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 ...

The much-heralded exhibition of Matisse cut-outs currently at the Museum of Modern Art was previously at the Tate Modern, with a few less items than here, but it broke all attendance records and was ...

Here's a pop quiz: What kind of sane person forgoes a sweet hibernation and willingly ventures to Midtown Manhattan—the heart of the American nightmare—after 2 o'clock in the morning on a frigid ...

The Fondation Beyeler museum on the outskirts of Basel has brought together 72 works by the French artist, who died in 1954 aged 84. They include paintings, sculptures and cut-out paper collages from ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. At times, it is easy to forget that Henri ...

Scissors, paper, pins - these were all it took for Henri Matisse, in the last years of his life, often bedridden and feeling he was living on borrowed time, to create the works that now fill galleries ...

An X-ray diffraction of Henri Matisse's "Blue Nude II," at the Pompidou Center, Paris, February 19, 2025. HERVÉ VÉRONÈSE Renzo Piano has never been a man of systems, but he has always liked coherence.