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Monet’s Gift Is Now the l’Orangerie + Matisse, Hockney & Modigliani

The Musée National de l’Orangerie des Tuileries in Paris is housed in a relatively small building, and yet it is brimming with joie de vivre — an exuberant enjoyment and celebration of life! Originally constructed to house citrus trees during the cold winter of 1852, the l’Orangerie truly blossomed in the 1920s when the French State and Claude Monet transformed the structure into a center for displaying fine art. For such a modest museum, the l’Orangerie offers a good permanent collection with Renoirs and Picassos, a dedicated exhibition space for temporary shows of the highest quality, and two spectacular oval rooms offering a peaceful presentation of Monet’s water lilies.

How To Find One Magical Museum of Art

Tired of cookie-cutter museums with antiseptic white walls and uninspired exhibitions, we started our search in New York City, then traveled to the Midwest, and finally flew to California in order to find a special home for art lovers — one magical museum of art. We visited the Brooklyn Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, SFMOMA, the Norton Simon Museum, the Getty Center, the Broad, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Chicago — See the Most Extraordinary Art & Architecture in the USA

During stressful times, when one hopes to gain perspective on life's complexities, the best tonic may be a walk by a lake or through a park, perhaps a boat ride to take in the creativity all around us, or an inspirational visit to a museum. As the poet and mystic Thomas Merton observed, "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

Two Superior Museums of Art in the Heart of Vienna

After many visits to Vienna in recent years, we have chosen the Albertina Museum as Austria’s greatest venue for art. The Albertina is the largest museum of modern art in Central Europe. It also possesses 65,000 drawings and roughly 1,000,000 Old Master prints, making the graphics collection (founded in 1776) housed inside the Albertina the most important in the world,…

New York City — 3 Incredible Art Museums

"You’ll probably need 3-5 hours just to see the permanent collection” at the Met, according to Go City, the largest multi-attraction pass company in the world. This is horrible advice. To make matters worse, Go City highlights “some of the best and most famous” areas at the Met Museum for you to walk through and suggests you start with Greek and Roman Art. Wrong!

Morozov Collection — The Best Art in Paris at Fondation Vuitton

Having viewed all the major exhibitions in Paris over the past five years, we feel privileged to have viewed Icons of Modern Art featuring The Morozov Collection from Russia at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. This once-in-a-lifetime exhibition featured 200 masterpieces of modern art from the collection of Mikhail and Ivan Morozov...

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A Unique & Fabulous Pilgrimage to the Marmottan in Paris

10/26/2023 / 1 Comment

The world's largest collection of paintings by Claude Monet rests comfortably today in the leafy hamlet of Passy (a neighborhood absorbed into the City of Paris in 1860) inside a townhouse with Empire-style salons. This property was purchased in 1882 by Jules Marmottan, a lawyer and mining-company director who collected pre-Renaissance art from Germany, Flanders and Italy.

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Alice Neel in the Guggenheim Bilbao — Astonishing Paintings

10/25/2023 / No Comments

The Guggenheim Bilbao describes the painter Alice Neel (1900 — 1984) as “one of the most radical artists of the 20th century.” “A fervent advocate for social justice, humanism, and the dignity of people,” according to the organizers of this career-spanning retrospective, Neel “considered herself a ‘collector of souls’.” When this exhibition entitled Alice Neel: People Come First was presented…

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Van Gogh — Vincent’s Influence in Germany

10/24/2023 / 1 Comment

Based on the trailblazing exhibition entitled “Making Van Gogh” which was on view at the Städel Museum from October 23, 2019 through February 16, 2020, we feel it is justified to refer to Vincent van Gogh as the “Father of Expressionism.” Without a doubt, this spectacular presentation of 50 paintings (and additional works on paper) by Van Gogh goes even…

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The Best Past Exhibits at the Grand Palais & Petit Palais

10/23/2023 / No Comments

We put together this article for those of you who missed seeing interesting exhibitions at your favorite museums during recent years. Our hope is that you will enjoy seeing some of these images from Paris even though the works of art are no longer on public display. Past exhibitions you will find in this article include: Giovanni Boldini Ilya Repin…

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Previous Exhibitions at the Musée d’Orsay

10/22/2023 / No Comments

We put together this article for those of you who missed seeing interesting exhibitions during recent years at one of your favorite museums: the Musée d’Orsay. Our hope is that you will enjoy seeing some of these images from Paris even though the works of art are no longer on public display. Past exhibitions you will find in this article…

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Scandinavia – the Venice of the North

10/21/2023 / No Comments

Tourists tend to visit Scandinavia during the summertime or on a cruise to Russia; however, you may decide to go at any time of year. You will definitely avoid large crowds by traveling in the off-season.

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Great Exhibitions from the Past at the Pompidou Centre

10/20/2023 / No Comments

We put together this article for those of you who missed seeing interesting exhibitions at your favorite museums during recent years. Our hope is that you will enjoy seeing some of these images from the Pompidou Centre in Paris, even though most of the works of art pictured below are no longer on public display. Past exhibitions you will find…

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