Salvador Dalí’s lobster telephone and Mae West lips sofa to be sold at auction

Renowned surrealist artworks among hundreds of objects from Edward James foundation to be sold by Christie’s

Mark Wallinger at the Freud Museum review – mirror mirror on the ceiling

Freud Museum, London
The British artist transforms Sigmund Freud’s study into a Dalí-inspired hall of mirrors for a meta-surrealist look at art, psychoanalysis and self-obsession

Dalí in a diving helmet: how the Spaniard almost suffocated bringing surrealism to Britain

Eighty years ago, as Dylan Thomas served boiled string, Salvador Dalí put on a diving suit, grabbed a billiard cue – and changed British art for ever. Can new exhibition Surreal Encounters recapture that spirit?

A cultural stop on Venice’s Grand Canal. For Your Eyes Only.

For Your Eyes Only: A Private Collection, from Mannerism to Surrealism. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, one of the world’s most reputable museums for 20th Century European and American art, extends its collection by offering “For Your Eyes Only: A Private Collection, from Mannerism to Surrealism“. This summer exhibition housed in its founder’s former home on … Read more

The history of Miss Dior. The exhibition

“I create so that each and every woman is the most beautiful“. Christian Dior. ‘Miss Dior’ exhibition opening – Grand Palais, Paris.       Miss Dior exhibition opened its doors in the Galerie Courbe at le Grand Palais in Paris. Redecorated for the occasion in Dior’s emblematic gray and white colors, the space welcomed … Read more

Christian Lacroix for Schiaparelli revival

For the relaunched of the Schiaparelli couture house, 61-year-old French designer Christian Lacroix, a 90s fashion darling, returns to the Paris Fashion Week with 15 reinterpretations of Schiaparelli designs. Christian Lacroix brings an homage to Schiaparelli which will go on display in her original salon at 21 Place Vendôme. Famed for her collaborations with Salvador … Read more