Should we be posthumously diagnosing the long dead with mental health conditions we have no way of proving? Probably not, but Vincent Van Gogh’s mental state has been a topic of rampant speculation ...

The hospital in Arles where Vincent van Gogh stayed after he cut off his ear (photograph by the author for Hyperallergic) Vincent van Gogh had big dreams for his stay in the town of Arles, for the ...

Scholars still debate the artist's motive. Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889) by Vincent Van Gogh. Collection of Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via ...

Ask any schoolchild or museum tourist to name one thing about artist Vincent Van Gogh and chances are it won’t be “Starry Night” or any of his other masterpieces. Van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait with ...

Most anyone who's had a beginning art history class knows the story of how the great Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh sliced off part of his left ear during a fit of madness. Now a team of German ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The star of a new exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum is not one of the Dutch painter's flamboyant masterpieces, but a rough sketch by a junior French provincial doctor.

Using cells from a relative of the famous tortured artist, plus a 3D printer, the ear lost by the artist can "hear" once again. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family ...

There is a standard joke that the musically illiterate have “Vincent van Gogh’s ear for music,” but van Gogh himself actually studied the piano briefly and took music very seriously. Van Gogh’s Ear is ...

Encore Wednesday, Jan.10, 2024 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV + Encores Sunday, Jan. 14 at 10 p.m. and Thursday, Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 Even those with a scant knowledge of art know about the moment when ...

The exhibit, which may head to New York next year, allows visitors to speak into the ear — grown in Boston from DNA of the artist's relative — through a microphone. By The Associated Press Van Gogh's ...

A copy of Vincent van Gogh's ear grown using some of the Dutch artist's genetic material has gone on display at a German museum. The ear, which is on display at the Centre for Art and Media in ...