a few days and roam caverns draped in surreal billowing and dripping limestone formations. Exploring Spectacular Caves in a Quiet Corner of Vietnam 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

“Still surreal that it’s my day job to close the loop.” Virgil Abloh, Ambassador and Infiltrator 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

His most surreal theater experience was as part of the original cast of the musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” playing one of the four Geek Chorus narrators. Gideon Glick Brings a Bit of Himself to ‘The Few’ 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

The change to big plays and musicals was surreal. Douglas Hodge gets nosy in 'Cyrano' on Broadway 2012-10-10T12:37:08Z

About a week after he returned home, we spoke about the surreal nature of the present moment: Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

It was very surreal to read those lyrics all of these years later. Nine Albums Later, Tegan and Sara Are Finally Ready to Discuss High School 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

It’s still kind of surreal to me when young girls are saying ‘I want to be like H.E.R. She plays the guitar. I want to play it too.’ H.E.R. does juggling act with concert tours, acting, Grammys 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

Andrea Heimer’s acrylic/pencil works on wood panel push a similar faux-naïf sensibility in a different thematic direction, with scenes of Sweet 16 parties and other innocent activities taking a chaotic or surreal turn. Artists tackle ‘Suburbia: Dream or Nightmare?’ at Linda Hodges 2013-12-19T20:57:37Z

Yet far from being docudramas, they're feverish journeys into surreal realms, with three taking place in the afterlife — and the opening act taking place on the moon. At New City Theater: 'Tiny Kushner' provides 5 short plays, epic effect 2012-09-27T20:25:08Z

She also debuts a recently written murder ballad, her delicate frame dwarfed by the surreal dimensions of the cello banjo. Abigail Washburn: fingerpicking good bluegrass with Chinese flavouring 2011-01-20T23:08:01Z

That was the surreal thing: how normal everything could seem, or at least how normal everyone tried to act. A better border is possible 2012-05-26T22:00:00Z

The film “has the faintly surreal look peculiar to Australian movies in which nature pulses with a mysterious, primordial shimmer,” Mr. Holden wrote in The Times in April. DVD: New DVDs: ‘Midsomer Murders,’ ‘George Gently’ 2012-06-29T21:58:00Z

Crystal is surreal and gorgeous in blue velvet; Gigi comes out in a gawky teen prom dress look, mouth brace and all. RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season 12, episode 12 – what happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z

He prefers playing basketball, or practicing his terrible golf game, or drawing surreal nature images. Ryan Lochte, Olmypic Swimmer and Sex Symbol 2012-06-09T10:00:23Z

“It is definitely a bit surreal to watch those moments and recognize certain things that are from our lives,” Mr. Akil said. The Black Sitcom Steps Out of the ’90s and Gets Real 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

She begins with a surreal trip to a roadside diner, but her journeys take her to the desert, the beach and the mountains. ‘The Seven Faces of Jane’ Review: One Movie, Eight Directors 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

Matters soon took a turn for the surreal. As 'True Story' weaves a web of ambiguity, whom can we believe? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

In an email interview, Schweblin discussed the avoidance of technology in literature, the surreal nature of her work and how she thinks quarantine is affecting us. Samanta Schweblin Talks About Her Creepy New Novel 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Some of it straddles the line between the representational and the surreal. A Tribute to Black Artists Could Signal a Change for Museums 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

In describing her work, which now encompasses nine shorts and two feature films, including the new film “Zola,” you want to use words like surreal, disturbing, satirical, absurd, otherworldly. In ‘Zola,’ Janciza Bravo’s cinema of ‘life at high volume’ 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

Many of the stories here pivot on encounters with animals and spirits in ways that reveal tender, intricate textures, suspended in shifting terrain between the solid and the surreal. Immerse yourself in Percival Everett's 'Half an Inch of Water' and Joanna Walsh's 'Vertigo' 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Armitage spins out surreal satires sharpened by his wicked wit. Books of The Times: Poems by Bao Phi, Roberto Bola?o and Simon Armitage ? Review 2011-12-19T22:52:42Z

Her career began in a Radio 4 comedy with Arabella Weir, and she went on to be cast in Big Train, Blue Jam – Chris Morris's surreal radio comedy – and its TV offshoot, Jam. Dark star: Julia Davis 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z