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The mirror is a symbol rooted in the history of art and culture. Émilie Möri, a French-Swiss photographer, works in this tradition.

Many of the greatest art pieces in the history of art were in some form influenced by another great art piece, while that other art piece was influenced by yet another. You get the point: art influences art, art creates more art. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, consider these famous

Self-taught photographer Giorgia Bellotti reinterprets René Magritte’s thought-provoking imagery for a 21st century audience.

THESE THINGS I HOLD to be self-evident: that pictures have frames: that art has a history—more than one in fact; that you can paint from a model; that things sometimes look alike; that I shall be talking about a painter named René Magritte. My theme (his theme) will be the doubts that hover in the atmosphere like old smells around any piece of self-evidence. René Magritte, the artist in dark overcoat and derby, presents credentials as a wallpaper painter, speculative semanticist, and frame-up operator. Here’s what he does. He takes the entire Western tradition of optical likeness, perfec...

A superb new biography illuminates the life and art of a leading Surrealist. "Magritte: A Life" by Alex Danchev; Pantheon (480 pages, $45) ——— Walk into the Magritte gallery in