Curator Rebecca Rabinow on "Jazz," an illustrated book by Henri Matisse.
Explore this object here.
Throughout 2013, The Met invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the way they see the world. Each episode is interpreted by a Museum photographer.
How to read a Matisse
"There are these gorgeous, sublime images, but there's also a sense of worry."
Rebecca Rabinow
3 min. watch
Contributors
Rebecca Rabinow
Former Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and Curator in Charge of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center
Former Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and Curator in Charge of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center
Photography by Anne-Marie Kellen
© 2013 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
More from The Met
Exploring fashion through the lens of music in The Costume Institute Library.
Julie Lê
July 22
How did this revolutionary musical notation technique, developed by a monk in the tenth century, transform music pedagogy?
Rebecca Lindsey
July 20
Video
Join Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, Curator in the Department of Musical Instruments, and Ava Valentino, Research Assistant in the Department of Musical Instruments, along with Brett Renfer, Senior Project Manager of Emerging Technologies, to virtually explore the Musical Bodies exhibition.
June 18
More in:Music
Art Mentioned
A slider containing 1 items.
Press the down key to skip to the last item.
Press the down key to skip to the last item.
Multiple artists/makers
1947