Matisse’s friends were dying in the trenches when he met a new model. “Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things,” wrote the poet Robert Browning. “The honest thief, the tender murderer, the ...

In a new exhibition, the Museum of Modern Art re-stages the studio inside the museum alongside the 1911 painting. Henri Matisse, The Red Studio(1911). Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Artists follow varied career paths. Some maintain strong, steady production throughout their lifetimes. Some fade over time. Some are one-hit wonders who score success with one body of work that they ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

After mounting definitive retrospectives of Pablo Picasso in 1980 and Henri Matisse in 1992, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with London’s Tate Modern and Paris’s Musée Picasso and ...

Once used as fighting words during the recent PMA strike, “Matisse in the 1930s” opens, tracing a transformative decade in the life of Henri Matisse. File photo: Philadelphia Museum of Arts is opening ...

AROUND 1913 Henri Matisse seemed to be at the top of his game. In his mid-40s he was, at last, an international star, despite American critics who pronounced his new brand of modernism coarse or ...

As I approach the first anniversary in my current apartment, I’ve begun to view the spare white walls of my bedroom more critically. Currently, I’ve only managed to hang two prints: a vintage Fiorucci ...

In 2003, the Museum of Modern Art put on an important show comparing Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, maybe the two greatest European painters of the 20th century. They were friends and rivals; they ...