Surrealism officially began in 1924 when the critic André Breton published the “Manifesto of Surrealism.” It would become a global artistic movement, a practice that delved into dreams and visions, drawing power from the irrational, the unexplainable. “Surreal America” explores Surrealism’s influence on American art, specifically as it moved toward Abstract Expressionism. The exhibition of 84 works by 59 artists includes some amazing paintings and sculptures: Mary Bauermeister’s luminous “lens box” Bilder Upward (1970); Beauford Delaney’s haunting Untitled (1971); and Ibram Lassaw’s skeletal Evening Star (1956). Then there are the incomparables, such as Ruth Asawa, Joseph Cornell, Betye Saar, and Mark Rothko. Go, if only to see The Wildehouse (1952), John Wilde’s dream house full of naked women. It predates The Stepford Wives by 20 years. —Maggie Turner