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Healing petals: Why spring flower season in Europe is the natural therapy you didn’t know you needed

Studies have revealed that time spent in nature can reduce stress, anxiety and blood pressure.

Euronews

No one took greater imaginative leaps and risks than Turner – he’s Britain’s greatest artist

IN FOCUS: It’s 250 years since the birth of this prodigious son of a barber and a wigmaker, but his weather-obsessed, sea-enamoured paintings have never been surpassed, says Mark Hudson

The Independent UK

Friday essay: in an uncertain world, ‘green relief’ offers respite, healing and beauty

Have you ever sat with a cup of tea at the end of a weeding session, with a feeling close to happiness? Or returned from the local garden centre with a bag of potting mix and some plants – and soon the sight of your newly planted herbs or flowers…

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Dawn of Impressionism, Paris 1874 review – detailed examination of key moment in art history

Re-creating the founding of the Impressionist movement, when artists including Monet, Renoir and Cézanne showed their work at their own exhibition

The Guardian - UK

7 of the best free museums in Paris: From ancient apothecary to magnificent Monets

These Parisian galleries, archives and exhibitions are admission-free throughout the year

The Independent UK

10 famous homes around the world – and why you need to visit them in your lifetime

From Antoni Gaudí's Casa Milà to the Ernest Hemingway House in Key West, these are the architectural greats that have left an impression on the world

Homes & Gardens

The Great Wave: why has this become the defining image of our era?

Almost two centuries after its creation, Hokusai’s print is more popular than ever, featuring on everything from nail art to Lego to socks. What is its appeal?

The Guardian - UK

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Possible sale of Monet’s Water Lilies on Chinese social media causes disbelief

Painting apparently sold on Chinese Instagram equivalent Xiaohongshu

The Independent UK

"Could they be our human pods, like those from the Matrix?": Kate Bush draws parallels between Impressionist painter Monet and AI in annual Christmas message

Kate Bush has something to say

Louder

The best art and architecture of 2024

Our critics’ highlights include magnificently rough portraits by the late Frank Auerbach, Caravaggio’s final painting and a 1930s silo reborn as a museum of modern art

The Guardian - UK

A duct-taped banana is now worth $1 million

The fruit is replaced regularly, along with the tape

The Independent UK

The don’t-miss Swiss art museums for your next cultural flit

Map these 11 Swiss art museums, worthy pitstops for the culturally curious, from Basel to Zürich and beyond

Wallpaper

Mammoth impressionist exhibition returning to Australia

After an initial run was derailed by COVID lockdowns, one of the biggest ever French impressionist exhibitions to visit Australia is set to return to Melbourne.

AAP

Vive L’impressionnisme! at the Van Gogh Museum: a compelling, eco-conscious celebration of impressionism

Despite its corny title, Vive L’Impressionnisme!, which recently opened at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, is well worth seeing. Marking the 150th anniversary of the first impressionist exhibition, the show tells the story of how one of the movement’s founders, Claude Monet, and his contemporaries were supported by a…

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The Guardian - US

FBI returns Monet painting stolen by Nazis to family of the Jewish owners

Agents were ‘honored’ to give back the piece as hundreds of thousands of stolen cultural objects remain unreturned

The Independent UK

Nazi-looted Monet artwork returned to family generations later

A Nazi-looted Claude Monet pastel has been returned to descendants of the man who owned it when it was seized in Austria decades ago

The Guardian - UK

Impressionism-on-Thames, a star slacker and a disturbing double act – the week in art

Monet brightens up London, Mike Kelley’s teddies have their big day out and Goya goes head-to-head with Paula Rego – all in your weekly dispatch

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50 Unforgettable Historical Photos That Tell Stories Beyond Words

We can’t know everything that has ever happened, but discovering new bits of history can be very exciting. The post 50 Unforgettable Historical Photos That Tell Stories Beyond Words first appeared on Bored Panda.

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These colourful diagrams show how air quality has changed in over 100 countries around the world since 1850

Air pollution is an unseen menace that poses a major threat to human health and the climate. We have created the air quality stripes, a visual tool that captures global air pollution trends, to bring this hidden threat into sharp focus.

The Guardian - UK

How gift of Monet painting brightened demoralised Churchill’s postwar years

Generous present for former PM will feature in a landmark exhibition of the artist’s London masterpieces

The Guardian - UK

Modernist Paris, a Monet adventure park and the death of life drawing – the week in art

Oscar Murillo turns Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall into an epic painting garden, while Goshka Macuga delves into ancient archeology, and the Paris of 1924 is revisited, which is the last time it held the Olympics

Bored Panda

30 Famous Paintings And Their Real-Life Locations By ‘The Cultural Tutor’

Have you ever seen such a beautiful painting you wished you could crawl inside of it? To be inside the world that Van Gogh, Cézanne, or Monet created? The post 30 Famous Paintings And Their Real-Life Locations By ‘The Cultural Tutor’ first appeared on Bored Panda.

France 24

Celebrating 150 years of Impressionism at Claude Monet's gardens in Giverny

The Impressionist painters, from Monet to Renoir, Pissarro and Morisot, are beloved around the world. This year, France is celebrating their very first exhibition – a show that was one of the most momentous exhibitions in art history 150 years ago. To mark the event, arts24's Eve Jackson takes us…

International Business Times

Activist Arrested For Attacking Monet Painting In Paris

French police on Saturday arrested a climate activist who staged a protest attack on a priceless Claude Monet painting at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, prosecutors said.

The Independent UK

A climate activist in Paris stuck a protest poster on Monet's 'Poppy Field'

An environmental activist was detained after sticking a protest sign to a Monet painting in Paris’ famed Orsay Museum

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