'An exceptional sale': dazzling Rockefeller collection could fetch $1bn
Sprawling private collection of 1,600 of David Rockefeller’s items will go on auction at Christie’s – and could break recordsThere was a hushed sense of awe among the spectators perusing the nearly...
View ArticleRockefeller auction: Picasso painting sells for $115m as part of $646m haul
The collection up for auction, put together by the oil dynasty scion, features art from Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and Georgia O’KeeffeA record-breaking first evening of a three-day auction of David...
View ArticleFemale artists are finally in our galleries – let's keep them there
Galleries are finally choosing to exhibit works by women – but will they stay on the walls once the trend for representation has passed? It’s all of our jobs to ensure they doOn the face of it, 2018...
View ArticleIt's a #masterpiece! What if Gauguin and Monet had been on Instagram?
Illustrator Jean-Philippe Delhomme has imagined how great painters would have fared on social media – and the trolling their work might have receivedLet’s revisit history for a minute and pretend that...
View ArticleOn my radar: Robert Icke’s cultural highlights
The writer and theatre director on OJ Simpson, Monet’s garden and the perfect ChopinWriter and theatre director Robert Icke was born in Stockton-on-Tees and educated at the University of Cambridge....
View ArticleRembrandt smoulders, Turner blazes and gravity has a drink – the week in art
Turner sets January alight, India’s miniaturists create wonders, the third decade begins and Rembrandt’s embers feed the soul – all in your weekly dispatchTurner in JanuaryThis annual artistic treat...
View ArticleHirst goes virtual and Banksy creates a caped crusader – the week in art
A punk philosopher picks up the brush, past surrealists bloom again and Frieze serves fries – all in your weekly dispatchRodney GrahamThe Canadian punk conceptualist famous for his philosophical videos...
View ArticleHow do we know Monet painted this outdoors? The great British art quiz
The National Gallery in London has set today’s quiz, which allows you to explore the collections of museums closed due to coronavirus – while answering some tricky questionsThis quiz is brought to you...
View ArticleMonet's water lilies to star at National Gallery in London
Impressionist artists to ‘brighten walls’ of gallery in major exhibition from September 2021Three spectacular water lily paintings by Claude Monet are to be loaned to the National Gallery as part of...
View ArticleGauguin and the Impressionists review – a dream collection
Royal Academy, LondonA Danish art lover’s spectacular collection of works by Monet, Manet, Cézanne and others is full of intrigue and surpriseThat people fall in love with paintings is no exaggeration....
View ArticleThe 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 disposalGoing up close to a great work of art, perhaps to Auguste Rodin’s...
View ArticleMonet, Renoir and Degas paintings to travel to Melbourne for NGV...
More than 100 French artworks – on loan from Museum of Fine Arts in Boston – to appear alongside paintings by Australian impressionists More than 100 impressionist masterworks, including 19 Monet...
View ArticleMonet’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 WednesdayBeneath the scudding clouds and...
View ArticleThe French Impressionists rediscovered: ‘They didn’t know their works would...
With paintings from Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh and others, National Gallery of Victoria’s new exhibition encourages audiences to look behind the blockbuster“Damned Manet! Everything he does he always hits...
View ArticleWaterloo Bridge masterpiece by Claude Monet expected to sell for £24m
Work is part of a series painted by the artist while he stayed at Savoy hotel with views across the ThamesAn “iconic work” by the impressionist master Claude Monet that has been in the same family for...
View ArticleSmog, glorious smog: how Monet saw through London’s poisonous wealth
The Frenchman was transfixed by the light he saw in the polluted city. But his misty painting of Waterloo Bridge, about to go under the hammer for an expected £24m, was anything but romantic Claude...
View ArticleClimate change activists throw mashed potato at Monet painting – video
Activists from Letzte Generation [Last Generation] throw mashed potatoes at Claude Monet's 'Les Meules' in a bid to draw attention to the climate crisis. No damage was caused to the artwork because the...
View ArticleYour ultimate Melbourne events guide: the best things to do this weekend and...
Summer in the City is Guardian Australia’s ultimate guide to the best arts, gigs and festivals happening around the country. Here, we’ve picked out some highlights for Melbourne in January. To view the...
View ArticleThe 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 collectionThe name Monet conjures up pictures of water lilies, Rouen Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament...
View ArticleAi 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 yearsClaude Monet’s monumental triptych Water Lilies 1914 -26, which depicts nature’s...
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