The quality of the work from the last two years of van Gogh’s life is astonishing, as is the speed with which he painted these pictures. I enthusiastically recommend this exhibition to anyone who appreciates art.
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“From today, painting is dead,” the academic painter Paul Delaroche is purported to have said after seeing a daguerreotype for the first time. But it just won’t die and the…
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Glasstire has written much about Marizio Cattelan’s solid eighteen karat gold toilet (here, here, here, and here), from its year-long installation in the fourth-floor restroom of the Guggenheim Museum, to…
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It took more than six years and 125 artists, but Loving Vincent is finally being shown by The Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Film department this weekend. Loving Vincent is…
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For those who mourn the passing of Work of Art, Bravo’s brilliant and depressing reality show version of art grad school (with art critic Jerry Saltz as a prof), there’s…
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A deep interest in aliens is so much a part of our culture that we have movie after movie (not to mention television, novels, comic books…) enthralling us with stories of other worlds and extraterrestrial life.
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There are a number of YouTube videos with lessons on how to paint like Vincent van Gogh, such as this one and this one. Filmmakers Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman…
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One of the most famously weird stories in art history is the tale of Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 psychotic episode during which he chopped off his own ear and presented…