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 ...

Here's a pop quiz: What kind of sane person forgoes a sweet hibernation and willingly ventures to Midtown Manhattan—the heart of the American nightmare—after 2 o'clock in the morning on a frigid ...

Scissors, paper, pins - these were all it took for Henri Matisse, in the last years of his life, often bedridden and feeling he was living on borrowed time, to create the works that now fill galleries ...

It hasn’t opened yet but the exhibition of Henry Matisse’s colorful, vibrant paper cut-outs at the Tate Modern Museum in London is already lauded as the exhibition of the season and is predicted to ...