Over more than a century, Dorothea Tanning collided and consorted with artistic titans of the 20th century, including Pablo Picasso, John Cage and Joseph Cornell. She designed sets for George ...

Dorothea Tanning is known as one of the great Surrealists, but a new show at New York’s Kasmin Gallery reveals a very different side of the artist. In the artist’s biggest U.S. show in decades, the ...

“I bought my first Dorothea Tanning as a gallerist about 21 years ago,” art dealer Wendi Norris said in a recent interview. “So it’s been a while.” Norris, whose gallery is in San Francisco, ...

Dorothea Tanning, Orphans, (1963). Courtesy of the Dorothea Tanning Foundation. It has often been said that Dorothea Tanning had two careers in her exceptionally long life: first as a visual artist, ...

When American artist Dorothea Tanning painted “Birthday” in 1942, she announced her arrival – an artistic birth, as she later described it – into the surrealist movement. Surrealism is an avant-garde ...

Having outlived all of her contemporaries—including her late husband, the Dadaist and Surrealist painter Max Ernst—New York City-based artist, sculptor and writer Dorothea Tanning is 100 years old ...

Introduction -- Refashioning Surrealism -- Screening female desire -- Miseducated girls -- Aux environs de Paris and historical memory -- Sculpture and narrative: Body hauntings -- No exit: Tanning's ...

A young woman in a loose, light-colored garment that could be an oversized T-shirt or a casual nightgown presses a foot and hand up against a door, her gaze obscured by the outstretched arm, as her ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Surrealism is an avant-garde art and literary movement that began in Paris in the ...