Rooting for Spain now, I commend Belgium for memorializing Magritte on their jerseys but conjecture that the execution led to their demise. The significance of La Voix des airs

 René Magritte, La Voix des airs, 1931, oil on canvas, 72.7 x 54.2 cm

is specifically the detachment of the horse bells from the horses into the sky above the landscape grid.  To reattach the bells to the body is to dress your side as horses, and you can't beat the Spaniards playing polo.  Also writing Ceci n’est pas un maillot on the jerseys abandons La Trahison des images' commentary on representation by putting the phrase on an existing jersey and not a picture of the jersey, and you can't beat the Spaniards by confusing ontology and semiotics.

A source familiar with Belgian fashion design has revealed to Piri' Miri Muli' the artworks the next three Belgian World Cup teams will feature on their jerseys:

2030:

James Ensor, Demons Taunting Me, 1895, etching, 11.8 x 15.8 cm., Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent

2034:

Paul Delvaux, La Ville lunaire, 1944, oil on canvas, 56 ¼ x 78 ¾ in.

 

2038:

Marcel Broodthaers, Le Problème noir en Belgique, 1964, mixed media, 19 × 15 3/8 in., NY MoMA

Ebo Taylor 1936 - 2026

 

Sad to hear the news of the closing of Lyles & King, one of my favorite galleries, frequently cited here..

Rosa Loy, My Dear Chimera, 2020, Casein on canvas, 43 x 35 in.

Farley Aguilar, The Meal, 2017, Oil on canvas, 57 x 80 inches

Jessie Makinson, The Chief Leaf, 2018, oil on canvas, 74 x 65 in.

 

Ophelia Arc, reaD into a loWly Key, (i hope you are doing well), 2025, mixed media, frame 20 x 16 1/2 x 4 inches

 I'd thought Belgium had used all their substitutions

 

René Magritte, The Month of the Grape Harvest, 1959, oil on canvas, 130 x 160 cm