Claude Monet- Monet's Palate®

CLAUDE MONET - MONET'S PALATE - SEASONS GREETING FROM GIVERNY

2011-12-23T11:36:00.002-05:00

NEW MONET'S PALATE - CLAUDE MONET WEBSITE LAUNCHED

2011-12-08T19:16:00.008-05:00

THE NEW MONET'S PALATE WEBSITE LAUNCHED!!

COME CELEBRATE THE MANY PASSIONS OF CLAUDE MONET INCLUDING THE FILM MONET'S PALATE WITH MERYL STREEP!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAUDE OSCAR MONET NOVEMBER 14, 2012

2011-11-13T21:57:00.004-05:00

happy birthday claude monet november 14, 2011

AILEEN BORDMAN- MONETS PALATE 11/08 by Olivia Wilder | Blog Talk Radio

2011-11-06T10:46:00.000-05:00

AILEEN BORDMAN- MONETS PALATE 11/08 by Olivia Wilder | Blog Talk Radio

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS- WOODY ALLEN- CLAUDE MONET- MONET'S PALATE

2011-05-04T12:57:00.005-04:00

woody allen, owen wilson, kathy bates, claude monet, givenry, japanese bridge, kiss, midnight in paris, champagne,water lily, need we say more :)

Kari de Koenigswater

2011-04-08T23:19:00.009-04:00

I was supposed to be in Scotland this past September and then The Shetland Islands....my plans changed and I was so sad not only to miss seeing the Puffins :) but seeing my friend Kari's work at a Gallery. Needless to say I had to post this amazing treatment of my own NYC skyline and for you to get to discover her calming and beautiful art. Do visit her site

Kari de Koenigswater - Cheers, Aileen Bordman

FACEBOOK 8,600 MEMBERS CLAUDE MONET- MONET'S PALATE

2011-03-22T15:02:00.005-04:00

Claude Monet - Monet's Palate on FACEBOOK has hit 8,600 members in just 4 weeks. The best part is that the members of the Community along with learning about the film Monet's Palate with Meryl Streep get to interact with Claude and Madame Monet about art, food, wine, entertaining, gardening...it is as if you are at Claude Monet's home sitting with him, his family and his friends in Giverny :)

CLAUDE MONET FACEBOOK - MONET'S PALATE

2011-03-17T10:48:00.005-04:00

The official page for FACEBOOK Monet's Palate - Claude Monet has been launched and already over 4,000 people called "MPals" passionate about Claude Monet, his art, food, gardens and home in Giverny and the film Monet's Palate with Meryl Streep have joined. The moderator IS CLAUDE MONET well not really but with the knowledge of Claude Monet's real everyday life and things he was passionate about the MPals are able to transport themselves to the world of Monet's Palate and feel like they are living, visiting, being entertained, dining with and talking to Claude Monet himself. The film by Aileen Bordman "Monet's Palate" - A Gastronomic View from the Gardens of Giverny is now airing Nationally through American Public Television and includes Meryl Streep, Daniel Boulud, Alice Waters, Michel Richard, Roger Verge, Anton Edelmann, Ann Willan , Steve Wynn and of course Claude Monet. The film was shot completely on location at Claude Monet's home and gardens in Giverny, Paris and London. Claude Monet and his "palate to palette" passion for his art and food " he was the original foodie" are highlighted. This is the link for Monet's Palate - Claude Monet. You can also become a "Mpal" by just liking the Facebook page. Then pour a glass of wine as Monet would have and join the fun...its like being at dinner with Claude Monet. Aileen Bordman

FARM MARKET IN GIVERNY CLAUDE MONET ALSO HOPES FOR A BRIGHTER 2011

2011-02-03T13:11:00.007-05:00

LOTS OF DELICIOUS VEGGIES IN GIVERNY SPRING WILL BE HERE SOON. WE HAVE ALL HAD ENOUGH WINTER EVEN CLAUDE MONET ALTHOUGH ANOTHER WINTER SCENE MIGHT BE IN ORDER :) - Aileen Bordman

MONET'S PALATE 2011

2011-01-03T13:25:00.004-05:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS - CLAUDE MONET 2010

2010-12-24T11:06:00.009-05:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS - CLAUDE MONET

Mrs. Monet is calling me. Seems I am just about the only person in miles of Giverny that looks like St. Nick :) Do you think that along with the milk and biscuits that some caring soul will leave me a little wine ? Joyeux Noël ,Merry Christmas, Buon Natale,Frohe Weihnachten,Feliz Navidad....CM :)

CLAUDE MONET- GRAND PALAIS 22.9.2010

2010-09-22T10:00:00.008-04:00

CLAUDE MONET AT THE GRAND PALAIS

September 22 2010

The world’s largest-ever exhibition dedicated to the French impressionist master Claude Monet has opened in Paris. The Grand Palais, just off the famous Champs Elysees, runs until January 24. Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to attend. 80,000 tickets have already been sold. The exhibition includes nearly two hundred works, a third of which come from the collection of the city’s Musee d’Orsay. The rest have been loaned by galleries and private collectors in the US, Japan, Britain and Russia. - GO CLAUDE :) Aileen Bordman Monet's Palate

RECORD SALE FOR CLAUDE MONET - JUNE 24 2010

2010-06-23T12:15:00.003-04:00

The summer auction season here began at Christie’s on Tuesday night when a standing-room-only crowd of dealers, collectors and art lovers came from all over the world to watch and bid on one of the largest London sales the auction house has held. Early in the evening a record price for a Monet, $80.4 million, was set for one of the rarest of his waterlilies. A sea of hands shot in the air when that painting, “Le Bassin aux Nymphéas,” which had been expected to sell for $36 million to $47 million, came up on the block. Among at least six would-be buyers, a blond woman in the front row bid tenaciously against several Christie’s representatives on the telephone with clients. When the price hit nearly $70 million, Christopher Burge, Christie’s honorary chairman in the United States and one of the evening’s two auctioneers, leaned over and said to the woman, “Take as long as you like.” The woman, identified as Tania Buckrell Pos of Arts & Management International, a London company, ended up winning the painting on behalf of an unknown client, and the salesroom burst into applause. The previous record for a Monet, $41.4 million for “The Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil,” was set last month at Christie's in New York. “Le Bassin aux Nymphéas,” from 1919, a large horizontal work measuring more than 3 feet by 6 feet, is from a series of four that Monet signed and dated and that experts consider to be among the most important paintings from his late period. Unlike most of his late works, which remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1926, this series was sold by him. One is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; another was cut in two; and a third is in a private collection, having been sold at Christie’s in New York in 1992 for $12.1 million, a stellar price at the time. BRAVO CLAUDE - Aileen Bordman June 23, 2010

Monet's Palate - American Public Television

2010-04-14T10:21:00.006-04:00

Due to the overwhelming response to Monet's Palate when it was presented to various PBS Stations...American Public Television has decided to directly distribute Monet's Palate nationally starting the later part of 2010. I will post details when the exact launch date is set..till then we are very happy in Monet's Palate country and look forward to everyone getting to see the many worlds of Claude Monet and his passions for art AND food.

Cheers, Aileen Bordman April 14, 2010

CLAUDE MONET TO BE BURIED IN PARIS? HERALD NEWS JAN 2010

2010-01-25T11:56:00.004-05:00

FROM THE HERALD NEWS - WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THIS PLAYS OUT

Impressionist Claude Monet created his famous gardens at Giverny, including the water garden, then painted them. He is buried nearby. Eighty-four years after his death, Claude Monet may finally leave his beloved village of Giverny and return to the centre of Paris. President Nicolas Sarkozy is considering whether to honour a promise made by his predecessor, and move the remains of the Impressionist painter to the Pantheon, the last resting place of France's official heroes. The idea has been revived by the art critic and gallery owner, Guy Wildenstein, to coincide with a vast Monet exhibition that will take place at the Grand Palais in Paris from September to January 2011. This will be the largest Monet exhibition in France for 30 years, assembling more than 200 paintings from museums and private collections across the world. In 1999, former President Jacques Chirac promised Wildenstein's father, Daniel Wildenstein - the leading expert on Monet - that he would have the painter's remains moved to the Pantheon. The idea was dropped after the then-culture minister insisted Monet - who was born in 1840 and died in 1926 - should remain buried in Normandy in the village churchyard in Giverny, 100km west of Paris, close to his celebrated house and water lily garden. Wildenstein Jr, who owns a leading New York art gallery, has reopened the issue in a letter to Sarkozy. He points out that the Pantheon's claim to be the last resting place of the official Great and Good of France is undermined by one surprising omission: it contains no celebrated artist, and just one painter, the obscure neo-classicist Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809), a favourite of Napoleon. "I don't want to denigrate [Vien's] talent but all the same," Wildenstein said. "Monet ... influenced an entire generation." Sarkozy was said to be studying the idea seriously. Late last year, he was accused of a form of political grave digging after he suggested that the body of the novelist Albert Camus should be moved into the Pantheon. Left-wing politicians accused the centre-right President of trying to snatch the body of one of their heroes. Literary critics complained that a spiritual rebel like Camus should not be placed among the official heroes of the French republic. Proposing the removal of Monet's remains to the Pantheon might help Sarkozy to turn the page - or start a new canvas. Although Monet and his fellow Impressionists were rejected and lampooned by the French art establishment when they emerged in the early 1870s, they have long since been accepted as one of the greatest symbols of French creativity. In 1999, Chirac gave a solemn promise to Daniel Wildenstein that he would have Monet's remains removed to the domed building on the Paris left-bank. Nothing happened before the older Wildenstein, who spent 50 years drawing up the official catalogue of Monet's works, died in 2001. The centre-right President Chirac was sharing power at the time with a Socialist-led government. The then culture minister, Catherine Trautmann, rejected the idea of moving Monet's body. In 1999 she wrote that Monet was "passionately attached to Giverny where he lived for many years and is buried beside his wife. "Claude Monet was a man of the light and all who appreciate the joy and beauty given by this great artist would wish to see him left in peace in Giverny".

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American Wine and Food Festival 2009

2009-09-25T11:19:00.023-04:00

The 27th American Wine and Food Festival

To Benefit Meals on Wheels

When I think of my friends who are in the culinary world..I always think of them as givers, nurturers...after all isn't that what a Chef does when preparing a meal? I can imagine them peaking through the crack in the kitchen door or over the expansive dining room of a restaurant such as SPAGO to see if their art is being appreciated. They are also looking to see if they have brought joy to the diner. Well then it should come as no surprise that those people who are at the top of the culinary world are also those who have the largest hearts and are the biggest givers. Proudly, my very dear friend Barbara Lazaroff epitomizes that role and along with many in the culinary world will hold the 27th Wine and Food Festival to benefit Meals on Wheels. Barbara Lazaroff and Wolfgang Puck founded this event and every year the reach of their festival feeds more and more people who otherwise might go hungry. This is a must support, must be there event. It is a weekend of events starting on October 2. The main event is an incredible Saturday night on the backlot of Universal Studios featuring top chefs and vintners from around the country. What better way to spend your time then tasting incredible food, sipping wonderful wine and all for a great cause. The information on the festival is available on the website at www.awff.org I often say a "Toast to Monet " when speaking of Monet's Palate but in this case I say " A toast to those who truly know how to give to others" - Aileen Bordman

HELEN RAPPEL BORDMAN MUSEUM CLAUDE MONET GIVERNY 30th YEAR

2009-05-06T18:35:00.026-04:00

Aileen Bordman 2009 Claude Monet Home and Gardens in Giverny: It is with the UTMOST pride that I get to write this Blog entry about my mother Helen Rappel Bordman who is the Founder of the Volunteer program at Monet’s home and gardens in Giverny and has aided the Fondation Claude Monet in helping to restore Monet’s home and gardens to their original splendor. This year marks her 30th year of dedication to the Museum and Foundation. Helen's journey started with a recommendation from Lila Achenson Wallace to Florence and Gerald Van der Kemp. It wasn't until 1977 that Gerald Van der Kemp, who restored Versailles, decided to work on Giverny. A large part of it was restored with gifts from U.S. benefactors, especially the late Lila Acheson Wallace, former head of Reader's Digest. Florence Van der Kemp's dedication to Giverny inspired my mother to work throughout the year not just when she was in residence at Monet's home to do all she could to make the Museum what it is today. Amazing people like Claudette Lindsay and Laurent Echaubard at the Museum helped to foster and inspire the dedication and spirit my mother possesses. Additionally, since these very early days my mother has helped to raise the funds to grow and maintain Claude Monet's Home and Gardens. In fact, visitors who met her in the gardens would occasionally donate to the Foundation every year just because she inspired them. Additionally as the head of the volunteer program spending each Spring for the past 30 in Giverny, she has welcomed visitors to Monet's oasis. Each year students and people with special skills like gardening would be part of the annual Volunteer program which to this day is continuing. Guests at the Museum through the years have included many diplomats and celebrities including Prince Charles, Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Tony Bennett, Steve Wynn, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Streisand, Kirk Douglas, Bette Midler, Louis Jourdan oh my the list just goes on and on. Of course the most important guests are all the adults and children who come from every country and continent in the world to witness the beauty of Monet's creation...the gardens and home in Giverny. The plaque above honors my mothers work at Fondation Claude Monet which still welcomes donations to help support Monet in Giverny. Lastly, to quote Bonnie Lautenberg ..Senator Frank Lautenberg's wife to whom I spoke with last week " Your Mother is so full of life and energy" "she truly represents America in France with her good work in Giverny" All I can say is Bravo Helen Bordman you are truly an inspiration and I know your love for Monet and his home continues as always with the same passion you had in the early years. I am so proud of you - Aileen Bordman 6 Mai 2009

THE WHITE HOUSE - CLAUDE MONET

2009-03-30T13:59:00.007-04:00

Morning On the Seine

With so much focus on the White House these days I thought it would be great to point out that Claude Monet's painting...well actually one of a series called Morning on the Seine in this case Good Weather which was painted in 1897 was a gift of the family of John Kennedy in his memory in 1963. This is only one of many amazing and historic art treasures found both on the wall's of the White House and in the posession of the White House...so if we truly are all part of America and if the White House really does belong to ALL the people then happily we all own a Monet painting - Aileen Bordman

Monet's Palate - Art and Living Magazine

2009-02-25T15:14:00.012-05:00

Giverny - by David Kalman

Monet's Palate is featured in the WINTER issue of Art and Living Magazine on Newstands now. Click HERE to view ...it is on page 121. The issue also includes wonderful articles and interviews including Christopher Lowell, Leroy Neiman, Patrick Painter and Nobu Matsuhisa.

Monet’s Palate® is proud to join with Meryl Streep to help Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Auction

2008-09-15T10:34:00.010-04:00

Monet’s Palate® is proud to join with Meryl Streep to help

Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Auction October 10th to Nov 10 2008 at Charity Buzz

Auction Lot will be posted at http://www.monetspalate.com/

and http://www.charitybuzz.com/

FIRST LADY LAURA BUSH JUNE 14, 2008 Visits Claude Monet's GIVERNY AND IS GIFTED A COPY OF MONET'S PALATE

2008-06-14T13:33:00.013-04:00

First Lady LAURA BUSH a gracious lady and dedicated educator, visited Claude Monet's home in Giverny today June 14th, 2008. My mother Helen Rappel Bordman made sure to give her a copy of Monet's Palate hope she gets to watch it. - Aileen Bordman 日本华

MONET'S PALATE - FEATURED IN THE WINE SPECTATOR

2008-05-30T12:49:00.012-04:00

Monet's Palate is featured in the June Wine Spectator Magazine on sale now. How did they know Pizza is my favorite food in the whole world...do you think Monet would have loved it? I do -Listen to this current radio interview of Aileen Bordman on Woman and Wine Radio with host Julie Brosterman - CLICK ON THIS LINK - Woman and Wine- to listen..A Toast to Claude

NEIL GENZLINGER AT THE NEW YORK TIMES SAY ABOUT MONET'S PALATE CLAUDE MONET

2008-04-21T13:08:00.008-04:00

Next time you’re in an art museum where they have one of those lovely Claude masterpieces on the wall, walk right up to it and take a bite out of the canvas. Seriously. As the guards haul you away, simply explain that you were under the influence of “Monet’s Palate,” Neil Genzlinger, NY Times April 19th, 2008 - Aileen Bordman 日本华

MONET'S PALATE - CHANNEL 13 WNET NEW YORK CITY

2008-03-09T18:34:00.004-04:00

Monet's Palate - Claude Monet will begin airing on April 20th on Channel 13 New York City -

Aileen Bordman

WWW.MONETSPALATE.COM SITE TO BE RE-LAUNCHED WITH STYLE

2008-01-23T17:25:00.002-05:00

I am so excited that I couldn't wait to Blog about the new Monet's Palate™ website that I am creating with the help of a genious designer named Jacob Timmons . I am working every day to make the world of Monet's Palate™ more present on the web and to entertain all those who visit that world. I JUST completed the Story Board for a FLASH film that Jacob will help to create. I also just licensed the most beautiful rendition of Debussy's Arabesque by the famed arranger Patrick Smith..click HERE to give a listen, Debussy was Claude Monet's favorite composer. If all goes as planned the new MONETSPALATE.COM will be launched sometime in February. Please check back here or just be surprised perhaps the next time you visit us. CHEERS Aileen Bordman

Alice Waters: The Art of Simple Food

2007-10-09T15:12:00.004-04:00

October 9, 2007 Alice Waters - The Founder and passionate leader of the Sustainable Food Movement and Culinary Icon has after founding Chez Panisse 36 years ago just released her ninth and final book called The Art of Simple Food. Alice Waters changed the American Palate. When I filmed Alice for Monet's Palate she spoke with the same passion about the butter of Normandy..she says " butter and then thinks for a few moments and then says REALLY GOOD BUTTER" as she does for the simple but exquisite ingredients that make up the recipes in this wonderful new book - Aileen Bordman

Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris

2007-10-05T18:28:00.004-04:00

They say a picture tells a thousand words. I have JUST returned from Paris and spent cherished moments at Musée de l’Orangerie. Monet's Water lilies or as they are called in French Les Nymphéas are on display in their new showcase...do go if you can and see them, I promise you will be transported - Aileen Bordman 日本华

MONET'S PALATE™ CLAUDE MONET

2007-08-15T10:34:00.005-04:00

MONET'S PALATE™ - A GASTRONOMIC VIEW FROM THE GARDENS OF GIVERNY - CLAUDE MONET

2007-08-09T19:55:00.005-04:00

CLICK ABOVE AND ENJOY A FEW MOMENTS OF MY FILM - MONET'S PALATE™ - A GASTRONOMIC VIEW FROM THE GARDENS OF GIVERNY INCLUDING MERYL STREEP, ALICE WATERS, DANIEL BOULUD, STEVE WYNN, MICHEL RICHARD, ANNE WILLAN, JOACHIM PISSARRO AND THE ART, GARDENS, HOME AND CUISINE OF CLAUDE MONET. Toast to Monet! VISIT www.monetspalate.com- Aileen Bordman

MONET'S PALATE™ SUPPORTS BETTE MIDLER CHARITY AUCTION AS DOES MERYL STREEP

2007-05-25T15:30:00.002-04:00

MONET'S PALATE™ SUPPORTS LIVE AUCTION FOR BETTE MIDLER'S NYRP

SPRING PICNIC May 22, 2007 to Jun 8, 2007

AN AUTOGRAPHED COPY OF MONET'S PALATE

BY MERYL STREEP INCLUDED IN LOT

Auction includes items donated by Monet's Palate, Lorraine Bracco, John Lithgow, Bette Midler, Meryl Streep, American Airlines and Aileen Bordman

MONET'S PALATE SUPPORTS GILDA'S CLUB GILDA RADNER CHARITY AUCTION

2007-05-16T17:57:00.005-04:00

ON- LINE AUCTION MONET'S PALATE™ IS PARTICIPATING IN A LIVE AUCTION FOR GILDA'S HOUSE

NOW LIVE through May 23rd, 2007

Lot Sponsors include Monet's Palate, Lexus, American Airlines, Ellen DeGeneres, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Christian Dior, Jimmy Choo, Donna Karan Started in the memory of Gilda Radner - Aileen Bordman

Monet's Palate™ Aileen Bordman- The Bergen Record

2007-02-20T08:56:00.001-05:00

Click on book to purchase

Monet's Palate and Aileen Bordman mentioned today in The Bergen Record with respect to the new book by Marci Alboher..click here: THE BERGEN RECORD

MONET'S PALATE™ MERYL STREEP ON-LINE

2007-02-06T19:11:00.001-05:00

THANK YOU MERYL STREEP ON-LINE FOR THAT WONDERFUL POST ABOUT MONET'S PALATE ™ A GASTRONOMIC VIEW FROM THE GARDENS OF GIVERNY - AILEEN BORDMAN VISIT: http://www.merylstreeponline.net/news.html