The painter Henri Matisse made his name by putting brush to canvas. And when chronic illness made painting difficult, he made his mark all over again by putting scissors to paper. Martha Teichner ...

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 ...

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The genius of Henri Matisse is captured in this vibrant collection of his paper cut-outs, his primary form of expression in the latter part of his career. As Michel Anthonioz, former director of the ...

We urged you to see it when it opened in October, but if you've been too busy complaining about the weather (understandable), let this be our last plea: Go see Matisse: The Cut-Outs at the Museum of ...

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 ...

It’s also a difference in artistic temperament. And how we respond shows, I think, a difference in temperament, too. Me? I’ve always gone for the head, not the eye, or indeed the heart. In other words ...

Paper litters my desk, chair and — thanks to the teething puppy — floor. I wish I could ship it to Matisse, who would paint it brilliant, cut it fanciful, and pin it to the wall, arranging the shapes ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Even when he was in his 80s and in frail health, the French painter, sculptor and, latterly, master of painted cut-out paper Henri Matisse, still had it. That, in part, is what an ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blue figures swim around walls, dancers prance in a circle and flowers sprout on a huge canvas in an exhibition of the cut-out works of French artist Henri Matisse that opens next ...