In her irreverent new exhibition, Sylvie Fleury is pairing the great modernist’s drawings and cutouts with her own fashion-focused work When Henri Matisse described his work as “in step with the ...

, on view at the BMA through Jan. 19, play a similar role, as if a dad were to whip out a sketchbook full of little drawings of his kid. Only, that dad is one of the most famous artists of the 20th ...

Today, American artist Ellsworth Kelly and Frenchman Henri Matisse are recognized as two of the most significant artists of the 20th century. Yet, their lifetimes overlapped for a mere 21 years; ...

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. “The drawing ...

Matisse's great-granddaughter and Diebenkorn's daughter got to see the exhibition before it opened to the public; Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant, 71, and Sophie Matisse, 51, met for the first time at the ...

In the late 1940s, an infirm and increasingly despondent Henri Matisse made repeat journeys along the French Riviera from his hideaway in Vence to Antibes. It was a most peculiar pilgrimage. An ...