Old Masters

René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle

René Magritte’s genius was to subvert our assumptions and even undermine art itself, while bringing joy and delight.

Contemporary ceramic artists combine craft tradition with boundary-pushing creativity.

The friendship of Dalí and Duchamp is explored in an exhibition at the Dalí Museum in Florida.

A body of William Eggleston’s influential color photography goes on view at the Met.

Precisionism, a style of art that embraced the mechanical, flourished in 1920s and ’30s America.

Jasper Johns’ subtle, enigmatic art has influenced many but can be practiced by no one but its creator.

An exhibition in Fort Worth, Tex., explores four European-born artists who made their careers in America.

A new exhibition shows the full evolution of a thoroughly American artist.

In Napoleon’s palaces and beyond, aesthetics served politics but also achieved greatness.