One summer’s day in 1936, a crowd piled into a Mayfair gallery to hear Salvador Dalí give a lecture at the International Surrealist Exhibition. What happened next, as the Spanish master stood up to ...

Ithell Colquhoun, Genius of the Fern Loved Gully, Amy Hale. Strange Attractor Press. Amy Hale has done an excellent job of writing a fascinating book which is well worth the investment of time and ...

Since her death, Ithell Colquhoun (1906-88) has been better known as an occultist than an artist. Now, her reputation as a leading figure of British Surrealism is being restored, in an exhibition ...

It’s an odd pairing: Stewart Lee, the acerbic award-winning stand-up comedian and co-writer of Jerry Springer: the Opera, and Ithell Colquhoun, the Surrealist painter, writer and occultist, who died ...

Just how much of a Pop artist was Keiichi Tanaami? The answer may depend on how you define the movement, which mutated as it traversed the Pacific and made its way to postwar Japan.

The juxtaposition isn’t obvious but neither is it forced: although it’s unlikely they ever met, the 20th-century British artists Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun were born only a year apart, to upper ...

Colquhoun s unique artistic vision shines through like at no time in recent history Art UK Colquhoun s time travelling survey of Cornwall s culture and history brings ghosts and dead landscapes to ...

Featuring new essays by established and emerging scholars, Intersections: Women artists/surrealism/modernism redefines conventional surrealist and modernist canons by focusing critical attention on ...

Saturated with innuendo: detail from Edward Burra’s John Deth (Hommage to Conrad Aiken), 1931 - The estate of Edward Burra, courtesy Lefevre Fine Art Tate Britain’s latest offer? Two exhibitions for ...