Reporting from NEW YORK — When Henri Matisse (1869-1954) finished his breakthrough painting “The Joy of Life,” he was 36. A new century was just getting underway, and he flung open a door to an ...

NEW YORK – Some art exhibitions shoot across the cultural season like comets. They ravish the eye; they don't come around very often; and they're very much worth a stretch to see in person. The Museum ...

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In the summer of 1994 a group of 32 to 35 late Matisse cutouts will come to the Baltimore Museum of Art for 2 1/2 months. The cutouts will come from the Pompidou Center in Paris in exchange for the ...

The Museum of Modern Art presents Matisse’s Cut-Outs: A Celebration at the Museum of Modern Art from November 9, 2024 through January 20, 2025. Coinciding with the holiday season, The Museum of Modern ...

We urged you to see it when it opened in October, but if you've been too busy complaining about the weather (understandable), let this be our last plea: Go see Matisse: The Cut-Outs at the Museum of ...

A blockbuster Matisse exhibition disproving the myth that his famous cut-outs could be made by a child has broken all Tate records, eclipsing Damien Hirst to become the most popular show in its ...

Reporting from NEW YORK — At the end of World War II, when Europe was recovering from the onslaught, the great French artist Henri Matisse was recovering from personal battles. Matisse, then in his ...

From the early 1940s onwards, French painter Henri Matisse began to develop a technique that he had experimented with earlier in his life, taking pieces of colour paper and cutting into them to make ...