It was eight or nine years ago, and I was on an architectural pilgrimage in France with my husband, who is obsessed with modernist buildings. We had been touring around looking at a lot of Le ...

There are many who treat modern and contemporary art as a religion. Henri Matisse and Sol LeWitt returned the favor, treating two hometown houses of worship to their adventurous art. Every item on ...

Sister Jacques-Marie, a Dominican nun whose friendship with artist Henri Matisse led him to create the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, France, died Monday. She was 84, according to Barbara Freed, a ...

Joe Hanrahan and his Midnight Company are presenting A Model for Matisse. It's the premiere of a new work about the great artist and the unusual relationship that led to his masterpiece in the last ...

The Chapel of the Rosary, which Matisse designed in the late 1940s, is on an unprepossessing street in the town of Vence in the hills above Nice. One’s first view of the building is of something ...