In 2023 the bar for shows was so high it was hard to choose the best. But which one was a stinker?

Plus, we speak to the artist Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, who will be representing Iceland in Venice next year, and pick a work from the Matisse show at the Metropolitan Museum in New York

The French painter and memoirist, who worked in Paris, London and the United States, showed elegance and ferocity in her work and a remarkable versatility as a colourist

All you ever wanted to know about Matisse, from a definitive two-volume biography to the writings of the artist himself—selected by the curator Dorthe Aagesen

From Lukas Quietzsch at Ramiken to Matisse at the Museum of Modern Art

The objects in the painting—including several of the artist's own works—have been brought together for an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, which later travels to Copenhagen

Plus, Winslow Homer at the Met and China's Russia problem

US museum builds a permanent research space for its "crown jewel"—more than 1,200 works by Henri Matisse

Plus, a new centre to study Matisse at Baltimore Museum of Art and Josef Albers's lithographs at Cristea Roberts in London

Baltimore Museum of Art exhibition pays tribute to the French artist and his most ardent American patron

She saw 'flying art' as a collaboration with wind and light and found ways to 'fly' her kites underwater and in galleries, kept in motion with blown air and mechanical reels

One of the most expansive museum surveys on the French artist in 50 years will present his book and magazine designs—and even some of his own writing

After netting $4.2m for a Cranach, the museum plans to sell off works by Monet, Dubuffet, Degas, Miró and Matisse

Plus, Sophie Matisse on her great-grandfather Henri. Produced in association with Christie's

In an interview for The Week in Art Podcast, Sophie reveals how the support of Henri Matisse's wife Amélie became a central theme of Becoming Matisse

Plus, Sean Scully talks about his favourite "lonely work", The Moroccans by Matisse in New York's Museum of Modern Art. Produced in association with Christie's

Rarely seen works show how the modern master combined text and image

Museum will draw on its 1,200 works by the artist to help further scholarship

The French Modern master’s oil painting Femme assise sur un balcon was withdrawn from a Canadian sale after bidding stalled below the reserve price

Grandchildren of muse depicted in 1908 painting exhaust their US appeals

The only authorised authenticator of the artist’s work started her 40-year career as an assistant to Matisse’s daughter, Marguerite Duthuit

Rebuffing heirs, an appeals panel in New York says the court lacks jurisdiction

Evening auction featuring the family's most valuable works set new records for Monet and Matisse

Christie’s sale of 46 works from La Salle collection, by artists such as Matisse and Degas, has angered arts professionals

Museum of Fine Arts confirms acquisition to bring together Modern masterpieces originally commissioned for billionaire's Manhattan penthouse

Paris art dealer Jérôme Le Blay ordered to hand over works to artist’s descendants

French appeal court to decide case brought by company based in Hong Kong against artist’s family

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will be the first place outside of France to have this honour