Last year Surrealism turned 100. The movement, world-renowned for its wacky, often unsettling aesthetics and sometimes-erotic ...

Leonora Carrington, the visionary first-wave Surrealist whose allegorical work mined the dreamscape, cosmos, and soul, is now entering the metaverse. Like many great stories, this all began with ...

April 6, 2017, marked the centennial of artist and writer Leonora Carrington’s birth. A British-born textile heiress who ran away from her parents, her inheritance, and bourgeois conformity to join ...

Dr. Susan Aberth, prominent cultural historian and leading Leonora Carrington scholar, has observed, “Like the alchemical processes of distillation and transmutation that abound in her work, ...

The surrealist Leonora Carrington led a "fascinating life", said Artlyst magazine. Born to an upper-class family in Lancashire, she escaped a world of debutante balls and conventional expectations to ...

Leonora Carrington, the late British-Mexican artist known for mystical landscapes and fantastical creatures, was one of the last surviving Surrealists and a key figure of the movement. Despite decades ...

The last few years have seen a bumper crop of published works by and biographies of many mid-20th century female writers: Angela Carter, Shirley Jackson, Lucia Berlin, Clarice Lispector — all reaching ...

Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, known for their mystical styles, flourished in Mexico. By Roberta Smith Some of the best paintings of Surrealism were made in Mexico during the 1940s and ’50s, by ...