The latest canvas to surface was consigned by Louise Riggio, the widow of Len Riggio, the founder of Barnes and Noble and longtime chairman of the Dia Art Foundation, who died last year, aged 83.

'The Castle of the Pyrenees,' which was donated to the museum in the 1980s, was damaged by a young boy who idly pierced the ...

In October, 1924, André Breton published the Surrealist Manifesto in Paris, demanding a break from the conformities of the past and arguing for an art that pulled liberally from Freud, Dadaism, and ...

A young museum visitor punctured one of Magritte's most iconic Surrealist canvases with a pinecone before a guard could ...

The breadth of Magritte’s work allows a curator—and reviewer—to make comparison with an almost unlimited roster of contemporary artists. I have mentioned Rosler, whose inclusion would have opened up ...

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 ...

Belgian surrealist René Magritte’s Le seize septembre, 1957, soared past a high estimate of $10 million to land on a final price, with fees, of $19.6 million at Christie’s impressionist and modern art ...

The fourth and final portion of a painting cut up in 1932 was revealed in Belgium underneath another work by the surrealist artist. An enigma that has beguiled art enthusiasts for more than eight ...

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 ...

Step right up, step right up! For just an extra $8 on top of your $25 museum ticket, you too can secure timed entry to the René Magritte exhibition The Fifth Season! Wind your way in line through a ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Deborah Solomon MAGRITTE A Life By Alex Danchev with Sarah Whitfield Even people who do not ...