In 1981, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited for a massive Central Park concert. 500,000 people showed up, and a live album taped at the show turned out to be a huge hit. Shortly afterward, Simon ...

This insightful biography of the surrealist painter contends that to his peers he was a hero and outsider who resisted symbolic readings of his art Unlike his surrealist contemporaries, René Magritte ...

The underlying image in René Magritte's "La cinquième saison" (1943) (photo courtesy Royal Museum of Fine Arts) A team of researchers has discovered the face of a woman peering out from beneath ...

Nonetheless, the surrealist fascination with what lay beneath the surface of social convention, of reason, indeed of the self, could not have been so clearly articulated if that surface had not ...

René Magritte presented himself as the 'ordinary man in the bowler hat, suit and tie' who happened to paint extraordinary pictures. James Hall considers how his work influenced later generations René ...

And nowhere was that serious joking more evident than in hundreds of photographs and a suite of amateur films that he and his close friends created in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. These glimpses into a ...

Never mind Tracey Emin’s drunkenness, Damien Hirst’s diamond skulls or Grayson Perry’s skirts: if you want a magnificent example of artistic perversity, take a look at Magritte. Or rather, at his work ...

Paul Simon adds lush orchestral layers to “Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War” in a new version of the 1983 track. New York chamber ensemble yMusic offers textural elegance to ...