“René Magritte: The Phantom Landscape,” at New York’s Luxembourg + Co. through July 12, asks us to put aside pipes, bowler hats, green apples, and clouds when we think of the Belgian ...

The men, wearing overcoats and a bowler hats, hover in the air as if they are neither falling nor flying. Golconda is one of 170 paintings with titles suggested to Magritte by his friend, the ...

Underneath, she wore a floor-length skirt suit. On top of her head, Monáe sported a Magritte-style bowler hat. Attached to the brim was a monocle that extended in front of her left eye.

What’s black, white, and red all over? Janelle Monáe at the 2025 Met Gala. Swathed in Thom Browne, the Grammy-winning artist brought a masterclass in Black dandyism to the Met Gala red carpet ...

The man behind that floating apple and beneath that bowler hat is none other than Magritte. If you look closely, you can see his eyes peeking out between the apple and its leaves. 2.

In the 1920s, the bowler hat was ubiquitous and Magritte used the motif to represent the everyman; by the 1950s, the bowler hat had become less common and Magritte played with the idea that he was the ...

A timeless figure Though perhaps best known for his surrealist depictions of bowler hat-wearing men, Magritte spent a period of 15 years exploring the fleeting transition from day to night in ...

Though perhaps best known for his surrealist depictions of bowler hat-wearing men, Magritte spent a period of 15 years exploring the fleeting transition from day to night in landscape painting.

Magritte, who lived from 1898 to 1967, is known for his dreamlike takes on everyday objects, from smoking pipes to green apples to bowler hats.