By Maika Pollack 5/24/11 11:21pm

Museums

The Cone Sisters’ Art Collection Imitated Their Lives

Today, art fairs bring the international avant-garde to every urban doorstep, but collectors once had to track it down for themselves. In the early 20th century, when Gertrude Stein wrote, “You can be a museum or you can be modern, but you can’t be both,” two sisters from Baltimore, Claribel and Etta Cone, amassed one Read More

By Phyllis Tuchman 7/14/10 1:15am

An Artist at War: MoMA Opens a Matisse 1913-1917 Blockbuster Sunday

It is particularly fascinating that the two large, marquee paintings in “Matisse: Radical Invention 1913-1917,” Bathers by a River and The Moroccans, were works that he began before the First World War and finished near its end. Shortly before he died in 1954, at the age of 84, Matisse cited these two paintings — a Read More