Matisse: The Cut-Outs has landed in New York City’s Museum of Modern Art this fall after a successful showing at London’s Tate Modern (see “Matisse Show Attracts 562,622 Visitors to Tate Modern”). In ...
The French painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is one of the most beloved and frequently exhibited artists of the modern era. The short-lived Fauvism movement of which Matisse was a part believed that ...
On a recent cloudy day on Sixth Avenue and Fifty-third Street outside of MOMA, Sophie Matisse, the great-granddaughter of Henri, stood beside me and pointed north, south, east, and west. She can ...
New Yorkers are a competitive sort, as competitive about culture as they are about sports. So it adds up that the idea for the museum blockbuster to end all blockbusters—scrappy Catalan vs. refined ...
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 ...
The Strictly Critical duo recently visited the Matisse cut-outs exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art to see what sublime pleasure could be wrought by paper and scissor. Back in April, our own Coline ...
“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 ...
Henri Matisse, The Swimming Pool, late summer 1952. (Photo courtesy Museum of Modern Art) After a blockbuster run as the centerpiece of MoMA’s recent exhibition “Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,” ...
Reviewing an exhibition of the Paul Guillaume Collection in Paris in July 1929, the critic Adolph Basler offered the following Reviewing an exhibition of the Paul Guillaume Collection in Paris in July ...