For me the truly amazing thing about Paul Klee was his incredible ability, constantly, to search out new pictorial ideas and yet simultaneously to create a unique, individual expression

I’d never seen a Munch in person before I went to visit the Munch Museum in Norway this past September. Walking its halls, I saw many of Munch’s famous works.

The giant horizontal body seemed to be floating in black space, as if levitating. There was a profound stillness about it.

Matisse’s Piano Lesson is the painting I keep going back to at MOMA. For me, it’s the most compelling modern painting in New York.

Let's start with the leg. It is bandaged and horribly swollen. Red arteries, blue veins and yellow pus circle the limb.

Pasty male flesh, muscled hairy chests, leather, fur, rope-bound hands, a bloody cloth and a whip: this painting is intriguing to contemplate in reproduction...

Matisse was a traveler, more than we’d think, given the large internal scale of his forms and pared-down, architectonic compositions that establish a sense of timelessness in his best works.

Gertrude Stein is as famous for her art collecting as she is for her writing. As an American living in Paris with her wife Alice B. Toklas...