Tag: Vincent van Gogh
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Culture – A stolen Van Gogh is on display for the first time after being returned in an Ikea bag
First modification: 02/13/2024 – 01:59 'Rectoral Garden in Nuenen in Spring', a painting from 1884 and whose value is estimated at up to $6.4 million, had been stolen in a daring robbery in the middle of the pandemic. But three and a half years later, it reappeared in the hands of Arthur Brand, a detective…
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Can an AI Van Gogh help bring more people to museums?
PARIS — For someone who is dead, Vincent van Gogh has been incredibly busy. Immersive theaters in cities like Miami and Milan flourish with projections of their swirling landscapes. His designs now appear on everything from sneakers to doormats, and a recent collaboration with the Pokémon game franchise was so popular that buyers stampeded into…
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Van Gogh and the search for color on the banks of the Seine
Between May and July 1887, Vincent van Gogh executed nearly 40 paintings during his stay in Paris, where he lived with his brother Theo before moving to the city of Arles a year later. Every morning, he left the Parisian apartment they shared in the Montmartre neighborhood. He walked about five kilometers with his canvas,…
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Attacks on works of art: How museums protect themselves against activists
When the paintings are lucky, the throwing of porridge and soup at paintings will soon be over. It shouldn’t have escaped the notice of the climate activists who began taping themselves to the frames of precious paintings in the summer of 2022 that their actions are now being made fun of. After the tomato soup…
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Environmental activists throw tomato soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
First modification: 10/15/2022 – 04:41 The protesters belong to the Just Stop Oil organization and were detained by the local police. The event took place at the National Gallery in London. The two activists were accused of malicious damage and aggravated trespassing. Two tomato cans were thrown into the famous painting Sunflowers by the Dutch…
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Video: environmentalists damage Van Gogh’s renowned work by throwing a can of soup at him
Crime against art or environmental protest? ‘The Sunflowers’, the famous oil painting made by the Dutch painter Vincent van Goghwas the victim of an attack by two environmental protesters this Friday, at the National Gallery in London, England. (Also read: Auctioned for 13 million euros an unknown painting by Van Gogh). “Is art worth more…
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Hidden Van Gogh self-portrait discovered in Scotland
First modification: 07/14/2022 – 23:38 A Scottish museum has discovered a more than a century-old self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh on the back of another painting by the Dutch painter. It was covered in layers of glue and cardboard that would have been added before an exhibition in the early 20th century. It is an…
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Return after Corona break: Circus Roncalli starts again
Edo nothing for a year. Bernhard Paul, the director and founder of the Roncalli circus, had always wished for that. In the spring of 2020, this wish came true – but in a different way than Paul had imagined. After the successful dress rehearsal of the new program “All for Art for All” in March…
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Movie “Tove”: Not really decided on a gender
fArtist biographies tend to focus on their best-known facets. So in the cinema, Vincent van Gogh goes into a clinch with Paul Gauguin (“Lust for Life” with Kirk Douglas, 1956), Virginia Woolf goes into the water (“The Hours” with Nicole Kidman, 2002), Alfred Hitchcock shoots “Psycho” (“Hitchcock” with Anthony Hopkins, 2012) – to take just…