The Poetry of van Gogh’s Montmartre Years

Christianity had failed him. What next then? Art?  Vincent van Gogh’s life as an artist had the most faltering and rudimentary of beginnings in 1880. By 1890 he was dead, by suicide, at the age of 37. A tempestuous life snuffed out. A Fire in His Soul: Van Gogh,...

What Does Anselm Kiefer Have to Do With Van Gogh? 

LONDON — Demonstrating “influence” between artists is a thorny enterprise. Side-by-side comparisons can often reveal how one individual or movement’s technical practice or iconography was taken up and/or further developed by another, furthering art historical...

Why Did Eco-Activists Get Years in Prison for Only $588 in Damages?

Vincent van Gogh says a little soup is fine, as a treat. (edit Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) In October 2022, many members of the public were shocked when two environmental activists threw Andy Warhol’s favorite soup muse at a Vincent van Gogh painting. New evidence...