Surrealism
Surrealism
Ghanaian pavilion: returning country's presentation to spill out across Venice
For its second appearance at the Biennale, Ghana will install modular bamboo structures in locations around the city
Under a revolutionary, emancipatory spell: Venice exhibition explores Surrealism’s interest in the occult
Major show at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection includes works by leading lights of Surrealism, including Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning
The odd story behind Magritte’s castle in the air painting
The work was commissioned by a New York lawyer to cover an ugly view from his office and now takes centre stage in a new show in Jerusalem
Metropolitan Museum of Art director Max Hollein sets out his vision for the future
Plus, the "golden age" of Beiruti art at the Gropius Bau in Berlin and Meret Oppenheim's Surrealist white heels at the Menil Collection in Houston
Major Surrealist paintings make auction debut at Sotheby's Paris, including Picabia's very modern muse
The 25-lot sale tomorrow includes works that reflect "how irrational, how ugly, and how challenging the modern world can be"
A Dorothea Tanning exhibition reveals the urgency and timeliness of the surreal
Surrealist artists, especially women, are gaining renewed institutional and market traction
Extract | Surrealism’s tricky global transformation
The art historian Partha Mitter looks at Surrealism’s uneasy relationship with colonialism and primitivism in this extract from a catalogue accompanying a new Tate show about the movement’s worldwide impact
From bowler hats to bad forgeries: new biography offers a fresh look at René Magritte’s complex life—including his dodgier side hustles
The sympathetic book by Alex Danchev, acclaimed biographer of Braque and Cézanne, died before completing the final chapter of this publication
Storm in a furry teacup? There was much more to Meret Oppenheim than her most famous work
Kunstmuseum Bern's major survey on the Swiss Surrealist aims to give an account of her long and varied career
The global appeal of Surrealism explored in exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York show, which will travel to London next year, looks at how the movement inspired artists around the world long into the 20th century
Surrealism, Sickert, Cézanne and Cornelia Parker’s exploding shed: what to see at Tate in 2022
British artist Hew Locke has been selected for Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries commission, while Barbara Hepworth gets a survey at Tate St Ives
Señor Mustache Mustache and a sinister taco-seller: Leonora Carrington's son on the colourful characters inspiring the next Venice Biennale
Gabriel Weisz Carrington recalls the fantastical tales imagined by his Surrealist artist mother that informed the title for next year’s big art event
Slavery: the groundbreaking Dutch exhibition confronting colonial history
Plus, Leonora Carrington's Surrealist children's book behind the next Venice Biennale and Rubens's landscapes reunited after 200 years
'Art is our spiritual oxygen': new shows to see in London and New York
We discuss Matthew Barney, Igshaan Adams, Eileen Agar and Louise Bourgeois
At home with the Surrealists: Leonora Carrington's Mexico City house and studio to open to the public
University-led project prepares artist's home of 65 years and its 8,000 objects for guided tours starting later this year
Trove of Surrealist publications and paintings donated to Dutch museum
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's gift from collectors Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong “opens up new horizons on surrealist activities”, says expert
Remembering Luchita Hurtado, painter, eco-warrior and witness to a century of art
The Venezuelan artist— associated with the founders of European Surrealism and the New York School in the 1940s—centred her art on nature and her own life story, and became a sensation in her 99th year
'We are all Surrealists now': how life with Leonora Carrington prepared me for coronavirus lockdown
Joanna Moorhead, the biographer and relative of the rediscovered Surrealist woman artist, talks about learning to adventure creatively from the confines of home
Surrealism: what was Britain's role?
Plus, Independent Art Fair's director on New York's changing gallery landscape. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793
René Magritte: a buyer's guide
The artist’s trademark motifs make his work easily recognisable and desirable—but there is more to this Surrealist than apples and bowler hats
Here come the 'angels of anarchy': Surrealist women to steal the shows in 2020
Exhibitions in UK, Europe and US speak to growing public appetite for scholarship on the women of art history
At last, Dora Maar emerges from her lover Picasso’s shadow
Major survey of the Surrealist photographer at Centre Pompidou will travel to Tate Modern and the Getty Center
Bonus podcast: Dorothea Tanning show comes to Tate Modern
The full, unedited cut from our discussion with Alyce Mahon, the exhibition’s curator. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
Surreal ideas about sex: how Dorothea Tanning and Leonor Fini resisted being pigeonholed by their gender
On The Art Newspaper podcast this week, we explore the life and work of two women connected to Surrealism whose work had until recently been overlooked
Don’t call me a woman artist: overlooked Surrealists. Plus, Klimt/Schiele
We talk to Alyce Mahon, the curator of the Dorothea Tanning exhibition in Madrid, and adviser for the Leonor Fini show in New York about the art and life of the two surrealist artists. Plus, as a spate of shows open in Europe and the US, we discuss how Klimt and Schiele compare. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
The art of the Great British Bake Off
Art UK's Twitter hashtag encourages an arty take on the popular Channel 4 programme
Surrealist Dorothea Tanning finally gets long-merited major survey
Show of artist whose work “undermines old idea of Surrealism being about the objectification of women” opens in Madrid before travelling to London
Surrealism in the digital age: Beirut exhibition looks at new wave of 20th-century art movement
Show at Lebanon's Aishti Foundation is last in a trilogy exploring its vast private collection before its first solo presentation of Albert Oehlen
Chicago’s Surrealists get the homecoming they deserve at the Arts Club
An exhibition at the historic members club recognises a lesser known group of artists