After mounting definitive retrospectives of Pablo Picasso in 1980 and Henri Matisse in 1992, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with London’s Tate Modern and Paris’s Musée Picasso and ...

NEW YORK, March 12 (UPI) -- Artists have been bouncing ideas off each other since they worked in caves in pre-historic France and Spain, but none have enjoyed the game of one-upmanship more than Henri ...

Pablo Picasso couldn’t have created his masterpiece Les Demoiselles d’Avignon in 1907 if it weren’t for the looming presence of Henri Matisse. Picasso was angered, frustrated and inspired by the ...

New Yorkers are a competitive sort, as competitive about culture as they are about sports. So it adds up that the idea for the museum blockbuster to end all blockbusters—scrappy Catalan vs. refined ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Squeezed into its MOMA-in-exile headquarters in a rehabilitated Queens, ...

Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse were the 20th century’s greatest artistic frenemies. When Gertrude Stein introduced them in 1906, Matisse said he and Picasso were “as different as the north pole is ...

For nearly fifty years, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso pushed each other, goaded each other, drew from each other, and tried to best each other. It may not be too much to say that, over the course of ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. I suspect that I learned more from my daily visits to MOMA that unforgettable week than I had in years of ...

Gathering over 300 works, an expansive exhibition at the Grand Palais spotlights the artist’s creatively fertile final years.

“Jann Wenner: What do you think Paul will think of your album? “John Lennon: I think it’ll probably scare him, into doing something decent. And then he’ll scare me into doing something decent and I’ll ...