Vincent van Gogh

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Van Gogh hospital paintings to be shown together in London for the first time
Works created after artist’s ear mutilation incident go on display at the Courtauld Gallery next month

Jamie Grierson

26, Jan, 2025 @6:14 PM

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Starry nights and magic mushrooms: pulling an all-nighter at London’s Van Gogh exhibition
As the National Gallery’s sell-out Poets and Lovers draws to a close, the Observer joins the crowd in the early hours of the morning

Andrew Anthony

18, Jan, 2025 @3:10 PM

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Climate activists who target artworks ‘using Suffragette tactics’, says artist
Alex Margo Arden says ‘symbolic damage’ helped force public conversation about climate crisis

Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

14, Jan, 2025 @4:53 PM

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LA fires could test Getty Center’s claim of being safest place to store artwork
Museum team says no current plans to move prominent pieces from center deemed ‘marvel of anti-fire engineering’

Richard Luscombe

12, Jan, 2025 @7:26 PM

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National Gallery pulls all-nighter for Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers final weekend
Tickets for night-time slots on 17 January go on sale as gallery opens for 24 hours for second time in its history

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

09, Jan, 2025 @12:10 PM

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Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers review – blockbuster portrait of a thoughtful master
Exhibition on Screen’s latest gallery documentary offers a walkthrough of the National Gallery’s winter show, complete with extras

Andrew Pulver

05, Nov, 2024 @2:15 PM

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Van Gogh’s smoking skeleton and Munch’s sickly sex-scapes: great artists’ ghoulish sides revealed
A show of unfamiliar works by the pioneers of modern art shows that they weren’t immune to the lure of darkness and horror – and that gothic is the style that never dies

Stephen Smith

31, Oct, 2024 @9:50 AM

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Lidia Thorpe protest reminds me of Keir Hardie’s in 1894 | Brief letters
Brief letters: Pontypridd colliery disaster | Van Gogh worth the wait | A macabre José Saramago tale | Expertise in death

25, Oct, 2024 @4:44 PM

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French finesse can deter buffet gluttons | Brief letters
Brief letters: A warning sign | Queuing for Van Gogh | NHS passports | Paddington Bear’s passport | Fitting F-words for Trump

24, Oct, 2024 @4:50 PM

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Vincent van Gogh’s Arles: visiting the pretty Provençal city that inspired his greatest masterpieces
The scenes of some of the paintings currently on show in London’s National Gallery can still be found in the southern French city

Claudia Pritchard

06, Oct, 2024 @10:00 AM

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Van Gogh is turning in his grave at the harsh Just Stop Oil sentence. I know, because I spoke to him | Nadya Tolokonnikova
Nature was the painter’s ultimate muse, and he would have admired those seeking to protect it, says activist Nadya Tolokonnikova

Nadya Tolokonnikova

03, Oct, 2024 @12:23 PM

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The Starry Night: Van Gogh’s masterpiece is beautiful – but also surprisingly scientifically accurate
The artist died before the theory of turbulence was even created. So how are the whirls and eddies in his 1889 painting so spookily spot-on?

18, Sep, 2024 @3:06 PM

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