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 ...

After Henri Matisse’s body was weakened by a cancer operation in 1941, the French artist began “painting with scissors,” creating collages with paper shapes. The works, many of which he made in the ...

“An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, a prisoner of style, a prisoner of a reputation, a prisoner of success,” wrote Henri Matisse in his book Jazz (1947). It was with this book that the ...

Gathering over 300 works, an expansive exhibition at the Grand Palais spotlights the artist’s creatively fertile final years.