The French painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is one of the most beloved and frequently exhibited artists of the modern era. The short-lived Fauvism movement of which Matisse was a part believed that ...

It is one of the landmark paintings of the early 20th century: Henri Matisse's "The Red Studio," his depiction of his workroom filled with paintings and sculptures, even a plate, all of his own making ...

A spate of 100-plus temperatures over the summer should have been sufficient proof that we were passing through the dog days. But, ever the skeptic, I refused to believe it until I saw the Matisse ...

If you cut it, they will come. Apparently that’s the Museum of Modern Art’s new motto. Its latest exhibit, “Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,” closes at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 10. But before that, ...

On a recent trip to New York and its summer environs, I was struck by what was in some ways a small exhibition centered on just one painting, quite well known, that is more than 110 years old and that ...

“I like it, but I don’t quite understand it,” Henri Matisse told a journalist visiting his studio in 1911. Matisse was referring to a painting he’d recently made of his studio space, a room filled ...

Francine Stock interviewing Nicholas Serota in Exhibition On Screen’s ‘Matisse: From Tate Modern and MoMA’ (all images courtesy Arts Alliance) Installation view of Matisse’s “Christmas Eve” (1952), ...

The objects in the painting are brought together in a spectacular show at the Museum of Modern Art. It’s a marvel of detective work by the curators. By Roberta Smith The Museum of Modern Art’s latest ...

Henri Matisse’s interior “The Red Studio” (1911), at roughly 6 feet tall by 7 feet wide, is monumental yet intimate—somewhere between picture and picture window. The painting’s primary color is a ...

Henri Matisse. The Red Studio. 1911. Oil on canvas, 71 1/4″ x 7′ 2 1/4″ (181 x 219.1 cm). Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund, the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blue figures swim around walls, dancers prance in a circle and flowers sprout on a huge canvas in an exhibition of the cut-out works of French artist Henri Matisse that opens next ...