Atelier Georges Visat, Paris, pub. René Magritte's "Untitled (Man with a bowler hat)" (1968) presents one of the artist's most iconic images in a beautiful etching. Rather than portraying the man ...
In this film, Will Young travels to Magritte's native Belgium to find out more about the man whose trademark was a bowler hat and whose apparently conventional exterior concealed the mind of a ...
Artists have long had a reputation as outsiders whose actions and attitudes often push them beyond the bounds of polite society: radicals, drunks, revolutionaries, womanizers, lunatics. So what kind ...
It is sometimes said that Surrealist paintings are disappointing up close; perhaps we see them so often in reproduction that by the time we see the real ones in a museum they’ve lost some of their ...
Wonderful and amazing is the way to describe "Rene Magritte: The Fifth Season," a fab new show at SFMOMA that kicks off the summer art season with panache. The museum is the sole venue for an ...