Art
Dorothea Tanning Explored New Worlds Through Collage
Tanning’s practice shows that there is always another door to open, a new world to explore, and that art offers us another possible existence.
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Transformation and Dreams in Dorothea Tanning's Later Work
As Tanning took up midcentury painterly abstraction, key philosophical themes from her earlier phantasmal narrative paintings undergo transformations and reiterations.
Books
New Art Books for the New Season
An autumnal offering of Artemisia Gentileschi, Dorothea Tanning, Henri Matisse, and Guston galore, among much, much else.
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A Pilgrimage to Dorothea Tanning’s Arizona Studio
A recent exhibition of this art historical figure at the Reina Sofia is amplified by a visit to where she worked.
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Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist Depictions of Women's Pain
Overshadowed in her lifetime by her famous husband, Max Ernst, the American painter gets a major retrospective in Madrid.