Van Gogh belongs in TK Maxx
Also this week: listening to music like a teenager, and my mortarboard vs the menopause
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Van Gogh in the yellow house
The artist moved to Arles in 1888 full of optimism. The National Gallery’s major new exhibition, “Poets and Lovers”, selects…
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The perils of artists’ posthumous fame
Also this week: Philip Larkin’s “ecclesiastical journeys”, and general election date intel.
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Van Gogh would have loved his soup-covered Sunflowers – and so should we
Safe protest stunts raise the profile of the climate crisis and ask us to think about the bigger picture.
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2022: the year in art
The year ahead offers old and new masters alongside a full awkward-squad of painters.
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Amsterdam: Van Gogh’s wet paint under a microscope, and the world’s most silent tourists
As if all this emotion isn’t enough, the next day I visit the Anne Frank Museum. The experience is much…
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Gaugin and Van Gogh’s social networks
As their portraits show, two of art’s supposed “great loners” were deeply social painters.
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