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Ceci n’est pas une rue. Brussels honours artist René Magritte with a new street name. Brussels has a found a new way to honour Belgian artist, René Magritte...  "If you could name a street in your hometown, what would you choose? Belgian citizens had the opportunity to mull just that question as part of an initiative to name 28 streets, squares, and walkways in the Belgian capital’s Tour & Taxis district*. The city crowdsourced the names as part of an ongoing regeneration project in the Tour & Taxis district—a formerly industrial area now set to become one of the city’s cultural and residential meccas. After receiving nearly 1,400 suggestions from the public, the final list was chosen by a jury of city officials, historians, and the site’s property developer, Extena...""[ read more on Quartz ]. *The district is named after the famous Thurn and Taxis, a German noble family that was a key player in European postal services until the fall of the Holy Roman...

René Magritte: The Fifth Season The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) May 19–October 28, 2018 René Magritte: The Fifth Season begins on the heels of Magritte's Surrealist period, and focuses on the latter half of the artist's career, from 1943 to 1967, a period of remarkable transformation for the artist. Made possible through loans from collections in Asia, Europe, North America and South America, the exhibit encompasses 70 works, 20 of which are being shown for the first time in the USA. It is the most complete presentation of Magritte’s late work mounted since the artist’s death in 1967. The exhibit highlights works from a number of distinct themes, with the rooms organized sequentially. Sunlit Surrealism and the Vache Period Les Adieux (1943), an example of one of Magritte's 'sunlit surrealist' works Creative Commons image 09106995@N03 on Flickr  In 1943, Magritte's work made a surprising shift, rebelling perhaps against war a...