The precious flowers, drifting, their movement almost imperceptible, over the liquid blue-green surfaces of the artist’s ...

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another.

That was 66 years ago. The Portland Art Museum bought “Waterlilies” in 1959 for $60,000 (just over $650,000 in today’s money, ...

an unnamed painting from among roughly 250 entries in Monet’s iconic Water Lilies series which has never been shown unvarnished in a major institution outside of the Monet family’s personal ...

In Water Lilies #1, Ai probes notions of reality and artifice. Although Monet’s word-famous painting represents the epitome of natural beauty, the pond and gardens he depicts were in fact a man-made ...