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Max Ernst

June 2024

  • British artist Leonora Carrington in her house in Mexico in 2000.

    Long ignored, at last the surrealist art of Leonora Carrington is getting the attention it’s due

    The artist and writer is celebrated in a new UK show – but why was a woman of such talent so little known in her lifetime, asks her cousin?

April 2022

  • Red Picture with Horses

    ‘We got a kick out of it’: art forgers reveal secrets of paintings that fooled experts

    Wolfgang Beltracchi and his wife Helene sold fake paintings for millions before some inauthentic white paint led to their capture

August 2021

  • Witch's head August Natterer Date: 1915

    Book of the day
    The Gallery of Miracles and Madness by Charlie English review – the fate of Hitler’s ‘degenerate’ artists

    Salvador Dalí and Paul Klee admired their work – but asylum patients were left vulnerable when fellow artist Hitler came to power

May 2021

  • ‘Glimpses beyond the everyday’ … Leonora Carrington’s kitchen.

    Is that a surrealist masterpiece by the draining board? Inside Leonora Carrington’s sculpture-filled home

    The great British artist’s home in Mexico has been turned into a wonderful museum, full of her sculptures, books, diaries and unsmoked cigarettes. Our writer, Carrington’s cousin, takes an emotional tour

February 2019

  • Tanning, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, T07346

    Dorothea Tanning review – a gorgeous trip through gothic nightmares

    Her disturbing art is the climax of surrealism, but this exhibition also reveals Tanning’s appetite for the gothic and its long history of female creativity

August 2017

  • Artist Max Ernst in 1962.

    From the Guardian archive
    Max Ernst, the anti-traditionalist – archive, 1961

    31 August 1961 Audrey Davis visits the German artist at his home in France on the eve of a major exhibition of his work at London’s Tate Gallery

April 2017

  • leonora carrington at her home in mexico city in november 2000

    The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead review – an artist biography with an authentic touch

  • Spiky and uncompromising … Leonora Carrington in her studio in Mexico City in 2010.

    Book of the day
    The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead – review

March 2017

  • Leonora Carrington at her home in Mexico City, 2000.

    My ‘wild child’ cousin, the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington

    Throughout her childhood, Joanna Moorhead never heard a good word from her family about her cousin. When she went to Mexico she found out why she had abandoned them 60 years ealier

April 2016

  • Pages from Salvador Dalí’s unpublished diary

    Salvador Dalí diary up for sale in auction of surrealist artefacts

    Sotheby’s in Paris to sell private collection covering intertwined lives of some of most famous dada and surrealist artists

March 2016

  • Anthony Penrose, son of Lee Miller at Farley Farm in Sussex where much of her archive is kept

    Lee Miller, the mother I never knew

    As the son of model and photographer Lee Miller, Tony Penrose spent his childhood with famous artists, but had a difficult relationship with his alcoholic, depressive mother. Now, via her archive, he is finding out who she really was

May 2015

  • Peggy Guggenheim

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Why Peggy Guggenheim's heirs should keep their hands off her collection

    Despite what the great collector’s relatives are saying in a legal proceeding, her intimate museum in Venice is one of the wonders of the modern art world – and has in no way betrayed her joyous vision

October 2014

  • Frieze art fair sleeping guard

    Frieze: even sleeping security guards are art in a world of elaborate disguises

    Shows feature reimagining of Sigmund Freud’s study and Paris art collector’s flat in combination of old and new art

July 2014

  • Anselm Kiefer

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Why Germany would win the World Cup of modern art too

    Jonathan Jones: Beuys, Richter, Kiefer, Polke, Ernst … such a formidable lineup shows up British contemporary artists for the commercial, over-hyped and celebrity focused lightweights that they are

April 2014

  • Unlocking surrealism with Peter Capaldi - video

    Peter Capaldi: 'A lot of surrealist art is about sex' - video

  • Salvador Dali and Gala Eluard

    Watching boxing with Picasso and a ménage-à-trois at home: my life with the surrealist elite

December 2012

  • Picasso blind minotaur

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Winter solstice art: the dark night rises

  • Witches and Wicked Bodies

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Witches have always cast a wicked spell over art

October 2012

  • The Bowes Museum, County Durham

    The Northerner
    Good enough to eat? - pictures of food will be on display at the Bowes Museum

    Fortunately there's a recipe book instead of a catalogue for this exhibition, so everybody can have a go. Alan Sykes dons his apron

August 2012

  • Detail from poster for 1972 Olympics by David Hockney.

    Art and the hidden depths of the humble public pool

    The swimming pool is not just a place of pilgrimage for leading Olympians – it has also inspired some of the 20th century's most memorable art. Artist and novelist Leanne Shapton, herself a former competitive swimmer, chooses 10 of the greatest works of art based around the baths

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