from Oscar Wilde to Vincent Van Gogh. But the spirit was banned in most Western nations by 1915. This is a very condensed answer to the complex question, “What is absinthe?” The first part of ...

The night before Christmas Eve 1888, Paul ­Gauguin slipped out of the house he was ­sharing with Vincent Van Gogh to take a walk ... had ordered an absinthe at a local cafe then, without warning ...

The artist Vincent van Gogh is likely to have experienced two episodes of delirium caused by alcohol withdrawal, new research has shown. The post-Impressionist painter, known for works such as ...

were jailed for criminal damage over a similar act of protest at the National Gallery Just Stop Oil supporters have thrown soup over two Vincent van Gogh paintings, hours after two activists were ...

Several traveling immersive exhibits are giving art lovers a larger-than-life view of some of Vincent van Gogh’s most famous ... cushions to play rooms and absinthe bars, whichever you visit ...

From throwing cans of soup to being thrown in the can. Two paintings in Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” series were damaged by soup-tossing climate protesters in London Friday — in ...

They were hoorays down from Paris. Van Gogh himself cut a sorry figure, shambling, smelly, addicted to absinthe, toothless. White Smith and Naifeh’s book, Van Gogh: The Life, refers to an ...

He really did gogh the extra mile. “The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric ...

Over eight themed rooms in the gallery, there’s an attempt to focus on Van Gogh’s imaginative transformations. Groups of Van Gogh’s most ambitious canvases and works on paper explore the ...

By Emily LaBarge Reviewing from London The two vivid portraits — the poet and the lover — hang together in the first room of the exhibition, as they did above van Gogh’s bed in the so-called ...