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Claude Monet

Apricot: Last Chance to View Camille at The Met

Alison Winfield Burns | Posted 05.24.2013 | Arts
Alison Winfield Burns

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity at the Metropolitan Museum of Art displays how master painters (mavericks in their day) created magical gardens -- and gowns -- using relationships between light and dark color.

Happy Birthday, Claude Monet!

Posted 11.14.2012 | Arts

Today is the birthday of French Impressionist master, Claude Monet. The plein-air devotee would turn 172 years old if he were miraculously still alive...

You Won't Believe How Much This Is Worth!

AP | Posted 01.09.2013 | Arts

NEW YORK — A work from Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" series has been sold for more than $43 million at a New York City auction. The money will ...

Big Art Heist Reported At Dutch Museum

AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 12.15.2012 | Arts

AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Thieves broke into a Rotterdam museum on Tuesday and walked off with works from the likes of Picasso, Monet, Gauguin and Matisse pot...

Art and Education: An Interview

David Galenson | Posted 11.20.2012 | Home
David Galenson

Earlier this year I was sent an electronic book aimed at teachers, titled The Art of Learning. I enjoyed reading it, and Richard and Christine agreed to do the following interview about it by email.

Bodies in Space: Leah Yerpe's Very Large Drawings

Daniel Maidman | Posted 11.17.2012 | Arts
Daniel Maidman

I've been a fan of Yerpe's extremely cool -- one might say icily cool -- work since I first saw it in 2009. For me, a lot of what makes art good is the degree of interesting thinking I have in response to viewing it.

Our List Of Late-Blooming Artists May Surprise You

Posted 09.01.2012 | Arts

More often than not, our cultural heroes are barely of drinking age when they make their mark: Orson Welles was 25 when he created his masterpiece, "C...

What Did This $1.4M Painting Have To Do With Monet's Suicide Attempt?

Posted 08.02.2012 | Arts

We are excited to introduce "The Hidden Histories," a new series in which we revisit the stories behind our favorite landmark works of art. (For your ...

Take A Look Inside Monet's Garden

Posted 05.04.2012 | Arts

In 1883 Claude Monet and his family rented a house with a barn that doubled as a painting studio in Giverny. Years later, the garden's green bridge, w...

PHOTOS: In Giverny, Living Claude Monet's Impressionistic Picture

Sivan Askayo | Posted 06.19.2012 | Travel
Sivan Askayo

A visit to Monet's home in Giverny results in some surprisingly creative travel photographs.

'Footprints on Snow' Finds Its Way

Posted 04.16.2012 | Arts

Imagine Claude Monet's pastel Poplars... if Monet was working 100 years later and spent a lot of time on the internet... and you get somewhere close t...

Happy Birthday Cezanne!

Posted 01.19.2012 | Arts

Today marks the 173rd birthday of the French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne. If Impressionism is considered to be the first modern art moveme...

WATCH: Masterpieces Recreated With Junk

Posted 12.20.2011 | Arts

They say "one man's trash is another man's treasure," but in Thomas Deininger's recreated landscapes the old saying takes on a while new meaning. D...

Art Dealer Arrested For $2 Million Of Fake Art

Posted 11.16.2011 | Arts

Is the signature on your Monet a little too legible? It could be a fake; word is they're going around. A former art dealer was arrested in South F...

Record Sale Of Schiele Work Brings London Auction Total To $155M

Posted 08.23.2011 | Arts

Last week in London a sale of just 35 lots brought in $155 million (97 million pounds) for Sotheby's. The highest selling piece was a townscape, "Hous...

Paris in the Time of the Impressionists

David Galenson | Posted 07.31.2011 | Arts
David Galenson

In an essay written in the 1930s, the poet Paul ValƩry reflected on an extraordinary era: Degas plus Renoir; Monet plus CƩzanne; and in the same way...

Author Stephanie Cowell Chats About Claude and Camille and Her Next Historical Novel

Susan Dormady Eisenberg | Posted 06.04.2011 | Books
Susan Dormady Eisenberg

Stephanie Cowell writes lush and compelling fictional portraits of the world's greatest artists, writers, and composers: their struggles, their liaisons, their failures and successes.

Maison Sennelier: Color Inspiration From Paris

Hayley Griffith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Hayley Griffith

My color inspiration is found within the doors of a beautiful historic Parisian landmark located in front of the Louvre in France.

Hirst, Picasso Exhibitions Slated At Tate For London Olympics

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

LONDON (Reuters) - Tate museums will showcase works by 19th and 20th century giants Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and Edvard Munch as well as contempo...

PHOTOS: E.V. Day's Kaleidoscopic Reinterpretation Of Monet's Flowers

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

WHO: E.V. Day WHAT: Seducers WHEN: January 14 through March 5, 2011 WHERE: Carolina Nitsch Project Room 534 West 22 St. New York, NY 10011 212.645...

Monet At Midnight: Visitor Demand Keeps Artist's Grand Palais Show Open 24 Hours A Day

ARTINFO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
ARTINFO

The massive exhibition "Claude Monet, 1840-1926" at the Grand Palais -- the first of its kind in Paris in 30 years -- has been a huge success. Online ...

ART ECONOMY: $68.9 Mil Painting Of Nude Woman Sign of Recovery? Modigliani, Matisse And Monet Auctioned At Sotheby's

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

The auction season is off to a solid start at Sotheby's where works by Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso were up for au...

PHOTOS: INTERNATIONAL ART: From Murakami To Monet: 10 Things To See In Paris During FIAC

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

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BLOG WATCH> Digital Nights At Singapore Art Museum

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Digital Nights, an adaptation of Nuit Blanche that prioritizes the technological in the multidisciplinary vision of contemporary art, is a 10-day sho...

AUCTION NEWS: Winners, Losers, And Surprises So Far This Year At Christie's, Sotheby's

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Last week brought news of Christie's record-breaking sales for the first half of this year. We're happy to report that news from the art continues to ...