Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Visually, this is a very simple work of art. There are just two elements, both clearly rendered: a pipe, and a caption that reads Ceci n’est pas une pipe (This is ...

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 ...

Even if you haven’t visited a museum in a few years, the odds are good that you’ve come across one of René Magritte’s conceptually winking artworks recently. They pop up everywhere, from dorm-room ...

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 ...

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, "Arlita / Chanson Lumineuse," sheet music cover (C. 1925). 13 1/4x10 1/2 inches, 33 1/2x26 3/4 cm. Many people are well aware of René Magritte’s Surrealist art with his erie figures, ...

The Mona Lisa is. Girl with a Pearl Earring is. Starry Night. You won't travel far down the list of art’s most recognizable images, however, before landing on Rene Magritte’s The Son of Man, on ...