The exhibition reveals Van Gogh’s intense devotion to painting—even through deep sorrow and unbearable hallucinations.

Vincent van Gogh had conflicting emotions when he heard ... Again, this suggests that Vincent’s reaction in the hospital had been cool. The following day, 2 January, Vincent wrote his first ...

On Monday, April 15, a group of people gathered at Blackwells book shop in Oxford for the launch of Bowieland, by poet and author Peter Carpenter. In the book, Mr Carpenter, who was diagnosed with ...

There are tons of different artworks that, when you pose for a picture with them, create a cool optical illusion ... There ...

The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, one of antiquity’s greatest thinkers, was a student of Plato and a tutor to Alexander the Great. Aristotle had insights far ahead of his time; his ...

This created an interesting dynamic for those in Lisdt’s orchestra. Vincent Van Gogh, while a famous synesthete, was likely hindered by the condition more than he was aided by it. Early on in ...

Impressionist's 1890 painting "Tree Roots" has been the subject of five years of legal battles between homeowners and a ...

Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” when he was 36 — in June 1889, near the end of his life, which ended in suicide a year later.

A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, ...

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts offers the first major exhibition devoted to these canvases, featuring 14 of the works Van Gogh ...