The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Artists Rights Society, New York / ADAGP, Paris
The apocalyptic atmosphere of Max Ernst’s 1937 oil on cardboard “The Barbarians” may allude to the surrealists’ goal of turning European society upside down. 
Click through for a glimpse of the art on display in “Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s” at the Wadsworth Atheneum Oct. 20 to Jan. 13.
![Dust off your finest hats—it’s Derby day. This year marks the 150th Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The horse race has occurred annually on a Saturday in May since it began on May 17, 1875, with the only exceptions being 1945 due to World War II and 2020 because of […]](https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/202405040611TMS_____FASTCOMP_19685_ctnfc_media.jpg?w=620 "Dust off your finest hats—it’s Derby day. This year marks the 150th Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The horse race has occurred annually on a Saturday in May since it began on May 17, 1875, with the only exceptions being 1945 due to World War II and 2020 because of […]")