Was there any pressing need, apart from the considerable (if unfashionable) pleasure of seeing a lot of fine pictures, for the Art Institute of Chicago to organize a major Monet retrospective, his ...

Claude Monet casts such a grand shadow in the history of European art that the very mention of Impressionism invariably conjures images of Monet’s water lilies, garden scenes, and landscapes before it ...

Chicago has had a long love affair with Claude Monet -- one that dates back to the late 1800s, after the Great Chicago Fire. The Art Institute's upcoming exhibition, Monet and Chicago, is the first of ...

Putting together a Monet exhibit with more than 120 works from 80 lenders in 15 countries is best done by a life-long Monet fan – and Christoph Heinrich qualifies. "It's like Christmas and every other ...

With Immersive Van Gogh and Immersive Frida Kahlo already under our belts, Chicago is getting yet another immersive exhibit—and this time, the projections will depict work from a broad array of iconic ...

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The story of Claude Monet’s “Apple Trees in Blossom” and Chicago is long, significant and now — with the Union League Club’s decision to sell its most valuable artwork to cover pandemic-year losses — ...

The Art Institute of Chicago became the first American museum to purchase one of Monet’s paintings, and now Chicago is home to the largest collection of works by the artist outside of Paris. As the ...

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