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 ...

It is easy to regard René Magritte as a much better image-maker and inventor of visual and verbal conundrums than he was a painter. Certainly, many of his works look better in reproduction than they ...

Golconde, (1953) René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle is on at Tate Liverpool until 16 October Picture: Houston, The Menil Collection. ..(c) Phototh que R. Magritte Credit: Houston, The Menil ...

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 ...

The world's biggest collection of works by the Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte opens this week in his home city Brussels. More than 40 years after his death, Magritte remains one of the most ...

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, ...

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 ...

A painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte commissioned in 1965 by his country's national airline, Sabena, has proved of real benefit to the now bankrupt company's 12,000 former employees. The ...