Simon and Garfunkel, selfies and fibreglass KitKats – the week in art

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Surrealist Encounters: Collecting the Marvellous
The surrealist movement is usually looked at from the point of view of the poets and artists who signed up to André Breton’s idea that dreams are revolutionary. But this exhibition sees it from the perspective of the eccentrics and enthusiasts who paid the bills for all those calls on the lobster telephone.
• Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 4 June-11 September

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