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 ...

It was portrayed as a psychoactive drug and the alcoholic drink of choice among some of the greatest European and American artists of the time, from Oscar Wilde to Vincent Van Gogh. But the spirit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Only Vincent van Gogh could have imagined such a queasy, fulgent haven. The artist, who was born in the Netherlands in 1853, moved to Arles, location of the Yellow House, from Paris in February 1888.

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 ...

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 ...

Well, if you haven’t already got your ticket to the Vincent van Gogh blockbuster at the National Gallery, what are you waiting for? The show hasn’t opened yet but already the critics are ...