WBEZ

Matisse ‘Jazz’ exhibition at Art Institute shows a creative hitting his stride in his 70s

Matisse made his colorful cut-outs late in life after debilitating abdominal surgery, and they are the star of this focused new exhibition.
Wall Street Journal

Matisse’s ‘The Swimming Pool’: MoMA’s Overflowing Inspiration

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 ...
agerpres

Matisse's 'La Blouse Roumaine' at MNAR; Kessler: Most expensive work ever exhibited in Romania

The Interim General Director of the National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR), critic Erwin Kessler says the famous art work 'La Blouse Roumaine' by Henri Matisse, which will go on display from 21 ...
insider.si.edu

Matisse metamorphoses edited by Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft / Kunsthaus Zürich ; idea and concept, Sandra Gianfreda

Matisse -- metamorphoses : introduction / Sandra Gianfreda -- Africa and Eros in Matisse's sculpture / Ellen McBreen -- Bifurcations in the process : temporal dimensions in Matisse's oeuvre / Bärbel ...
The Art Newspaper

Artists agonise over when a work is finished—but should we viewers care?

Of all artists’ dilemmas, among the toughest is deciding when a work is finished. A piece that might appear fresh and immediate runs the risk of being undercooked. And as the critic David Sylvester ...