Portland Art Museum’s ‘Waterlilies’ restoration gives the beloved Monet painting ‘back its voice’
After an 18-month hiatus, a restored “Waterlilies” by impressionist painter Claude Monet is back on display through August at ...
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Why Restore Waterlilies Now?
The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another.
See how Katsushika Hokusai inspired Claude Monet at Minneapolis Institute of Art show
French Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Edo-era Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) never met and were alive at the same time for only nine years. But sometimes your ...
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Poet Aja Monet’s Cure for Loneliness
“I can’t believe y’all came,” she says to the crowd of roughly 500 people, visibly­ humbled. If poets are often characterized as misanthropes toiling in obsessive solitude, monet instead ...