Surrealist painter René Magritte created some of the most instantly recognizable images of the 20th century. Using appropriated motifs and weaving them into his paintings, Magritte created timeless ...

René Magritte, “Forethought” (1943), oil on canvas, Koons Collection (© Charly Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, all images courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) In ...

It’s one of Modern art’s most famous images: a pipe, above the words “Ceci n’est pas une pipe,” or “This is not a pipe,” and it’s called The Treachery of Images (1929). But what you may not know is ...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is presenting the first major exhibition to fully explore the impact of Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte's work on U.S. and European artists of the postwar ...

On the morning of May 19, minutes after SFMOMA’s René Magritte exhibit opened for a member preview, so many people flooded the fourth-floor entrance that a line formed. The newly arriving members ...

A René Magritte painting depicting an eerily lit streetscape sold for more than $121 million at a Christie’s auction in New York on Tuesday –– surpassing its $95 million estimate and smashing the ...

Long before face filters and dancing hot dogs could alter the way we see the world and ourselves, there was already a group of people experimenting with the notion of the "real": surrealist artists.

Shown with their Magritte-inspired artwork are, sitting from left: Mateo Zangardi, Robert Prunka, Anthonella Pero, Layla Adams, and Jacob Stewart. Standing: John DeCavage, Easton Paul, Charlotte ...

The Surrealists talked a good picture, and René Magritte was more a visual punster than a virtuoso painter. His art, Alex Danchev writes in this thoroughly and gruesomely entertaining biography, is “a ...

The Art Institute of Chicago's new exhibition spins everyday objects into dream-like works of art. "Magritte, The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938," a showcase of works by the late Belgian ...