Andre Breton

Over more than a century, Dorothea Tanning collided and consorted with artistic titans of the 20th century who included Pablo Picasso, John Cage and Joseph Cornell. She designed sets for George Balanchine ballets, played romantic matchmaker for poet Andre...

Reporting from Mexico City -- She painted eerie rituals with cloaked figures in forests, dancing deer with trees growing from their backs, and breathing buildings that shot planets and stars. Leonora Carrington, a leading figure of the Surrealist...

Leah Ollman reviews Hans Bellmer's prints at Galerie Anais...

It's the end of an era. Below you'll find this week's "Orientation: Ryan Station: podcast, and it'll be the last time we'll be discussing "Lost." Unless, of course, Zap2it.com's "Lost" blogger Ryan McGee and I feel the need to talk about the show in-depth...

The engine of the 2004 Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG produces 516 pound-feet of torque between 2,650 and 4,500 rpm. For a lot of people, this sentence means nothing. What, after all, is torque? What is a pound-foot, and is 516 of them a good thing or bad? "Pound-...

Joe Day and Nina Hachigian's ultra-contemporary Silver Lake house, built primarily with industrial materials used in airports, looks down on the lights of Los Feliz and Hollywood like a control tower. An electronic sign facing the street displays...