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The making of Van Gogh as an artist came at a terrible cost

19 April 2025 9:00 am

In the manic years 1886-88 when he lived with his brother in Paris, Vincent worked at fever-pitch, exhausting himself and Theo and driving them both towards insanity

Can VR help to sell art to kids?

10 April 2021 9:00 am

Some pictures are now so mediated that their actual physicality has long been dwarfed by a million reproductions. The ‘Mona…

Moving pictures: ‘Achaean’, 1981, by Bridget Riley

Snap, crackle and op

2 September 2017 9:00 am

Stand in front of ‘Fall’, a painting by Bridget Riley from 1963, and the world begins to quiver and dissolve.…