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Margaret Preston’s Mosman Bay (1920).

Two of Australia’s great artists lead exhibition full of echoes

Cutting Through Time explores affinities between Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and Japanese printmakers.

  • John McDonald

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Blue poles by Jackson Pollock is now valued at more than $500 million, by far the most valuable painting in the NGA’s collection.

Pollock’s Blue poles could be coming to a suburban gallery near you

The National Gallery of Australia is loaning its collection out to suburban and regional galleries across the country, with a $174 million Monet first on the list.

  • Linda Morris
Jess Peterson of The Lume explores the new exhibition of First Nations artists.

The Lume’s Indigenous leap in colourful change of pace

More than a million visitors flocked to The Lume in South Wharf for an “immersive experience” of the works of Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet. Next, the digital exhibition will showcase lesser-known Indigenous artists.

  • Cara Waters
Climate change protesters threw soup over Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at London’s National Gallery on Friday, the Just Stop Oil campaign group said.

Does the word ‘woke’ do what it says on the tin?

It’s become a pejorative term that can mean all things to all people, but it’s almost useless as an adjective because it is never used by the people it purports to describe.

  • Jacqueline Maley

After Van Gogh’s projected success, Lume is rolling in the Monet

Digital art gallery The Lume is bringing a new exhibition to Melbourne featuring projections of work by Monet and other impressionist artists.

  • Cara Waters
The interactive Monet and Friends exhibition at the Royal Hall of Industries in Sydney.

For the love of Monet, do we really need to smell the water lilies?

Multi-sensory exhibitions exploit the progressive decay of the public attention span and the need for instant experience.

  • John McDonald
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How the Monet & Friends exhibition will look when it opens at Sydney’s Hall of Industries.

Show me the Monet: new digital exhibition brings French masters to Sydney

Monet & Friends – Life, Light & Colour premieres at Sydney’s Royal Hall of Industries in March.

  • Steve Meacham
Claude Monet at work for the monumental painting Nympheas in his studio in Giverny c. 1920

On the trail of the mentors who made an impression on Claude Monet

Despite the disapproval of his wealthy family, a handful of "undesirable" older painters were key in the development of the impressionist's art.

  • John McDonald
Marianne Mathieu of the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris and curator for the NGA's Monet exhibition with Monet's Impression, Sunrise, on loan to a gallery outside of its Paris home for the first time.

The sunrise that ushered in a new artistic dawn

Art movements begin with groups of poor but talented Bohemians scheming in cafés, and end by dominating the museums of the world. That’s pretty much the story of Claude Monet.

  • John McDonald
Ruth Hoppe, the modern art conservator at the Gemeentemuseum, with a painting of wisteria by Monet in The Hague, May 24, 2019. After Hoppe X-rayed the work, she found that another painting of water lilies was underneath.

Under a Monet painting, restorers find new Water Lilies

A previously undiscovered Water Lilies painting by Claude Monet has been found beneath another painting.

  • Nina Siegal

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