Smithsonian Magazine

New Biography Spotlights Jo Bonger, Sister-in-Law Who Helped Rescue van Gogh From Obscurity

Did you know that Vincent van Gogh’s status as an art world giant owes a big thanks to the efforts of one woman? As Hans Luijten, senior researcher at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, writes in a new ...
Smithsonian Magazine

New Book Details the Lives of Vincent van Gogh’s Sisters Through Their Letters

L to R: Anna, the eldest van Gogh sister; Elisabeth, or Lies; and Willemien, the youngest, who was better known as Wil Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Wikimedia Commons under public domain ...
The New York Times

In Detroit, a Look at America’s Passion for van Gogh

This fall, the first U.S. museum to purchase a painting by Vincent van Gogh mounts a comprehensive exhibition of his work. Here’s what to expect. “Van Gogh in America” features 74 works by the beloved ...
Artnet

‘Van Gogh’s Life Was Made for a Novelist’: Author Martin Bailey on the Artist’s Mysterious Last Days—and How He Really Died

Bailey is the author of the new book 'Van Gogh's Finale: Auvers and the Artist's Rise to Fame.' Van Gogh's Finale: Auvers and the Artist's Rise to Fame by Martin Bailey. Courtesy of the Quarto Group.
American Songwriter

Don McLean Revisits “Vincent” 50 Years Later with New Video

In the fall of 1970, Don McLean had a job singing in schools. Playing guitar and singing in classrooms, McLean came across a biography of 19th-century artist Vincent Van Gogh and was immediately ...
Live Science

Did Van Gogh Shoot Himself? Auction of Pistol Reignites Debate.

The auction of a pistol said to have been used by the painter Vincent van Gogh to shoot himself has reignited a debate about who actually pulled the trigger: Did Van Gogh commit suicide, or was he ...