A woman a walks past 'The Parekeet and the Mermaid 1952' by Henri Matisse, on display during a media opportunity at The Tate Modern in London, Monday, April 14, 2014. The artwork is part of the 'Henri ...

The hottest ticket in New York right now is not The Book of Mormon or Kinky Boots, nor Weezer or The Brain Cloud. It is entry to MOMA's exhibit of nearly 100 colorful scissor-and-paper cutouts by ...

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 ...

There are many reasons why it’s difficult to leave the show of “Matisse Cutouts” at the Baltimore Museum of Art, but above all there’s a reluctance to leave the sense of affirmation of life that comes ...

Henri Matisse spent his final decades largely confined to a wheelchair, having been weakened by cancer surgery at age 72. But the renowned French artist didn’t allow his physical condition to slow his ...

A blockbuster Matisse exhibition disproving the myth that his famous cut-outs could be made by a child has broken all Tate records, eclipsing Damien Hirst to become the most popular show in its ...

In our first Guardian Live event on American soil, Guardian US art critic Jason Farago spoke to Moma’s Jodi Hauptman and Karl Buchberg about the once-in-a-lifetime Matisse show they organised A ...

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 ...

The famous artist overcame grave illness to forge a brave new direction in modern art. Alastair Sooke explains the power and the meaning of Matisse’s late works. In 1941, Matisse survived a ...

From the early 1940s onwards, French painter Henri Matisse began to develop a technique that he had experimented with earlier in his life, taking pieces of colour paper and cutting into them to make ...

A battle with cancer in the 1940s left artist Henri Matisse confined to a wheelchair. Poor health prevented him from painting, but didn't stop him from creating art. Instead of using a paintbrush, he ...