Vincent van Gogh

October 2nd 2023

Pokémon Company Apologizes After Van Gogh Collaboration Causes Scalping Mayhem

What was intended to be an educational collaboration with the Van Gogh museum has turned into the latest front in Pokémon 's struggles with the reseller market.

Games James Whitbrook Oct 2

May 31st 2023

Critics Thoroughly Unimpressed With AI-Reimagined Mona Lisa

Adobe's Firefly is being used to expand on the original paintings created by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Vincent van Gogh.

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December 31st 2022

The Viral Eco-Trolls of 2022

Activists glued themselves to buildings and threw soup on art to protest Big Oil and climate inaction.

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November 10th 2022

Microsoft Co-Founder’s Massive Art Collection Sells for Eye-Popping $1.5 Billion

It’s only the start of a sale that includes 150 paintings from Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Georges Seurat.

Tech News Kyle Barr Nov 10

September 14th 2022

Picasso Going on the Auction Block to Fund MoMA’s Potential Push Into NFTs

A $70 million art collection endowed to the museum is being auctioned off, and the proceeds will go towards growing its ‘digital audience.’

Tech News Kyle Barr Sep 14

May 25th 2022

7 Outrageous NFT Heists

It appears that art theft will absolutely continue in the digital world via phishing attacks and unceremonious minting.

Cryptocurrencies Kevin Hurler May 25

May 17th 2022

Lego’s ‘The Starry Night’ Brings Van Gogh’s Most Famous Painting Into the Third Dimension

Another fan-built creation becomes an official Lego building set and a brick-built masterpiece.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 17

October 19th 2021

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The Flash must assemble the League to stop Despero in the five-part event.

Trailers Rob Bricken Oct 19

January 10th 2016

This Fantastic Video Looks At Van Gogh’s Work Ethic For A Lesson In Struggling To Succeed

Adam Westbrook has been putting together some really interesting video essays on the artist world, and for his latest video, he’s put together a really interesting look at Vincent Van Gogh’s work ethic in an era obsessed with popularity. Westbrook looks at the struggles of Van Gogh. We know his work instantly, but what most…

io9 Andrew Liptak Jan 10

October 6th 2015

7,000 Falling Dominoes Make Van Gogh’s Starry Night Even More Beautiful

FlippyCat—easily the most patient YouTube celebrity—spent around 11 hours recreating Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night using 7,067 carefully stacked dominoes that were then sent tumbling in a glorious chain reaction. And thankfully, there was a camera rolling the whole time. FlippyCat actually had to build this setup twice, because the first attempt was foiled when…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 6

May 19th 2015

Take A Virtual 3D Tour Through This Vincent Van Gogh Painting

This fully-immersive 3D version of The Night Café, by Brooklyn animator Mackenzie Cauley, will give you a good sense of what it would be like to live inside a Van Gogh painting. Cauley compiled the piece as part of a competition challenging developers to devise innovative uses of virtual reality. This re-imagining is meant to…

io9 George Dvorsky May 19

February 26th 2015

These Skirts Call to All Art History Lovers

These are a great bargain for any art lover: $65 for ant one of seven designs printed on skirts, available by Retrofolie. Perfectly beautiful. See more below. There are two Klimts, three Muchas, a van Gogh, a Millais, and a Boucher. I want all of them to go with my vast array of black t-shirts.

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Feb 26

August 26th 2014

These Secret Artistic Masterpieces Were Hidden Beneath Other Paintings

Over the centuries, it has been common to reuse canvases and paint over murals, meaning that many great works of art have been lost between layers of paint. Fortunately, modern technology and notes on the originals lets us see those hidden masterpieces once again. The Battle of Anghiari, by Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519), painted in…

io9 Vincze Miklós Aug 26

June 4th 2014

A Replica Of The World’s Most Famous Ear Is Now On Display

A German museum is exhibiting a 3D-printed copy of Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh’s ear grown from the genetic material of a distant relative. Vincent Van Gogh famously cut off his own left ear during a psychotic episode in 1888. Now, the Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe is displaying a replica of this…

io9 George Dvorsky Jun 4

January 24th 2014

Loving Vincent, the First Ever Feature-Length Painted Animation

Imagine, if you will, a feature-length animation about the life and death of post-Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh. Now imagine that the animation is made entirely from paintings created in Van Gogh’s iconic style, and you’re beginning to understand why we’re so excited about Loving Vincent. The movie is currently in production at Oscar-winning studio…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 24

October 2nd 2013

Vincent van Gogh’s never-before-seen sketchbooks

Did you know Vincent van Gogh kept a sketchbook? Several of them, in fact. For years, seven of them were kept at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, hidden away in the institution’s archives. Now, they’ve been unveiled for all the world to see in Molly Oldfield’s The Secret Museum. The first sketch in the Van Gogh…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 2

September 11th 2013

You know that newfound Van Gogh painting has the TARDIS in it, right?

In the 10th episode of the fifth season of Doctor Who, the Doctor visited Vincent Van Gogh and destroyed an alien monster only the artist could see. In real life… well, apparently the same thing happened, because that totally looks like the TARDIS is in that recently revealed new Van Gogh painting. As we mentioned…

io9 Rob Bricken Sep 11

September 10th 2013

Long-lost Van Gogh Painting Recovered from Collector’s Attic

Back in 1908, a Norwegian collector was told that what he thought was a Van Gogh oil landscape was actually a forgery. So he tucked it away in his attic where it languished for six decades. Now, art experts have authenticated the piece — and it is indeed a Van Gogh. It’s not everyday that…

io9 George Dvorsky Sep 10

August 9th 2013

Watch Vincent Van Gogh’s art come to life thanks to 3D animation

Artist Luca Agnani uses 3D animation and visual mapping to bring Vincent Van Gogh’s classic paintings to life. It’s almost a little spooky. [Via The Creator’s Project]

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 9

January 23rd 2013

Vincent van Gogh comes to life when his portrait is transformed into a photograph

Watch Vincent van Gogh’s intense self-portrait transform from colorful oil painting into an intense stare-down, thanks to photographer Tadao Cern. All it took was a bit of Photoshop to morph the 1889 painting into a really intense Facebook profile pic. Watch the magic! If you like this, we’ve featured Cern’s work before — specifically his…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jan 23

Vincent van Gogh

Pokémon Company Apologizes After Van Gogh Collaboration Causes Scalping Mayhem

Critics Thoroughly Unimpressed With AI-Reimagined Mona Lisa

The Viral Eco-Trolls of 2022

Microsoft Co-Founder’s Massive Art Collection Sells for Eye-Popping $1.5 Billion

Picasso Going on the Auction Block to Fund MoMA’s Potential Push Into NFTs

7 Outrageous NFT Heists

Lego’s ‘The Starry Night’ Brings Van Gogh’s Most Famous Painting Into the Third Dimension

DC’s Arrowverse Faces Armageddon in Its New Crossover Trailer

This Fantastic Video Looks At Van Gogh’s Work Ethic For A Lesson In Struggling To Succeed

7,000 Falling Dominoes Make Van Gogh’s Starry Night Even More Beautiful

Take A Virtual 3D Tour Through This Vincent Van Gogh Painting

These Skirts Call to All Art History Lovers

These Secret Artistic Masterpieces Were Hidden Beneath Other Paintings

A Replica Of The World’s Most Famous Ear Is Now On Display

Loving Vincent, the First Ever Feature-Length Painted Animation

Vincent van Gogh’s never-before-seen sketchbooks

You know that newfound Van Gogh painting has the TARDIS in it, right?

Long-lost Van Gogh Painting Recovered from Collector’s Attic

Watch Vincent Van Gogh’s art come to life thanks to 3D animation

Vincent van Gogh comes to life when his portrait is transformed into a photograph

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