For a curator, coming up with an original proposition for a museum show of an artist as revered and exhibited as Henri Matisse (1869-1954) can be quite the challenge. The solution devised by the ...

“An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, a prisoner of style, a prisoner of a reputation, a prisoner of success,” wrote Henri Matisse in his book Jazz (1947). It was with this book that the ...

It’s well known that Henri Matisse was a champion of decorative painting — or perhaps I should say, the decorative in painting. His admirers will have in mind the words from his “Notes of a Painter” ...

There were 125 impressions printed on velin de Rives paper and numbered 1 to 100 in Arabic numerals; 25 were reserved hors commerce and numbered I to XXV in Roman numerals.

Revisiting the landmark exhibition at MoMA, our critic finds clues to a new story line. By Blake Gopnik A flowered dress. A naked teenager. A Russian millionaire. A fancy room that hides secrets.

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Brazilian police say that one of the two suspects behind a brazen daylight robbery over the weekend in Sao Paulo remained at ...