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 ...

What started as a mild dislike for René Magritte quickly became admiration. Once German artist Raphaëlle Martin started to animate the Surrealist Belgian’s paintings, he saw how completely dynamic ...

René Magritte's iconic painting, "Empire of Light," shattered auction records, selling for over $121 million. The sale highlighted a surge in the art market, with Magritte joining the ranks of artists ...

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.

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 ...

A rare cast of the large bronze sculpture of that name created by the surrealist artist Rene Magritte has been donated to the museum by trustee Sylvia de Cuevas, the museum announced Thursday in a ...

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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 ...

Move over, Picasso, van Gogh and Warhol. With an inscrutable painting, the Belgian painter breaks a nine-figure threshold at Christie’s fall auction. By Scott Reyburn After the U.S. election, ...