Blooming good: Monet, maestros shine as garden art bridges East and West

Two famed water lily paintings by French Impressionist master Claude Monet will go on display in Hong Kong from Friday in a free exhibition highlighting cultural exchange between East and West. The show, titled “Blooming: the Art of Garden in East and West”, brings together more than 100 sets of exhibits from the Art Institute of Chicago, Beijing’s Palace Museum and the Palace of Versailles in Paris. The Hong Kong Museum of Art in Tsim Sha Tsui, which is hosting the show, has also contributed...

By Ambrose Li