When he wrote this, Matisse was in a wheelchair, wielding scissors and colored paper rather than brushes and oil paint. The sea he was writing about was, of course, the Mediterranean, at Nice ...

The viral video was not, in fact, the discovery of a painting which was stolen in the still-unsolved Isabella Stewart Gardner ...

The painting in a key room in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy was as striking as it was massive: Jesus, his arms outstretched, hovered over a lifeboat packed with grateful sailors, lost at sea.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 35 years after the theft, restores frames: ‘We’re always hopeful for their return’ ...