Henri Matisse

Tycoon pockets an estimated £15m from Lloyd's after HE tore a priceless Picasso

When businessman Steve Wynn put his elbow through the canvas of a £70million Picasso, he could hardly have imagined the mishap would reap him millions of pounds. But Mr Wynn took an enormous gamble - and sued Lloyd's of London...

Designer fragrance being sold in $1,500 Matisse bottles

What would you do if you were the grandson of the founder of luxury conglomerate LVMH? If you were Kilian Hennessy, you’d make a fragrance, then enlist a descendant of painter Henri Matisse to design the bottles. By Kilian...

Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters on View at Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA)

DETROIT, MI - An extraordinary “who’s who” of modern art masters, including Monet, Dali, van Gogh, Renoir, Degas, Matisse, Picasso and Rodin—to name just a few—will be on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) October 12th...

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What they'd love to keep in Detroit

We asked DIA director Graham Beal and curator of modern art MaryAnn Wilkinson which three works included in "Monet to Dalí" they'd rather not return to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Here's what they said:

Can you hear them shout in ‘silent’ spaces?

In 2003, Mujib had a heart bypass operation, a near-death experience. Always the Sunday painter, Mujib now began regularly depicting rooms within rooms, an eclectic but ordered mix of colour and culture.

Museums Branch Out

For first time in France, Paris's museums launch plans to replicate themselves in provincial cities A race by Paris museums for the soul of provincial France kicked off yesterday when the Pompidou unveiled its program for its...

Snub from mima as Bob Dylan art show is rejected

Oct 9 2008 by John Sutton, Evening Gazette WHEN one of the most influential musicians of the Twentieth Century comes Knockin’ on mima’s Door, you would expect him to be let in. But in a move that has stunned fans, the artwork...

Lily Cole Tries To Contact Gary Glitter

THE Daily Mail is wondering how it can republish that shot of Lily Cole dressed as schoolgirl and give readers another chance to cut it out and keep it as a sign of the sick times in which we live. Allison Pearson steps into...

Picasso and the Masters opens at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais

PARIS - Pablo Picasso was trained in the strict rules of academic painting at a very early age, first by his father, José Ruiz-Blasco, a teacher at the fine art school in Málaga and director of the Malaga Museum, and then as a...

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