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 ...

Christie's has nabbed a Surrealism-heavy estate. Plus, Qatar accused of using South Africa's Venice Biennale pavilion as a ...

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 ...

Like the indelible dreams that the movement’s artists displayed on canvas, Surrealism refuses to die. Launched nearly a century ago, with its techniques long absorbed by mainstream media and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo released by Christie’s auction house on Saturday Feb. 3, 2024, shows “L’ami intime” (The Intimate Friend) by surrealist ...

BASEL, Switzerland — Visitors who remember the “Keystone Kops” are sure to be baffled when they see the Rene Magritte painting for the first time: The image of a woman’s nightgown hanging alone in a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. This article is more than 7 years old. The Cripple is a very ...

Any parent could tell you that. The things they say and do can be completely off the wall and reflect a different reality than the one that we experience — and then we train it out of them, and wonder ...

WHEN René Magritte was 13 years old, his mother drowned herself in a local river. When the body was recovered her face was found to be covered with her nightdress. No one knew whether she had ...

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 ...

Like the indelible dreams that the movement’s artists displayed on canvas, surrealism refuses to die. Launched nearly a century ago, with its techniques long absorbed by mainstream media and ...