At Tate Liverpool, a powerful exploration of nature, industrialisation, and the global movement of people and plants reveals how trade, migration, and colonial histories have shaped urban and natural ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954 ... the visionary culmination of a lifetime’s mastery of drawing, painting and sculpture. For Matisse, who likened making cutouts to swimming and flying ...

Visitors take in Henri Matisse's cutout "The Swimming Pool" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2014. (Selçuk Acar / ...

Modern artists like Picasso and Matisse turned away from the avant-garde experimental work of cubism and fauvism and instead favored classical nudes and interiors. The following decade resulted in the ...

In countries that abide by the “life plus 70 years” copyright term, such as the United Kingdom and parts of Europe and South America, the works of celebrated French artist Henri Matisse ...

You can sense the sheer pleasure, the delight in his sun-drenched paintings. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire said it well: “Like the orange, Henri Matisse’s paintings are the fruit of dazzling ...

1927) is one of the art world’s true pioneers, bringing together a spirit of adventure, a detailed anthropological approach and deep knowledge to become one of the foremost specialists in African and ...

I find myself consumed with the later years of Henri Matisse, an artist his friend and rival Pablo Picasso dubbed “a magician.” Matisse wasn’t simply vital at the painful, disabled end of ...