Notes From a Cataclysmic Atmosphere
f crisis permits, Henri Matisse’s , 1914, will hang in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Over a century ago, on 24 January 1915, this painting of a goldfish bowl in a darkening studio appeared in New York newspaper under the title ‘What Is Happening In The World of Art’. The writer, who is not afforded a byline, notes, “Matisse is the greatest name in art to-day. There is no one in France who is talked about
