Three artists who in several methods connect with the Surrealist motion are the topic of this week’s podcast. On the Museum of Fashionable Artwork in New York, the primary main US survey of the total profession of Marcel Duchamp since 1973 opens this weekend, earlier than travelling later within the yr to Philadelphia. Ben Luke talks to its curators at MoMA, Ann Temkin and Michelle Kuo.
Dorothea Tanning, Max in a Blue Boat (1947)
© Dorothea TANNING/ADGAP, Paris and DACS, London, 2025
A brand new e-book, Dorothea Tanning: A Surrealist World, exploring the extraordinary life and work of the Surrealist artist, is revealed this week by Yale College Press and Ben speaks to its creator, Alyce Mahon.
Leonora Carrington, Down Under (1940)
© 2026 Property of Leonora Carrington / ARS, NY and DACS, London.
And this episode’s Work of the Week is Down Under (1940), a portray by one other of the nice girls artists of Surrealism, the British Mexican painter Leonora Carrington. It was made whereas she was hospitalised in Santander in Spain within the early levels of the Second World Battle, earlier than her pivotal journey to Latin America. The image is a part of an exhibition on the Freud Museum in London, The Symptomatic Surreal, which additionally options drawings from Carrington’s sketchbooks. We converse to Vanessa Boni, the curator of particular tasks on the museum, in regards to the work and the present.
