Remembering Desmond Morris, the Surrealist painter and zoologist who explored the artistic abilities of apes – The Art Newspaper
You could never have a short conversation with Desmond Morris, one of the last surviving Surrealists, who has…
New film about Leonora Carrington blends fact with fiction – The Art Newspaper
Leonora in the Morning Light, a new film about the British Mexican Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), is…
Rediscovered Leonora Carrington painting to go on show for the first time at London’s Freud Museum – The Art Newspaper
A painting by the Surrealist Leonora Carrington, created while she was hospitalised in a Spanish sanatorium, will go…
Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, Revived in a New Biography by Andrew Durbin
The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek by Andrew Durbin Andrew…
Lee Miller retrospective: “I didn’t waste a minute of all my life”
Lee Miller, Tate Britain, London until February 15, 2026 and then at the Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris and…
Frida Kahlo Painting Could Shatter Women Artist Record at Sotheby’s
On Friday, Sotheby’s announced that it had secured a blockbuster consignment of Surrealist works, led by Frida Kahlo’s…
Metropolitan Museum gifted 188 Dada and Surrealist works – The Art Newspaper
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s holdings of works from the early 20th century associated with Dada and Surrealism…
Pauline Karpidas £60M Collection Headlines Sotheby’s London This Fall
Pauline Karpidas has built a deeply personal collection that fused Surrealism, contemporary art and bold design into an…
The 10 Most Extreme Experiments Known to Literature
Experimental fiction is more popular than you might expect. An impressive 37.6% of Americans prefer it to more…