Video: Leonora Carrington: Britain's lost surrealist

Throughout her childhood, Joanna Moorhead never heard a good word from her family about her cousin. When she went to Mexico she found out why she had abandoned them 60 years ealier

The great British artist’s home in Mexico has been turned into a wonderful museum, full of her sculptures, books, diaries and unsmoked cigarettes. Our writer, Carrington’s cousin, takes an emotional tour

Ahead of the Tate Liverpool exhibition, Chloe Aridjis is inspired by Carrington’s oracular animal hybrids, her great natural and mythical worlds – and her fierce authenticity

She ran off with Max Ernst, drank with the surrealists – and kept her tea under lock and key. Charlotte Higgins on the dazzling life and art of Leonora Carrington

Lancashire-born artist, a painter associated with host of 2oth century greats, dies in Mexico hospital

To say that surrealism changed the way we look at art is to do it a disservice: it literally changed our definition of what is real, altering forever the way we talk and think about life. And the two things it hit hardest were humour and sex. Mixing the high with the trashy and the beautiful with the vile, it turned sexual obsession into a big joke and injected a dose of old-fashioned depravity and sleaziness into modern art. Jonathan Jones gives three cheers for the furtive, the fruity and the weird.

This sui generis docu-portrait offers a behind the scenes look at the art world, as novelist Chloe Aridjis curates a retrospective of the surrealist

One of several books published to mark the centenary of the artist and writer, this biography is also a spirited family memoir