Art historian Kathryn Brown will discuss Matisse's posthumously published artist’s book based on poems by the Franco-American writer John-Antoine Nau, Poésies Antillaises (1972). Although the book depicted and celebrated Caribbean people, landscapes and seascapes, it also perpetuated romantic myths of a tropical paradise. Matisse's book is examined and contextualized against the rise of the Négritude … Continued

Midwest Museum Talks is a program of online curatorial talks organized by the Villa Albertine Chicago. This installment will focus on the theme of Matisse and the Sea. The virtual discussion with Simon Kelly, exhibition curator and curator of modern and contemporary art at SLAM, and Claudine Grammont, former director of the Musée Matisse Nice … Continued