Van Gogh is back in town.
Or, well, his painting “Starry Night” is back in town… for the first time in 20 years.
It’s part of an exhibit that’s just arrived from New York’s Museum of Modern Art and, according to the very articulate press release, it’s “the first exhibition to focus on Van Gogh’s twilight and nocturnal scenes”. Fancy.
Radio Netherlands’ David Swatling went to the exhibition and then joined Michel and I in studio to tell us a bit about it. You can listen here to our conversation.
And here are a few images that we talk about in that conversation:
De Sterren Nacht (Starry Night), 1889; The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Sterren Nacht Boven De Rohne (Starry Night over the Rhone), 1888; Musée d’Orsay, Paris
De Aardappeleters (The Potato Eaters), 1885; Van Gogh Museum (Vincent van Gogh Stichting)
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