The Smart About Art series continues with Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors by Jane O'Connor, illus. by Jessie Hartland. Presented and organized in the style of a grade-school report (and written ...

"I’m sorry. The lecture is completely sold out," a museum representative said. "Sold out! I thought the event was free!" a disappointed prospective attendee responded. Last Thursday, at the Harvard ...

Reporting from NEW YORK — At the end of World War II, when Europe was recovering from the onslaught, the great French artist Henri Matisse was recovering from personal battles. Matisse, then in his ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In old age in the 1940s, as he descended into ill health, Matisse began ...

The painter Henri Matisse made his name by putting brush to canvas. And when chronic illness made painting difficult, he made his mark all over again by putting scissors to paper. Martha Teichner ...

NEW YORK – Some art exhibitions shoot across the cultural season like comets. They ravish the eye; they don't come around very often; and they're very much worth a stretch to see in person. The Museum ...

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 ...

“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 ...

“Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,” at the Museum of Modern Art, is the strangest youthquake the world has ever seen—a youthquake dreamed up by an artist in his seventies and sustained straight through to ...

They were the two giants of art — Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. And their friendship and rivalry over almost half a century created an extraordinary visual dialogue to be found at New York's Museum ...

Gathering over 300 works, an expansive exhibition at the Grand Palais spotlights the artist’s creatively fertile final years.