Giverny, France – Claude Monet's Gardens are both intimately familiar and overwhelming in their spectacle. The French impressionist master lived in Giverny, France, for half his life, from 1883 to his ...

GIVERNY, France — “My greatest masterpiece,” Claude Monet once said, “is my garden.” Looking at his garden here, I could not argue that this profusion of flowers and ponds was less than a masterpiece, ...

NOTE: this story and the accompanying photographs originally ran in the Free Press in October 2009. We are reprinting it in honor of the Monet Giverny painting that went on display at the Detroit ...

Every winter, the head gardener at Claude Monet’s garden in the tiny French village of Giverny sits down to a stack of seed catalogs—and braces for disappointment. Jean-Marie Avisard knows he must ...

The gardens that gave French painter Claude Monet more than two decades of inspiration to create magnificent works of art now on display around the world have finally reopened to the public. Giverny, ...

There were good omens one recent spring morning: sunshine after rain, cafe creme and Annick Goutal’s Eau du Ciel soap. I decided to capitalize on these signs by visiting painter Claude Monet’s home ...

In anticipation of the upcoming exhibition "Monet and American Impressionism," which opens Oct. 16, the Jepson is hosting a small but arresting show by contemporary artist Mickalene Thomas. "Mickalene ...

There are worse places to be stuck in a traffic jam. In Claude Monet's gardens in Giverny, Normandy,, on one of the bridges over the water lily pond, visitors wait for the crowd to move forward, ...

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