Vincent Van Gogh

10 Artists Who Died Too Young

Posted 05.24.2012

In "Finding Francesca Woodman," Jillian Steinhauer writes about the morbid fascination with the young photographer's suicide. This got us thinking abo...

Big News For NY Van Gogh Fans

Posted 04.06.2012

East coasters rejoice, after 40 years in California one of Van Gogh's most iconic portraits is taking a trip to New York. "Portrait of a Peasant" will...

Israeli Photographer Takes Classic Paintings For A Spin

Posted 04.05.2012

Israeli photographer Tamir Sher decided to use his old record player to remix the classics. Except instead of taking an old Zeppelin LP for a spin, he...

PHOTOS: Artist's Famous Flowers Were Mutants, Gene Study Says

| Ferris Jabr | Posted 03.30.2012

The word “sunflower” brings to mind a mane of vibrant yellow petals encircling a dark whorl of seeds. But not all sunflowers are alike. Some sunfl...

Happy Birthday, Van Gogh!

Posted 03.30.2012

Happy 159th Birthday to one of the most recognizable artists of modern times, Vincent van Gogh. While his artwork is revered by more than just art lov...

The Art World's Unsolved Mysteries

MutualArt | Posted 05.22.2012

MutualArt

Murder, theft, and hidden identity describe just a few mysteries confounding the art world. The business side of Art can get messy, especially when the stakes are high. How did a billionaire legally "steal" a $10 million painting?

They Wrote Too??!

Posted 03.12.2012

We know that you've probably read an artist's biography or two, but have you ever read artists' own account of their lives? Let us provide you with th...

Best Art-Historical Real Estate

Posted 03.07.2012

Welcome to the HuffPost Arts tour of the best real estate of all time, art-history style. We know the market is tough right now but we assure you thes...

Recreating Famous Works Of Art

Posted 12.21.2011

Adobe partnered with Booooooom to create a contest that seems ready-made for the internet. The challenge: Recreate a classic work of art. Scores of pe...

Edvard Munch and Personal Art

David Galenson | Posted 02.19.2012

David Galenson

In a 1999 essay, Ernst van de Wetering, professor of art history at the U. of Amsterdam and chairman of the Rembrandt Research Project, noted that Rembrandt had painted himself at least 40 times, had etched himself 31 times, and had drawn a handful of self-portraits.

In Praise of Shorter Classics: I Cut 13,000 Words From A Christmas Carol. And I'll Do It to More.

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 02.07.2012

Jesse Kornbluth

Books change over time, and over 170 years, A Christmas Carol has changed more than most. The story is a slow starter. There's a lot of extraneous description. So this former English major hacked 15,000 words out of Charles Dickens' immortal novel.

Chasing Van Gogh's Dream

Christian Josi | Posted 01.30.2012

Christian Josi

A revolutionary new app aims to further the medium while helping to grant Vincent's one true wish.

Billy Childish Talks Van Gogh And His Definition Of The Word "Amateur"

Susan Michals | Posted 01.13.2012

Susan Michals

Billy Childish is a renaissance man with quite a sense of humor and his painterly style has been compared to that of Van Gogh and German expressionists, such as Edvard Munch.

Was Vincent Van Gogh Murdered?

Benjamin Hart | Posted 12.16.2011

For 121 years, it has been widely accepted that Vincent Van Gogh killed himself in a field in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, ending a troubled, solitary lif...

Was Van Gogh Murdered?

latimes.com | Posted 12.14.2011

Having won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for biography for "Jackson Pollock: An American Saga," Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith will be back in bookst...

PHOTO: Guess The Artist!

Posted 12.12.2011

Who painted this lady sitting in the bathtub? Was it an Impressionist piece, or simply an impression of one? The answer may surprise you. Vote now...

Museumageddon Puts Amsterdam Tourism At Risk

Posted 11.22.2011

Visitors to the Dutch capital next year intending to visit its three leading art museums will need to plan their trip carefully—or they might be dis...

SLIDESHOW: Artists Gone Wild

Posted 11.20.2011

Artists are often eccentric; that's part of their appeal. But there's a fine line between eccentricity and hide-your-kids lunacy, and the artists in t...

Art Dealer Arrested For $2 Million Of Fake Art

Posted 11.16.2011

Is the signature on your Monet a little too legible? It could be a fake; word is they're going around. A former art dealer was arrested in South F...

Detainees, Discoveries & Dads: Highlights This Week

Posted 08.24.2011

It's been a busy week here on the HuffPost Arts': Walmart heiress Alice Walton is opening her own art museum, detained artist Ai Weiwei was finally re...

Museum Uncovers Van Gogh's Only Painting Of His Brother Theo

AP | Posted 08.21.2011

AMSTERDAM -- The Van Gogh Museum said Tuesday its experts now believe one of Vincent van Gogh's paintings previously thought to be a self-portrait act...

Paris in the Time of the Impressionists

David Galenson | Posted 07.31.2011

David Galenson

In an essay written in the 1930s, the poet Paul Valéry reflected on an extraordinary era: Degas plus Renoir; Monet plus Cézanne; and in the same way...

WATCH: Van Gogh Restoration As Performance Art

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 07.26.2011

CINCINNATI -- An art historian has put himself on display at an Ohio museum as he works to restore an 1890 painting by Vincent van Gogh. Visitors t...

A Sour Note at Carnegie Hall Few Heard, Coming From Above

John Farr | Posted 07.17.2011

John Farr

The Carnegie Studios made it possible for artists to live as true bohemians: to enjoy the freedom of being deliciously different and quirky. I suppose it was simply too good to last.

New Book Explores Van Gogh's Doctor

AP | By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL | Posted 06.18.2011

-- "Leaving van Gogh" (Spiegel & Grau), by Carol Wallace: Although he merely dabbled with paint and brush, French physician Paul Gachet occupies a si...