art The final days of Matisse
through SUNDAY If you haven’t seen the Denver Art Museum’s“Matisse & Friends,” you have just a little time left. That’s not such a problem, actually. The exhibit has just 14 paintings and you can wander through it in a short in a matter of minutes. DAM, of course, hopes you’ll linger and it has made the show of Fauvist painters welcoming for an extended visit. , some lovely Debussey playing in the background and plenty of reading materials. It’s all in support for the marvels on the walls: colorful p[aintings, on loan from the National Gallery of Art, by André Derain, Albert Marquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Dufy, Georges Braque, Kees van Dongen and, the man himself, Henri Matisse. Through Feb. 8, Denver Art Museum, 13th Avenue, between Broadway and Bannock Street, $10. 720-865-5000 or denverartmuseum.org.
Ray Mark Rinaldi
