By Karen Yuan

Karen Yuan is an 18 year-old student. Her writing has appeared in Thought Catalog and PolicyMic.

  1. “I found myself in the work”: Visiting Henri Matisse’s The Cut-Outs at MoMA

    By Karen Yuan

    in Beauty

    Karen Yuan's previous work for The Toast can be found here.

    In the last decade of his life, Henri Matisse couldn’t paint anymore. He sat post-surgery in a wheelchair in France’s Hôtel Régina, often barefoot and wearing a blue cardigan with no shirt beneath.

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  2. Three Haikus

    By Karen Yuan

    in Poetry

    Have we met? The way
    we navigate this far, tired
    planet is the same

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