One week I spent three miserable hours trying to paint a satin ribbon, and went home in a filthy mood
Read more summer essentials
As a five-year-old, I loved fairies, Spice Girls and Vincent van Gogh. …
You are not logged in so some information on this page has been withheld. To see more, please log in or sign up.
Gogh
since
auto-detected in 9 stories
4 days ago
53 days ago
UK arts groups offer therapeutic support to performers as they refute myth of tortured artist ⊕
found
a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
‘You don’t have to be tortured to make great art,’ says founder of mental health support organisation Artist Wellbeing
From Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf, from Nina Simone to Amy Winehouse, the t…
3 months ago
The perplexing rise of protein shakes: how a ‘meaty sludge’ became a billion-dollar industry ⊕
In 1865, the first ever protein-based product consisted of ‘melted-down beef hides and carcasses’. Now, there are countless shakes on the market – including one by a Michelin-starred chef. Why is eve…
Met museum sued by family over allegedly Nazi-looted Van Gogh painting ⊖
New York museum under fire from heirs of Jewish couple allegedly forced to surrender artwork upon fleeing to US
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is being sued by the heirs of a Jewish couple…
6 months ago
Yoga meets Van Gogh in immersive Las Vegas sessions ○
Visitors to Las Vegas can now take part in a yoga class surrounded by the swirling colours of Vincent van Gogh’s most famous works, projected floor-to-ceiling.
7 months ago
Humble peasants … or an odyssey of sex and death? The Millet masterpiece that electrified modern art ○
Van Gogh saw compassion for the rural worker; Dalí saw phalluses and a child’s grave. As The Angelus comes to the UK, our critic celebrates a painting so deep it could even induce hallucinations
It wa…
8 months ago
Kiefer/Van Gogh review – Anselm puts the nightmare into Vincent’s sunflower visions ○
found
a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Royal Academy, London
The Dutch artist looks like a prophet of the Holocaust when viewed through the 80-year-old German painter’s dark lens in this startling show, which makes you see how Van Gogh mig…
10 months ago
Hiroshige’s peerless prints, McCartney’s unseen snaps and Vancouver’s blue skies – the week in art ○
Van Gogh’s favourite Japanese artist is at the British Museum, Lisa Milroy’s memories of Canada are on show in London, and new thresholds are crossed by Do Ho Suh – all in your weekly dispatch
Hiroshi…
13 months ago
Stand up and be counted: six ways to protest that will make your voice heard ○
found
a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The current wave of marches and activism around the world is the largest in documented history, giving scientists the chance to study what makes for a successful campaign
On 27 September last year, th…
page 1 of 1