Paris exhibition celebrates global spread of surrealism
Pompidou Centre show will move on to Madrid, Hamburg and Philadelphia, changing from city to city
July 2023
Hidden meaning of Magritte uncovered as new image is found under painting
Secret portrait of woman likely to be wife of Belgian surrealist found during examination of artist’s work
July 2022
London exhibition to examine surrealism’s influence on design
Design Museum show to look at how movement revolutionised arts from furniture to fashion
February 2022
Surrealism Beyond Borders review – A raging sea of glorious strangeness
Forget Dalí and Magritte. This sprawling survey captures the extraordinary scope of a global artistic explosion, from fantastical feminists to black power activists to Vodou painter priests
January 2022
Ali to Andy W: Steve Schapiro’s life in photography – in pictures
Magritte masterpiece expected to sell for record £45m at auction
November 2021
Book of the day
Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev review – a man of mystery
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
October 2021
How Dalí’s ‘lips’ sofa began life … on the back of an envelope
Newly opened archive of art patron’s papers reveals a previously unseen sketch for the surrealist work
November 2020
Madrid surrealism show offers escape from pandemic reality
Exhibition explores how surrealist movement influenced culture and design in 20th century
May 2020
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Surrealist games for lockdown and a Magritte masterpiece – the week in art
Tap into your unconscious with Tarot, check out feudal chess or gaze into Magritte’s magic mirror – all in your weekly dispatch
August 2018
Ceci n’est pas une rue: Brussels to adopt whimsical new street names
Artist René Magritte, frites and famous women have inspired entries to a competition to rename streets and squares in Brussels
April 2018
Anatomy of an artwork
René Magritte’s Le Genre Nocturne: sum total of our own thoughts
The Belgian surrealist paints a mysterious headless, ashen woman with shadows and suggestive cracks
August 2017
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A drop-dead Da Vinci and Magritte's stash of snaps – the week in art
René Magritte: 130 photos featured in world-first exhibition – in pictures
December 2016
AS Byatt: Beatrix Potter and the beginnings of my need to be a writer
This year’s Erasmus prize winner celebrates the transcendent use of language by Beatrix Potter, Magritte and Shakespeare
October 2016
Surrealist classics are not for the market
Letters: For a ‘large group of paintings’ by Tchelitchew to be included in the auction is deeply worrying
September 2016
Jonathan Jones on art
This is not an article: why René Magritte is a timeless genius
Jonathan Jones
Missing piece of lost Magritte painting is discovered in Norwich
April 2016
Salvador Dalí diary up for sale in auction of surrealist artefacts
Sotheby’s in Paris to sell private collection covering intertwined lives of some of most famous dada and surrealist artists
February 2016
The 10 best ...
The 10 best love paintings
In honour of Valentine’s Day, cast your adoring eyes over the sweetest representations of romance on canvas
