Matisse’s friends were dying in the trenches when he met a new model. “Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things,” wrote the poet Robert Browning. “The honest thief, the tender murderer, the ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art curator-at-large Dr. Denise Murrell stands near Henri Matisse's "Woman in White." The Des Moines Art Center has plenty of interesting works in its permanent collection. Now ...

The exhibition places special emphasis on Matisse's exploration of the female figure. More than twenty works focus on the nude across the 1920s and 1930s.

As the art world is getting ready for the back-to-back two-week frenzy of Frieze London and Art Basel Paris, there’s an equally important event in Switzerland. Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel ...