It's hard to imagine today when we're constantly barraged with algorithm-selected content in the palm of our hands, but until the 1960s, the concept of turning on the TV and seeing images of Count Dracula one second and then the Vietnam War the next moment was incomprehensible. For the first time, people were seeing images of political assassinations, the oppression of protests and the carnage of war in their living rooms.

Artists made sense of this surreal new reality—or tried to, at least—through sculpture, painting and collages. A new exhibit at The Whitney titled " Sixties Surreal " highlights the work made by more than 100 artists between 1958 and 1972, including a soft toilet, a phallic chair, an uncanny camel and feminist sculptures. The exhibition brings together famed works by

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