News
It's the dream of any museum to discover that a once dismissed painting in their collection is actually the work of a Master. That scenario recently played out for the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands when a team of researchers from used x-ray techniques to determine that Vincent Van Go
Opinion
LOS ANGELES — Have you ever stood in front of a painting and just wished you could reach out and touch it? Imagine dipping your finger in Monet's lilies and watching them shimmer and come to life as you wave your hand.
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Maybe people are watching too much Law & Order, but the obsession with Vincent van Gogh and his ear, relationship with Paul Gauguin and tortured life are getting a little too much. Now, the latest theory … he was shot by teenage boys from Paris pretending to be American cowboys.
News
A British couple who bought a picture online for £1,500 (roughly US$2,400) may have scored a portrait of the Post-Impressionist master Vincent Van Gogh.
Books
The author Penelope Przekop’s second novel, Centerpieces, is a novel that bravely tries to be a historical fiction about Van Gogh, art and the creative drive, but instead turns out to be a twisted narrative that describes a stifling world of corporate ladder-climbing.
Opinion
You may have heard that Mattel has launched its new Museum Collection of Barbie dolls. Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night," Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" and Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Block-Bauer I," these dolls, which are part of a brand cherished by children the world over, are
Interview
Written from the perspective of Dr. Gachet, Vincent van Gogh's physician, Carol Wallace's Leaving Van Gogh is the fictional story of the famous painter's final months in the French town of Auvers. Based on 902 letters exchanged between Van Gogh and his family and friends, the novel paints the pictur
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You know it was hilariously inevitable that someone was going to cruise the walls of Google Art Project checking out the hotties and collect them all into one place. Well, Chicago Now blogga Taleen Kelenderian just did that and she has labeled her favorites with such hipster-ific monikers as "Ginger
Opinion
We at Hyperallergic know it's close to Halloween because of all the articles giving us last minute costume ideas! Now, a slutty viking or a faux-Gaga meat dress might be fine if you're just going to some random Halloween party with a bunch of normal people. But what if you're going to that special H