Marking its 200th anniversary, the National Gallery in London is hosting a groundbreaking exhibition dedicated to the Dutch master Vincent van Gogh. Titled “Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers,” this highly anticipated event also celebrates the centenary of the gallery’s acquisition of two
Amid the green hills and meadows of central Bosnia, a local businessman has brought his long-held dream to life: recreating Vincent van Gogh’s iconic painting, “The Starry Night,” as a nature park. Halim Zukic, from the town of Visoko, had envisioned creating
On an otherwise unremarkable October afternoon in 2022, a pair of activists brought a splash of tomato red to the National Gallery in London. Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, members of the protest group Just Stop Oil, made headlines when they hurled
The first known painting by Vincent van Gogh to depict the outdoors is joining the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting has been given to the museum thanks to the executive producer of Law & Order. Absent from everyone’s
As an artist Vincent van Gogh’s was going through a huge creative process during his final months as he was struggling with mental health issues. That intense period of creativity is being examined in a new exhibition at Paris’ renowned Musée d’Orsay.
A Van Gogh painting that was stolen from the Singer Laren Museum in the Netherlands in March 2020 has been recovered. Missing for three and a half years, “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring” (1884), also referred to as “Spring Garden,”
On September 20, Christie’s auction house officially opened its new Asia Pacific headquarters in The Henderson, a newly developed office building in Hong Kong’s Central district. This is Christie’s third major auction house to expand its footprint in the city, following Phillips
London’s National Gallery has just scored a monumental acquisition for its 200th anniversary, finally securing a work by the Dutch-born Victorian master Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. The painting, After the Audience (1879), was brokered through Christie’s, with the museum paying £2 million to
In a morning conference call with reporters, Christie’s CEO Guillaume Cerutti and other executives provided an overview of the auction house’s performance for the first half of the year. In summary, the results were disappointing. Christie’s recorded auction sales totaling $2.1 billion
Few things shape the human experience as profoundly or as pervasively as creativity does. So begins Elliot Paul Samuel and Dustin Stokes in their seminal article published in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2024 Edition). The authors delve into the philosophical
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