Claude Monet died 90 years ago, but his famous water lilies still have power over viewers. What's the secret to their staying power? It might have to do with their creator's particular attachment to ...

Two years ago, a San Francisco museum exhibit revealed the stunning early career of French artist Claude Monet. The storyline ended about the time his painting “Impression—Summer” went on display in ...

Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies” series is coveted by museums and private collectors worldwide. But one Dutch museum owned one without even knowing it. Experts at the Gemeentemuseum in the Hague ...

Biologists are always learning new information about the genetic makeup of different species. At the end of last year, a group of researchers based in different labs in China, Belgium and the United ...

An exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum offers American a rare chance to revel in the beauty of his late style. Claude Monet in front of his house in Giverny, 1921. Photo Courtesy of Musee d'Orsay, ...

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Monet’s paintings of water ...

Anyone who has stood before Claude Monet's monumental Water Lily paintings may recall feeling dissolved into their world of ineffable light and seemingly perfect tranquility. A new book makes clear ...

Hundreds of the most famous paintings ever committed to canvas almost never came into being — all because of a group of paranoid French farmers, an exhibition curator has revealed. Claude Monet ...

Question: When, if ever, is a museum justified in describing a tiny exhibition of nine paintings as a "blockbuster" show? Answer: When those nine paintings are all by French Impressionist master ...

To think, the course of modern art could have been so different if the council bureaucrats had got their way. Monet had moved with his family to the commune of Giverny, 50 miles west of Paris, in 1883 ...

Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to dorm rooms and dentists' lounges. Today is the 90th ...

Two years ago, a San Francisco museum exhibit revealed the stunning early career of French artist Claude Monet. The storyline ended about the time his painting “Impression—Summer” went on display in ...