Goghs

If you've noticed your favorite Van Goghs getting darker, it's not because you've caught the troubled Dutch painter's depression.

Chemists Called in as Van Gogh's Pigments Darken The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

A visit to an exhibit of Van Gogh paintings with Arlene "Barring a miracle, this would be the last time either of them would see these big Van Goghs" provides Emily with a vision that lifts her from her end of winter depression, providing anew a force of movement, of looking forward: "How strange that his choice of color, made so long ago, was waiting to dispel her gloom at just that moment."

Nina Sankovitch: Surrounded by Life: Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan Nina Sankovitch 2011

There aren't any Van Goghs there, but just walking the streets is beautiful.

Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day 2010

If you've noticed your favorite Van Goghs getting darker, it's not because you've caught the troubled Dutch painter's depression.

Chemists Called in as Van Gogh's Pigments Darken The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

Perhaps in the midst of the heat wave, when comfort trumps fashion, a desire to gaze upon clothes made of heavy, uncomfortable fabrics, leathers, and metals overtakes museum-goers otherwise content to gaze upon Renoirs and Van Goghs.

Leora Tanenbaum: Wear Comfortable Shoes! Long Lines at Met's McQueen Exhibit Leora Tanenbaum 2011

The Chinese artist ends up working in one of the "art factories" in southern China, painting 15 fake Van Goghs a day.

Christina Patterson: The Ugly Side of Our Globalised World Christina Patterson 2011

Painting 15 fake Van Goghs, or even 25 fake Van Goghs, may well be better than making touch screens for smartphones, where you have to stand in silence for 12-hour shifts, and sleep in dormitories surrounded by wire netting, so you don't kill yourself, which you might otherwise be tempted to do, but it doesn't, at least from the depiction on the Barbican stage, look like very much fun.

Christina Patterson: The Ugly Side of Our Globalised World Christina Patterson 2011

Perhaps in the midst of the heat wave, when comfort trumps fashion, a desire to gaze upon clothes made of heavy, uncomfortable fabrics, leathers, and metals overtakes museum-goers otherwise content to gaze upon Renoirs and Van Goghs.

Leora Tanenbaum: Wear Comfortable Shoes! Long Lines at Met's McQueen Exhibit Leora Tanenbaum 2011

The market for fake Van Goghs in this country isn't quite as big as the market for iPhones, or iPads, or laptops, or handbags, or pretty much everything that's made in China and sold here for a song.

Christina Patterson: The Ugly Side of Our Globalised World Christina Patterson 2011

Perhaps in the midst of the heat wave, when comfort trumps fashion, a desire to gaze upon clothes made of heavy, uncomfortable fabrics, leathers, and metals overtakes museum-goers otherwise content to gaze upon Renoirs and Van Goghs.

Leora Tanenbaum: Wear Comfortable Shoes! Long Lines at Met's McQueen Exhibit Leora Tanenbaum 2011