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December 2012
Van Gogh Europe a New Endeavor
29 European partners, from three countries, work to make Vincent Van Gogh’s heritage available to the public in a contemporary way.
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November 2012
Van Gogh Letter to Be Auctioned
Profiles in History will be auctioning off over 300 historic documents in an upcoming online and phone auction on December 18. The documents include a letter written by Vincent Van Gogh in 1890 to Joseph and Marie Ginoux, proprietors of the Café de la Gare.
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Letter of Hope
A letter written by Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin and sent to Emile Bernard, has surfaced and will be auctioned by Christie’s auction house in Paris on December 12-13. The letter discusses the friendship, future plans, and hope of a utopian artist community the men shared.
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October 2012
Van Gogh’s Peasant and Munch’s Scream Both in New York
If you’re going to be in New York both Vincent Van Gogh’s painting, Portrait of Patience Escalier, and Edvard Munch’s The Scream are on loan to museums just 20 blocks apart.
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Van Gogh Exhibit Opens in Denver
The long awaited “Becoming Van Gogh” exhibit opened on October 25, 2012 at the Denver Art Museum. The exhibition features over 80 Van Gogh pieces from around the world. The exhibit is exclusive to the DAM.
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September 2012
Van Gogh Museum to Close Temporarily
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam will close temporarily on September 24, 2012 while the building undergoes renovations. If all goes as planned, the museum is expected to re-open on April 25, 2013.
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Vincent Van Gogh the Peasant Painter
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has just released a new YouTube video discussing Van Gogh’s paintings of peasants, in particular his famous The Potato Eaters.
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August 2012
Vincent Van Gogh Color Blind?
A new tool developed by Japanese vision expert, Kazunori Asada, suggests that Van Gogh might have been color blind. Asada’s “Color Vision Experience Room” is a simulator that makes it possible to experience color the way people with varying degrees of colorblindness do.
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New Colors Discovered in Van Gogh’s Undergrowth with Two Figures
Researchers at the Indianapolis Museum of Art Conservation Science Laboratory helped to discover that many of the white flowers in Undergrowth with Two Figures used to be a vivid pink.
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A Hair in a Painting May Equal a Van Gogh?
A red hair that may have belonged to Vincent Van Gogh was pulled from a painting which owners argue is an original Van Gogh. DNA testing may help to determine if Still Life with Peonies is actually a Van Gogh original.
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Norton Simon Museum Brings in a Van Gogh
The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California will host a Van Gogh self-portrait from 1889 on loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The exhibit will be open for three months beginning December 7.
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July 2012
Van Gogh to Kandinsky Opens at the National Galleries of Scotland
The exhibition Van Gogh to Kandinsky | Symbolist Landscape
in Europe 1880 -1910 opened at the National Galleries of Scotland on July 14 and
will run until October 14, 2012.
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June 2012
New Discoveries about Van Gogh
A previously unknown letter written by Vincent Van Gogh has
recently been discovered by researchers at the Van Gogh Museum. In the fourth
volume of the Van Gogh Studies series, Van Gogh: New Findings, discusses
the letter as well as other new discoveries and insights into the life and work
of Van Gogh.
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May 2012
Pollard Willow Finds a New Home
Van Gogh’s watercolour Pollard Willow has been
purchased and added to the collection at the Van Gogh Museum.
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March 2012
New Van Gogh Painting Discovered
Still Life with Meadow Flowers and Roses, was
formerly believed to be a work by an anonymous artist until the painting was more
carefully examined with x-ray technologies which revealed a painting of two
wrestlers under the still life of flowers. A letter to Van Gogh’s brother,
Theo, told more of the story.
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Van Gogh’s Sunflower Genetic Variation
University of Georgia scientists have discovered the gene
mutation which caused the strange sunflowers depicted in several of Van Gogh’s
sunflower paintings.
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October 2011
Van Gogh Stars on 60 Minutes
60 Minutes, on CBS, looks into the life and death of artist
Vincent Van Gogh and discusses a new biography which considers that he may not
have taken his own life.
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Van Gogh Self-Portrait Believed to be Theo
A Van Gogh painting previously believed to be a
self-portrait of the artist is now believed to be the only known painting of
his brother, Theo.
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February 2011
Van Gogh’s Yellows Turning Brown
The striking yellows in Van Gogh’s paintings are turning to
a dull brown hue and researchers have discovered the cause.
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September 2010
Van Gogh: A Brush with Genius
Van Gogh: Brush with Genius, gives some of Van Gogh’s
paintings new life in a documentary that retraces the artist’s steps and
discusses his subject matter and inspiration.
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February 2010
Painting Proved to be Genuine Van Gogh
Le Blute-Fin Mill is the first Van Gogh painting to
be authenticated since 1995. The piece was purchased in 1975 by museum
curator, Dirk Hannema, who claimed it was a Van Gogh but was never able to
prove it.
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December 2009
Van Gogh’s Ear, a New Theory
Van Gogh scholar, Martin Bailey, believes his studies have
determined a new answer to the question of why Van Gogh cut off part of his
ear. Bailey points the finger towards Van Gogh’s own brother, Theo.
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Van Gogh: the Flaming Soul
An exhibition, Van Gogh: the Flaming Soul, opens in Taipei, Taiwan at the National History Museum and runs until March 28th. The
exhibit showcases over 70 drawings and 20 paintings from the Kröller-Müller Museum’s collection.
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Van Goghs Seized
Italian police seized two Van Goghs as well as other
masterpieces in a crackdown on assets of Calisto Tanzi, founder of dairy
company, Parmalat.
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November 2009
Van Gogh Comes to Life
The University of North Texas Dance & Theatre Department
will bring Vincent Van Gogh to life in its production of Vincent in Brixton,
a play based on the early life of artist Van Gogh.
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March 2009
Yale Sues to Keep The Night Café
Yale University has filed a suit to retain ownership of Van
Gogh’s painting The Night Café. A man claiming to be a descendant
Russian industrialist, Ivan Morozov, the paintings former, owner says he has
title to the painting.
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September 2008
Vincent Van GoghHuis
After 30 years of planning, the Vincent Van GoghHuis, a
living art center which pays homage to artist Vincent Van Gogh, opens to the
public.
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July 2008
New Van Gogh Portrait Discovered
A new technique was used on Van Gogh’s painting, Patch of
Grass, which discovered a portrait of a woman under the layers of paint.
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February 2008
Van Gogh Stolen in Zurich
Van Gogh’s Blossoming Chestnut Branches along with pieces by
Cezanne, Degas, and Monet were stolen from the building of the Collection E. G.
Buehrle, in Zuerich, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 11.
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September 2007
Van Gogh's Last Masterpiece goes to Auction
The Fields (Wheat Fields) is going on public auction for the first time. It is believed to be the last painting Vincent did.
April 2007
Van Gogh: Father of German Expressionism?
OK, we'll bite - especially when that's the hook of a wonderful exhibit like the one at the Neue Galerie.
On display in this elegant museum (home to the $135 million Gustav Klimt) are 80 paintings and drawings - more than a third of them van Gogh's - paired with works by the German, Austrian and Russian artists inspired by his broken brush strokes, vivid stabs of color and tormented life.
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March 2007
In Search of Van Gogh
Leonard Nimoy’s Vincent, a one-person play narrated by Van Gogh’s brother Theo, follows the life and times of Vincent Van Gogh.
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Van Gogh's Got Seoul
Ninety of Van Gogh’s works will be shown at a special exhibit in the Seoul Museum of art in November.
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Dirty Work
Why wash your car when you can give your dirty windows the Van Gogh treatment? Artist Scott Wade turns his dirty windows into Van Gogh and Da Vinci replicas.
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Cool Work of Art
A new air conditioner from LG gives you a place to frame a favorite work of art.
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