Beginning in the 1880s, Brussels was an important hub for the avant-garde. In 1883, Octave Maus founded “Les XX,” a group whose annual exhibitions included works by Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and many others. Similarly, starting in 1894, La Libre Esthétique hosted shows called the “Salon of Free Aesthetics.” After the First World War, the city began to attract the Surrealists. To celebrate this important centenary, the museum has mounted an exhibition—in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou—that explores themes of poetry, dreams, the labyrinth, and metamorphosis in connection with earlier Belgian symbolists. Works by Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning, and many more are included. —Elena Clavarino

After its run in Brussels, this show travels to the Centre Pompidou, in Paris