The Brooklyn Museum will present "Monet and Venice" from October 11, 2025, to February 1, 2026, the first major exhibition in over a century dedicated to Claude Monet's Venetian cityscapes. The show reunites nineteen of Monet's Venetian paintings alongside more than one hundred artworks, books, and ephemera, placing them in context with works by Canaletto, John Singer Sargent, J. M. W. Turner, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is cocurated by Lisa Small of the Brooklyn Museum and Melissa Buron of the Victoria & Albert Museum, and sponsored by Bank of America.
This exhibition matters because it marks the largest museum show dedicated to Monet in New York City in over 25 years and the first focused exploration of his luminous Venetian works since their debut in 1912. By highlighting an underexplored chapter of Monet's late career, the show offers fresh insight into his radical style and the city's influence on his art, while also addressing themes of pollution and overtourism that Monet himself observed. It continues the Brooklyn Museum's long tradition of Monet-focused exhibitions and provides a rare opportunity for audiences to engage with these radiant paintings.