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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the Second World War, Henri Matisse created the most famous illustrated book of his era using nothing more than scissors and colored paper. Jazz was praised by contemporaries including the ...

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 ...

“Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,” at the Museum of Modern Art, is the strangest youthquake the world has ever seen—a youthquake dreamed up by an artist in his seventies and sustained straight through to ...

When Paris galleries became suspect because of the Nazi occupation of France in the World War II, Matisse mounted his own exhibition at home in his studio and proposed to appeal directly to the public ...