David Hockney 25’ is imbued with the same sense of freedom and play that defines the British artist’s earliest works ...

In art and life, Van Gogh “needed depth, something that spoke to his heart, that relieved his loneliness and reassured him he was still part of the human community,” says Unger. Misunderstood in ...

What do creativity and social bonds have to do with one another? The brain opioid theory helps us understand how creativity ...

Van Gogh’s pictures only occasionally come onto the market and, not surprisingly, they fetch huge sums. The odd one is sold privately through a dealer, usually very discreetly—but in a typical ...

In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in southern France. Though the period was famously tumultuous for the Dutch artist, it was also remarkably productive: He befriended Joseph ...

On 23 December, 1888, the day that Vincent van Gogh mutilated his ear and presented the severed portion to a sex worker, he was tended to by an unlikely soulmate: the postman Joseph Roulin.

Attributing a work to the artist generally requires authentication by the Van Gogh Museum, but lawsuits and an influx of requests have made it reassess that role. By Nina Siegal Reporting from ...

By examining the remains of pigment-containing structures called melanosomes, the researchers have been able to uncover what colour the fur of these animals might have been. Despite coming from ...