The Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris opened "Monet, Painting Time" on 30 September 2026, an exhibition timed to the centenary of Claude Monet's death. Monet died on 5 December 1926 at his home in Giverny, and 2026 has brought a wave of commemorations across France; the Orangerie show runs until 25 January 2027. The exhibition takes time as its subject, following how Monet painted the instability of the real from the 1870s onward: shifting light, a passing cloud, the shimmer of a reflection. Bringing together nearly forty paintings from the museum's own holdings and outside loans — including the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée Marmottan Monet and international public and private lenders — it connects his early plein-air experiments with his great serial projects before arriving at the immersive ambition of the Water Lilies. The Nymphéas cycle, permanently housed at the Orangerie, takes centre stage, alongside the Rouen Cathedral series in which Monet recorded how a single motif changes as light and hour shift. The result is a reading of his career as a sustained inquiry into the instant and duration, made at the moment when railways, standardised timetables and faster transport were remaking the experience of time itself. After Paris, the exhibition travels to Tate Modern in London, where it will be shown from 25 February to 27 June 2027. During the Paris run, the Orangerie extends its Friday opening hours until 9pm at a reduced rate, offering evening access to the centenary presentation; Friday tickets are available from 6pm, and entry is free for under-18s and EEA residents under 26.