Leonora Carrington

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The artist on the women Surrealists whose visions of the self, gender, emotion and transformation have influenced her own work

BY Emma Talbot | 03 OCT 22

Chloe Aridjis considers surrealism’s resurgence and how its magical qualities provide a framework for positive transformation

BY Chloe Aridjis | 21 APR 22

The movement never quite took hold in the UK but, as a new exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery shows, British culture was – and remains – deeply surreal

BY Thomas McMullan | 27 FEB 20

Contemporary art’s resurgence of interest in magic has a powerful art-historical precedent

BY Caroline Marciniak | 18 SEP 19

A surprising discovery in the work of Robert Graves unlocks the meaning of the surrealist’s elusive ‘Pig Rush’

BY Chloe Aridjis | 18 JUN 19

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

BY Antonia Cundy | 28 NOV 18

At the Barbican Gallery and the De la Warr Pavilion, two exhibitions focus on the nature of collaboration and the role of creative influence 

BY Ellen Mara De Wachter | 18 OCT 18

A new film by Josh Appignanesi shot entirely on VHS, creates a portrait of novelist Chloe Aridjis and surrealist Leonora Carrington

BY Jennifer Higgie | 27 SEP 18

Eileen Myles’s new memoir of her dog has much to say about being human

BY Negar Azimi | 21 FEB 18

Chloe Aridjis recalls taking tea with the great surrealist in her home in Mexico

BY Chloe Aridjis | 01 OCT 17