From Paris to Mexico, Leonora Carrington’s extraordinary life is retold with intelligence and restraint, though not quite enough imagination
At the age of 20, debutante Leonora Carrington ran away fro…
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Zurbarán review – ecstatic visions, primitive surrealism … and the finest loincloths ever painted ⊕⊕
National Gallery, London
The 17th-century Spanish master painted with a supernatural intensity that will hit you just as hard as it did his original viewers
The word “visionary” is done to death but t…
49 days ago
This Is Not a Murder Mystery: cosy-crime meets art in an irresistibly surreal Belgian drama ⊕⊕
Famous artists including Magritte are suspects in this glossy, grisly whodunnit – and it’s loads of fun
I don’t know about art, but I know what I like: cosy crime. I’m excited by Flemish series This I…
80 days ago
Schiaparelli review – it’s cocktail o’clock with fashion’s surreal goddess who out-lobstered Dalí and turned a polar bear pink ⊕
V&A South Kensington, London
The Italian designer loved to shock and this dazzling show is like sashaying through a party in 1930s Paris with Schiap and her darling friends Cocteau and Dalí
Naked merma…
4 months ago
Masterpiece, fridge magnet, phone case … opera: how Hokusai’s The Great Wave hit the stage ⊕⊕
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He survived a stroke, a lightning strike, a fire – and created one of the world’s most recognisable images. Now the Japanese artist’s ‘wild, fascinating’ life has inspired an opera
Opera has inspired …
5 months ago
‘Lunch could last all day – and night’: inside Coco Chanel’s sun-kissed sanctum for art’s superstars ⊕
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The French fashion designer’s lavish Mediterranean villa was frequented by everyone from Dalí to Garbo to Stravinsky to Churchill. It has now been lovingly restored – with a thrillingly bolstered lib…
7 months ago
From ‘mood hoovers’ to ‘energy vampires’ - here’s why negative friends are good for you | Emma Beddington ⊕⊕
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Jamie Oliver says he’s only hanging out with ‘lovely people’ in his 50s. But sometimes we all need an Eeyore around
I’m hungry for wisdom from others on dealing with midlife challenges, such as exist…
Lost Salvador Dalí painting bought for £150 sold at auction for £47,700 ⊕
Illustration of ‘old sultan’ by surrealist artist found at a house clearance sale by Cambridge antiques dealer
To the untrained eye, it looks more like an alien has landed on Chewbacca’s head than a m…
8 months ago
Audrey Hepburn to Salvador Dalí: Cecil Beaton’s bright young things – in pictures ⊕
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A new exhibition, featuring images of Hollywood stars and war photography, shows why the ‘King of Vogue’ was one of the visionary forces of the British 20th century
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Animals keep evolving into anteaters. Could this be the future of humanity? | Helen Pilcher ○
Even if we don’t develop long sticky tongues and a taste for termites, we can still learn a lot from these remarkable creatures
Who doesn’t love an anteater? I mean, apart from ants, obviously. With t…