A new exhibition sheds light on Marguerite Matisse, who survived childhood trauma and Nazi torture to become her father’s ‘conscience’.

In the year that copyright on the French artist’s work expires, an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris aims to ...

The late French artist Henri Matisse has become hugely popular among a certain type of 20- and 30-something woman. But what’s behind the revival? Stylist’s Moya Crockett (a self-professed “M ...

Hélène Leloup (b. 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 ...

Analysing the highs and lows of our recent attendance survey, plus a tour of a show exploring how the UK’s most famous ...

The Des Moines Art Center has plenty of interesting works in its permanent collection. Now one is on the road, stopping first in New York City and then across the Atlantic to Switzerland before ...

Just a stone's throw from the Palais de Tokyo, the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris is devoting an unprecedented exhibition to ...

In September 1940, less than three months after Paris had surrendered to Hitler’s armies, artist Henri Matisse, stranded in Nice on the Mediterranean coast, sent a moving letter to his younger ...

According to his biographer Hilary Spurling, “His own paintings filled him with perturbation. At some point in 1901 or 1902 he slashed one of them with a palette knife.” If Henri Matisse was ...

How did André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Matisse fare in Paris during the Nazi occupation 1940-44? Given that their Fauve works in German museums had been seized ...

Spring is a time for renewal, and not only in nature. Fresh new exhibitions are opening at museums around the world, with an emphasis on collaborations, cross-cultural exchanges and family bonds.