Vincent van Gogh is a famous artist known for his paintings and a very sad event in his life where he cut off his own ear. Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in the Netherlands, to a ...

The hospital in Arles where Vincent van Gogh stayed after he cut off his ear (photograph by the author for Hyperallergic) Vincent van Gogh had big dreams for his stay in the town of Arles, for the ...

Vincent van Gogh’s story often feels like a myth painted in bold colors—an artist so consumed by passion that it spilled over into madness. The image of him bandaged and staring back from his ...

Vincent van Gogh, “The Night Café” (1888), oil on canvas (Yale University Art Gallery, via Wikimedia Commons) Shortly before Christmas, 1888, as the story goes, while living in Arles, France, and ...

Encore Wednesday, Jan.10, 2024 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV + Encores Sunday, Jan. 14 at 10 p.m. and Thursday, Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 Even those with a scant knowledge of art know about the moment when ...

BERLIN – A German museum has put on display a copy of Vincent van Gogh’s ear that was grown using genetic material provided by one of the 19th-century Dutch artist’s living relatives. The Center for ...

Ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying a king’s body ensured his ascent among the gods. The preserved corpse — called the Ach (Egyptian for “shining” or “spirit”) — entered a sarcophagus ...

“You know the painter at Ravoux’s, the one we call Le Rouquin [The Redhead]? He has shot himself with a pistol in the park behind the chateau.” So, recalls 89-year-old Henry Maurage, the news that ...