The Smart About Art series continues with Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors by Jane O'Connor, illus. by Jessie Hartland. Presented and organized in the style of a grade-school report (and written ...

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 ...

A battle with cancer in the 1940s left artist Henri Matisse confined to a wheelchair. Poor health prevented him from painting, but didn't stop him from creating art. Instead of using a paintbrush, he ...

Reporting from NEW YORK — At the end of World War II, when Europe was recovering from the onslaught, the great French artist Henri Matisse was recovering from personal battles. Matisse, then in his ...

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 ...

Reporting from NEW YORK — When Henri Matisse (1869-1954) finished his breakthrough painting “The Joy of Life,” he was 36. A new century was just getting underway, and he flung open a door to an ...

The hottest ticket in New York right now is not The Book of Mormon or Kinky Boots, nor Weezer or The Brain Cloud. It is entry to MOMA's exhibit of nearly 100 colorful scissor-and-paper cutouts by ...

“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 ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) made scissors his chief implement and paper his primary medium. This was a radical reinvention, one born of both physical and artistic necessity. Matisse ...

"I’m sorry. The lecture is completely sold out," a museum representative said. "Sold out! I thought the event was free!" a disappointed prospective attendee responded. Last Thursday, at the Harvard ...