Researchers say that the iconic painting's swirling sky lines up with Kolmogorov's theory of turbulence, suggesting that the ...

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 ...

As a result, one can look at "The Starry Night" and see a scientifically accurate representation of turbulent, cascading ...

At London’s National Gallery, a new blockbuster exhibition—“Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers”—is examining van Gogh’s creative output between 1888 and 1990. As he moved between several ...

The work of Van Gogh’s final years when he was struggling with his mental health, shimmer with life, colour and poetic ...

A major exhibition in London focuses on the painter’s final years, finding new feelings in some of his most famous works.

These were the words Vincent van Gogh sent to his brother Theo from Arles on 18 September 1888. He had arrived in ...

The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind when he painted the work in 1889.

Scientists recently analyzed Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night to see how well its famous swirls matched up with known atmospheric physics. After analysis, they found that not only did the shapes ...

Every painting is a "gamble, an experiment, a chucking of artistic caution and convention to the mistral wind". You can feel ...

The work, alongside a $35 million Monet, will headline Christie's inaugural sale at its new Asia headquarters.

Poets & Lovers includes many of his best known pictures and, amazingly, it is the first exhibition the National Gallery has ...