“Surrealistic Creatures” opens at the Max Ernst Museum Brühl on October 3, 2021. Devoted to a fantastical world of animals and imagined creatures, the exhibition includes works by 70 international artists in all media from the birth of Surrealism throughout the 20th century. The show will feature the painting La Chienne et sa muse (The Dog and Her Muse) (1964) and remain on view through February 6, 2022.

“Jagna Ciuchta: The Fold of the Cosmic Belly,” will be on view at the Bétonsalon Center for Art and Research, Paris, September 17 - November 27, 2021.  Ciuchta describes her inspiration for the works she has drawn together in an interview with Cécile Archambeaud, Director of Centre of art image/imatge, Orthez, which hosted the first phase of the exhibition: "the ideas this title evokes are not new (or not all of them) in my exhi­bi­tions. They res­onate within all the other invited works. The belly is an energy centre and an inter­sec­tion of desires, sex­u­ality, breath, diges­tion, all kinds of plea­sures, mater­nity, emo­tions and bil­lions of bac­teria. It is a cave with its own ecosystem and art his­tory, a living con­tainer, a cosmos in its own right, a site of trans­for­ma­tion. I like the idea that the exhi­bi­tion is a belly. There are folds, places where iden­ti­ties overlap, improb­able con­ti­gu­i­ties, secrets, pas­sages that open onto other dimen­sions. The cosmic rein­forces our link to the Earth and to every­thing beyond us. But it also thrusts this title (and the exhi­bi­tion) into a fan­tas­tical fic­tion, which I hope, makes us smile.”  The exhibition includes the drawing Étude pour Cousins (1971).

“Modern Paris – The Swirl of the Arts” will open at the National Museum of Qatar in Doha on September 28, 2021.  On view through January 28, 2022, the exhibition will include the painting The Civilizing Influence (1944).

“Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art” is on view at the Toledo Museum of Art through September 5, 2021. With works such as Tempête en jaune (Tempest in Yellow) (1956), the show takes a broad inter-disciplinary, multicultural, and multimedia view of the supernatural and paranormal in artists' work from the early 19th century through the present. After travelling to the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky it will also be on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, which organized the exhibition.

"Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity" is on view at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice through September 26, 2021, after which it will travel to Museum Barberini, Potsdam. With paintings such as The Magic Flower Game (1941), the exhibition will explore the inspiration that many artists of the Surrealist movement drew from the symbolism of magic and the occult.

"Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser" at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, explores Lewis Carroll's classic text Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland from its origins through 157 years of adaptations and reinventions. This immersive and theatrical show includes the painting Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1943) and is on view through December 31, 2021.

“Dorothea Tanning: Printmaker” at Farleys House & Gallery, the historic home of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose in Muddles Green, East Sussex, has been postponed until Summer 2022. The exhibition will focus on the artist's graphic works, presented in a setting she knew well from numerous visits to see her friends the Penroses. Among the works will be the etching Nue Couchée (Reclining Nude) (1965).

Catriona McAra has published a chapter in Surrealist Women’s Writing: A Critical Exploration, edited by Anna Watz (Manchester University Press, 2021, pp. 210-224). In "Open Sesame: Dorothea Tanning’s Critical Writing," Dr. McAra examine Tanning's nonfiction writing within the context of both her broader literary and visual arts œuvre.

Adrian Dannatt has published Doomed and Famous: Selected Obituaries through Sequence Press (2021).  The collection includes his piece "Grande Dame in Eternal Exile: Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012)" that appeared on artcrtical.com (February 16, 2012).  

Victoria Carruthers has published Dorothea Tanning: Transformations, released by Lund Humphries. A definitive study of the artist's life and career, this monograph provides a framework within which to consider the range and depth of Tanning's work and thematic preoccupations. The book is extensively illustrated and features previously unpublished material from interviews which the author conducted with the artist between 2000 and 2009. The author discusses the book in an interview found here.

The editors of ARTnews have chosen Dorothea Tanning's memoir Between Lives: An Artist and Her World (W.W. Norton, New York, 2001) among "Essential Books: 12 Illuminating Artist’s Memoirs."

Max Ernst – D-paintings – Zeitreise der Liebe, an exhibition catalogue published by the Max Ernst Museum Brühl, celebrates a set of paintings created by Ernst from the time he first met Dorothea Tanning in 1942 until his death in 1976.  Every year Ernst gave Tanning a work for her birthday, almost always hiding the letter D for Dorothea.  Dr. Jürgen Pech examines all 36 "D-paintings" together with important contemporaneous works by Tanning and numerous photographs, letters, and other documents in a fully illustrated double biography that portrays their extraordinary love story.

Claire-Louise Bennett's Fish Out of Water is published by Juxta Press as one of its Words for Portraits series of essays and short stories by English- and Italian-language authors based a portrait of their choice. Drawing inspiration from the painting Self-Portrait (1944), the book is a meditation on the affinity the author finds with the artist in her life and work. The author can be heard speaking about the book in an interview What the Hell/Heaven Are We Doing? – Claire-Louise Bennett.

Craig Teicher writes of his personal experience with the artist and "The Later Work of Dorothea Tanning" for "The Daily" blog of The Paris Review.

We are looking for information about a number of paintings in the effort to fully document Dorothea Tanning's work for a catalogue raisonné. If you have seen any of these paintings, please contact us.

Concerning Wishes (1942)

Le Petit Marquis (1947)

Angel in Mauve and Orange (Study for Anges gardiens) (1947)

Les Infatigables (The Indefatigables) (1965)