The Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2024 has been awarded to Jackie Wullschläger for her biography of the French impressionist painter Claude Monet. At an event at the London home of ...

Jackie Wullschläger’s exemplary biography reveals the impressionist painter’s obsessive commitment to his art. By Michael Prodger In 1865, Claude Monet suffered one of the most bizarre accidents ever ...

Ross King has won the 2017 RBC Taylor Prize for Mad Enchantment. The annual $25,000 prize honours the best in Canadian nonfiction. In Mad Enchantment, King delves into the brilliant but troubled mind ...

Many in the art world may not know (myself included) that the late Impressionist artist Claude Monet was a significant art collector in his lifetime. Monet possessed numerous paintings, including ...

So wrote the Impressionist Monet to a friend in 1908, about the water lilies in his garden at Giverny, which he painted over and over again during the last 30 years of his life. Today, visitors to ...

Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott ...