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 ...

Francophiles are in heaven this summer as the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University turns its focus on all manner of French art. The main offering, “Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings ...

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 ...

“I have worked for years in order that people might say, ‘It seems so easy to do,’” Henri Matisse once said. If his paintings offer a peek into an insular, layered, and sensual world, his cutouts—now ...