A Wartime Matisse Full Of Pain And Beauty An exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago is the first to focus on the work of French painter Henri Matisse during World War I. Informed by war and ...

French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20 th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own ...

Modern art was born ugly. “It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly,” an American critic wrote, describing the 1910 Salon des Indépendents in Paris ...

Alexander Matisse's exhibit "New Ceramics," on view at the Memorial Art Gallery through June 8, poses its own quiet rebellion. His great-grandfather, Henri Matisse, and his grandfather, art dealer ...

Claire Wilcox, Valerie Steele, and Flavia Frigeri talk McQueen, Matisse, and the staging of hugely popular art and fashion exhibitions.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents “Matisse in the 1930s,” the most important American exhibition of the French artist in years.

Henri Matisse's "The Red Studio" (1911) during a press preview on April 27, 2022, at the The Museum ...More of Modern Art in New York. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY ...

The upheavals of modernism and industrialization shaped many of the year’s best art exhibitions, including shows on Matisse, Picasso and Turner. Skip to Main Content Explore Our Brands ...

If you want to pack some culture into your holiday plans, the Philadelphia Museum of Art currently has 29 exhibitions on display. Karen Rogers takes a look at three of them in this week's 6abc ...

Around 1940, when Matisse, the revolutionary French painter, was 71, his doctors found that he had an abdominal obstruction (a result of a hernia he’d had as a child) and a potentially cancerous ...

In the vibrant world of contemporary art, where creativity knows no bounds, Terry Hastings of The Hastings Gallery emerges as a visionary artist whose work transcends boundaries, blending influences ...

There's a little-known true story about Henri Matisse in which the French painter walks into a cafe and, when all the patrons stand up to applaud him, turns to his friend and says, "Oh, they must ...