Ann Temkin is The Marie-Josee and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA Dorthe Aagesen is Chief Curator and Senior Researcher at Statens Museums for Kunst
The optical-sensuous equivalent of a five-alarm fire.--Sebastian Smee Washington Post The Red Studio has the effect of making Matisse's world less abstract...Allows us to enter not only the artist's studio but also the life and mind of the artist--Daniel Ross Goodman Washington Examiner Aesthetic bliss saturates--radically, to a degree still apt to startle when you pause to reflect on it--the means, ends, and very soul of a style that was so far ahead of its time that its full influence took decades to kick in.--Peter Schjeldahl New Yorker A meticulous examination of the inner and outer life of a single painting.--Roberta Smith New York Times: Arts We see how, in an incredibly condensed period of time, an artist can traverse universes and touch down in places unexpected. We witness an artist not only inventing and reinventing himself but reinventing art history as he does so. In these little spaces, you can almost hear these mighty engines roar.--Jerry Saltz New York Magazine: Vulture