Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York June 23 – September 25, 2005 The genius of the exhibit Matisse: His Art and His Textiles, is that it provides insight into how an artist works – the material and intellectual processes by which art is made.  Hilary Spurling, the Matisse biographer, originally suggested the exhibition’s concept to the…

New York Studio School 8 West 8th Street New York NY 10011 212 673 6466 February 17 to May 7, 2005 The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture is housed in a nationally land marked building on 8th Street – a maze-like architectural wonder that combines four Victorian townhouses, mews carriage houses,…