{"id":75061,"date":"2025-10-12T03:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/75061\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T03:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:33:11","slug":"monets-venice-comes-alive-in-new-brooklyn-museum-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/75061\/","title":{"rendered":"Monet’s Venice comes alive in new Brooklyn Museum exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum<\/a> is transporting visitors to turn-of-the-century Venice, seen through the eyes of French impressionist Claude Monet.<\/p>\n

Monet and Venice pairs the famed painter’s Venetian paintings with a newly composed symphony, taking visitors on a journey to experience the sights, sounds, and even smells of the city, with a custom fragrance inspired by the marine air of the lagoon. The result is an immersive tribute that fuses art, sound, and scent.<\/p>\n

“His paintings are very complex, very layered,” said Lisa Small, senior curator of European art at the Brooklyn Museum.<\/p>\n

Small called the exhibition historic for New York City.<\/p>\n

“This is the biggest museum exhibition of Monet’s work in New York City in 25 years,” she said.<\/p>\n

“It makes me feel as if I’m back in Europe”<\/p>\n

The show unites a collection of Monet’s artwork from a brief but impactful trip he took with his wife, Alice, in 1908.<\/p>\n

Visitors say the experience feels almost dreamlike.<\/p>\n

“This sort of brings me back into a world of enchantment… It makes me feel as if I’m back in Europe,” said Adele Lake, visiting from North Carolina.<\/p>\n

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In addition to the visual elements, the museum commissioned a scent as part of the immersive experience that complements beautiful footage shot by a Venetian filmmaker.<\/p>\n

“This beautiful, subtle, layered scent made by Joya Studios here in Brooklyn has notes of the marine air and water lilies,” Small said.<\/p>\n

And then there’s the music<\/p>\n

The exhibit traces Monet’s Venetian travels, including familiar tourist sites, and highlights his famous water-lily paintings, which reflect his lifelong fascination with light and water.<\/p>\n

“When you look at that picture right there and you’ve been there, it’s like remembering it through those child’s eyes. I think that’s extraordinary,” said Ryan Ulrich, visiting from Seattle.<\/p>\n

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The experience culminates in a circular gallery filled with Monet’s Venetian motifs, multiple canvases of the same places painted at different times of day. The display is set to an original symphony by composer-in-residence Niles Luther.<\/p>\n

“He was inspired by the same sights and sounds that Monet was,” Small said. “And he wrote this really evocative 36-minute-long symphony comprised of several movements, each of which relates to one of Monet’s motifs.”<\/p>\n

Bridging tone, texture, and tempo,\u00a0Monet and Venice\u00a0invites visitors to see, and hear, the artist’s world anew.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is now open and runs through Feb. 1 at the Brooklyn Museum.<\/p>\n

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