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MAGRITTE A Life By Alex Danchev with Sarah Whitfield. Even people who do not recognize the name René Magritte are likely to recognize his bowler-hatted man, that solitary wanderer in a dark ...
René Magritte loved tales of mystery, and the best approach to understanding the iconic artist’s life is as a mystery. So argues an insightful and broad-reaching new biography by the late Alex ...
Some think that this mysterious Magritte painting is the beginning of modern art. It inspires a lot more questions than you might think, writes Cath Pound. René Magritte’s The Treachery of ...
At "Edible Magritte," a dinner-party event coinciding with the Museum of Modern Art's Magritte exhibition, the conventions of mealtime commingling are thrown into high relief.
Born in 1898, René Magritte enjoyed an illustrious five-decade career, painting until his death aged just 68 in the late 1960s. He is one of the world’s most famous Surrealists, instantly ...
Art History Nothing Is What It Seems in Magritte’s Most Iconic Artwork. We dove into the visual riddle that is René Magritte's 'The Treachery of Images'—art history's most infamous pipe.
80-Year-Old Mystery Cracked As Final Missing Piece Of Magritte Painting Found : The Two-Way The fourth and final portion of a painting cut up in 1932 was revealed in Belgium underneath another ...