Surrealism

Ela Bittencourt investigates the ways in which film directors in the 1960s and '70s used surrealism as a way of interrogating unstable political moments and reimagining the future 

Hettie Judah on five spirit mediums, political agitators, self-taught outsiders or surrealists that ‘bite back’ in Cecilia Alemani’s Venice exhibition

‘Surrealism Beyond Borders’ is a comprehensive overview of one of the 20th century’s most influential movements

Agar has been widely associated with the European avant-garde movement but, as Whitechapel Gallery’s retrospective makes clear, she sought to define no one’s image but her own

On what would have been Kelley’s 66th Birthday, Gabriella Pounds explores the impact of the antic French poem ‘Les Chants de Maldoror’ on the artist and his predecessors, from Hans Bellmer to John Balance 

‘Fantastic Women’, currently on view at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, is one of many recent shows revising the art-historical canon

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

As the artist has his major retrospective at Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, he speaks about his art historical influences and pet peeves 

An exhibition at Vitra Design Museum documents the movement’s influence on commercial products

‘I could sit among the velvet blackness forever’

Tate has acquired 5,000 works by the late surrealist artist and writer

An exhibition at Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin, sheds new light on the artist’s fascination with ancient Egypt

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

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

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

With a strong surrealist strain, and including a welcome number of female artists, highlights from the 48th edition of the photography festival

Egyptian surrealism: a case-study in global modernity 

In the studio with Pedro Friedeberg, the last of Mexico’s Surrealists

Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA

Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Musée de l’Orangerie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, MuCEM, Marseille, France