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Discover Matisse’s color, simplicity, and composition in these five paintings.

© Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)—Moment/Getty Images The Detroit Institute of Arts houses one of Detroit’s most vibrant and extensive collections of art. Here are just nine of the paintings worth seeing there. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. The Bay (1963) Helen Frankenthaler was the inventor of Color Field painting, and her creations are among the most beautiful and poetic examples of abstraction in the genre’s history. Fra...

© MedioImages/Getty Images The Gardner Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts are two of the great art institutions in Boston where you can see these paintings. The collections in these institutions are significantly more diverse in terms of creators and subject matter than is represented by this list. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Grainstack (Snow Effect) (1891) In October 1890, Claude Monet wrote in a letter to his future biographe...

Blair Castle joins Smartify amid plans to maintain international audiences Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Blair Castle is expanding its worldwide platform by joining the global museum app, Smartify. Ahead of its reopening on April 28, the Perthshire attraction has become the first Scottish landmark to partner with the app. International audiences The move to Smartify comes as part of Blair Castle’s strategy to maintain its international audience before foreign travel can once again take place. Head of Ma...