An X-ray diffraction of Henri Matisse's "Blue Nude II," at the Pompidou Center, Paris, February 19, 2025. HERVÉ VÉRONÈSE Renzo Piano has never been a man of systems, but he has always liked coherence.

The much-heralded exhibition of Matisse cut-outs currently at the Museum of Modern Art was previously at the Tate Modern, with a few less items than here, but it broke all attendance records and was ...

Henri Matisse, the son of a merchant family from cold, grey Picardy, in northern France, was pulled inexorably south by the promise of art and light. While serving as a law clerk in the town of ...

Once used as fighting words during the recent PMA strike, “Matisse in the 1930s” opens, tracing a transformative decade in the life of Henri Matisse. File photo: Philadelphia Museum of Arts is opening ...

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In her collage series #blackfolk, Brooklyn-based creative Elise R Peterson places prolific figures in the nooks of fine art to create spaces for some of contemporary culture’s most badass black icons.