Dorothea Tanning

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Frieze London & Frieze Masters
Celebrating 100 Years of Surrealism at Frieze

Discover the movement’s iconic artists and contemporary legacy at the London fairs, from Man Ray, Dora Maar and Leonora Carrington, to Carol Bove and Leiko Ikemura

BY Livia Russell |
Frieze Masters
Covering up the Cracks: The Return of Wallpaper

How artists from Édouard Vuillard to Dorothea Tanning and Kehinde Wiley used wallpaper in their work 

BY Shelley Klein |
One Takes
The Sinister Sensuality of Mervyn Peake’s Drawings

‘I could sit among the velvet blackness forever’

BY Gabriella Pounds |
Features
How Paint and Perception Collide in the Work of Late Surrealist Dorothea Tanning

Tanning gives full expression to her childhood imagination and its innately eclectic catalogue of fears, fantasies and domestic psychodramas

BY Claire-Louise Bennett |
Opinion
Why the Resurgent Interest in Female Surrealists Needs to Be Reflected in Museum Collections

The current appetite for historical, underrecognized female artists is welcome but urgent work still needs to be done

BY Antonia Cundy |