Activist defaces Monet painting to draw attention to global heating – video
Climate activist defaces Monet painting in Paris
March 2024
Monet happy returns: Normandy celebrates 150 years of impressionism
The dramatic coastline of northern France inspired some of the country’s most famous artists. Now their work will appear in shows across the region
February 2024
As France celebrates, it doesn’t seem like 150 years since the first impressionist exhibition
A major exhibition opens at the Musée d’Orsay and there are shows and festivals across the country
December 2023
‘It’s time to re-examine its radical nature’: Paris to celebrate 150 years of impressionism
Musée d’Orsay to open a major show to throw new light on the 1874 exhibition that marked the advent of avant-garde art
November 2023
‘We never thought we’d have a Monet on our farm’: $174m artwork heads to regional Australian gallery
An impressionist masterpiece is being displayed in the Tweed Valley as the National Gallery shares its collection around the country
March 2023
Ai Weiwei’s Lego re-imagining of Monet’s water lilies to go on show in London
Exclusive: 15-metre-long work made up of 650,000 Lego bricks to form part of artist’s biggest UK show in eight years
February 2023
The other Monet: impressionist’s brother is star of new exhibition
A Paris show will focus on Claude’s little-known elder sibling Léon Monet and his impressionist collection
January 2023
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October 2022
Climate change activists throw mashed potato at Monet painting – video
'We are in a climate catastrophe and all you are afraid of ... mashed potatoes on a painting', one activists says after climate crisis stunt at Germany museum
May 2022
Smog, glorious smog: how Monet saw through London’s poisonous wealth
Waterloo Bridge masterpiece by Claude Monet expected to sell for £24m
June 2021
The French Impressionists rediscovered: ‘They didn’t know their works would be masterpieces’
With paintings from Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh and others, National Gallery of Victoria’s new exhibition encourages audiences to look behind the blockbuster
May 2021
From the agencies
Monet’s garden prepares to reopen – in pictures
After a closure of more than six months, the gardens at Giverny that inspired Monet’s world-famous paintings of water lilies and other masterpieces reopen on Wednesday
March 2021
Monet, Renoir and Degas paintings to travel to Melbourne for NGV impressionist exhibition
More than 100 French artworks – on loan from Museum of Fine Arts in Boston – to appear alongside paintings by Australian impressionists
November 2020
The bigger picture: should British museums sell to stay afloat?
As galleries auction off treasures to retain staff and plug cash gaps left by Covid, the art world is divided on ethics of disposal
August 2020
Gauguin and the Impressionists review – a dream collection
Monet's water lilies to star at National Gallery in London
May 2020
The great British art quiz
How do we know Monet painted this outdoors? The great British art quiz
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