ASHEVILLE, N.C. — A 20th century master once observed that an artist should never be a prisoner. "Prisoner?" he said. "An artist must never be a prisoner of himself, a prisoner of style, a prisoner of ...

To the Smithsonian’s everlasting shame, and the Baltimore Museum of Art’s everlasting credit, the BMA will present Amy Sherald’s “American Sublime” 40 miles northeast of occupied Washington, D.C.

When Henri Matisse headed to Morocco in the winter of 1912, he was at a particularly low ebb. “It was crunch time for him,” says Jeff Koehler, the author of Matisse in Morocco: A Journey of Light and ...

“This painting wants to take me somewhere else,” Henri Matisse once told his eldest daughter, Marguerite Duthuit-Matisse, as she was modeling for him. “Do you feel up to it?” For Matisse, an artist ...

Newmarket has been and gone, and the Curragh is still to come, but it is the turn of Longchamp to provide the next chapter of the European classic season May 11, starting with the Poule d'Essai des ...

Ten years ago, a radical spine cancer surgery simultaneously saved my life and disabled me. I had been a very active person, but after surgery, my legs were partially paralyzed. Initially, I leaned on ...

Dows Lane kindergartners dove into the colorful world of French artist Henri Matisse. Photos courtesy of the Irvington Union Free School District Dows Lane Elementary School kindergartners dove into ...

French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own career ...

The Des Moines Art Center has plenty of interesting works in its permanent collection. Now one is on the road, stopping first in New York City and then across the Atlantic to Switzerland before ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Simon Kelly of the St. Louis Art Museum talks about one of Henri Matisse's most famous artworks, part of the new exhibition, ...

The leaders of a short-lived but consequential art movement that flourished early in the 20th century take center stage at the Met Museum. By Roberta Smith If you ever took an art history survey in ...

The luxury apartment on the French Riviera that was the longtime residence and studio of artist Henri Matisse while he produced many of his iconic paintings has been listed for €2.48 million (US$2.68 ...