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 ...

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 ...

René Magritte’s pipe is not a pipe. It’s a painting of a pipe, a representation rather than the real thing. You can’t stuff tobacco into it, as Magritte once said. That concept is critical toward ...

The Belgian leather goods house Delvaux celebrated the launch of a new partnership with the Magritte Foundation this week at its newly inaugurated flagship store, just across from the Plaza Hotel on ...

Queen Paola and King Albert of Belgium attend the inauguration of the Magritte Museum on May 20, 2009, in Brussels. “L’empire des lumières,” which depicts a home and surrounding trees in the darkness ...

Magritte did not always focus his artistic vision on the works that many people often associate him with: isolated male figures adorned with bowler hats, smoking pipes with ironic captions, or ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since the birth of the advertising industry in the late 19th century, there has been a great deal of overlap between publicity and fine art. Ad agencies must come up with eye-catching campaigns, ...