The show pushes beyond the melting clocks and dreamscapes of Salvador Dalí to ask: how did the language of surrealism reverberate through American art in the 1960s? Installation view of Sixties Surreal (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 24, 2025–Jan 19, 2026). Installation view of Sixties Surreal (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 24, 2025–Jan 19, 2026). Instead, they emerged in parallel across the U.S.—in classrooms, studios, and alternative spaces far from the New York art market. At the Whitney, that ambiguity becomes fertile ground, allowing American artists of the 1960s—and their successors today—to claim surrealism as their own.