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Van Gogh and the Roulins: a family reunion of the artist’s greatest portraits

The Van Gogh Museum’s new exhibition, Van Gogh and the Roulins – Together Again at Last, celebrates an important family reunion. It brings together 14 portraits of the wife and three children of the postman Joseph Roulin – Vincent van Gogh’s closest friend and supporter while he was based in…

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‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light

He has been tarred as a French colonialist who spread syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas. But, writes the author of an acclaimed new book, fresh discoveries challenge this view of the artist – and even show him as a hero

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Keep your head above water: art show looks at the rising seas

From a high chair to the ocean floor, Can the Seas Survive Us? in Norfolk’s Sainsbury Centre explores our watery world and the climate crisis

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The best biographies and memoirs of 2024

Salman Rushdie’s account of his near-fatal stabbing, a 360-degree view of Queen Elizabeth II and Al Pacino’s rags to riches career are among this year’s most compelling personal histories

The Guardian - UK

On the Van Gogh trail in Arles where the secrets (and lies) of the artist’s world are revealed

As a major new Van Gogh exhibition opens at London’s National Gallery, Michael Hodges takes a train to Arles to retrace the famous painter’s steps and discovers a twisty tale where fact merges into fiction and brings a surprising portrait of the artist to life

The Independent UK

Works by Cézanne, Picasso and Matisse headed to Canberra

It seems we can't get enough of European masters.

The Canberra Times

NGA acquires painting by 'nasty piece of work' Gauguin

The National Gallery of Australia has bought a significant artwork by Paul Gauguin, during its exhibition of works by the controversial painter.

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'Key moment': National Gallery of Australia buys Gauguin painting for $9.8m

It's the first Gauguin to enter an Australian public collection.

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Historic speech, fun and Games, and the People's Choice

What to do this weekend in Canberra.

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See Gauguin's art and a girl who glows

A major exhibition, a theatre work for kids and more are on this week.

The Canberra Times

Artist or monster? Mammoth new Gauguin show reckons with colonial legacy – to limited success

The National Gallery of Australia’s exhibition Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao acknowledges the French master’s misdeeds in the Pacific – but just as easily omits or distracts from them

The Guardian - AU

Paul Gauguin was a violent paedophile. Should the National Gallery of Australia be staging a major exhibition of his work?

Should the National Gallery of Australia be staging a major Paul Gauguin exhibition?

The Conversation

The man is not the art? We need to talk about Gauguin

A great painter, but also a misogynist - should it matter?

The Canberra Times

Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night Over the Rhône returns to Arles for the first time in 136 years

The painting is on loan for an exhibition that opens this weekend in the Provençal city where the painter became obsessed with the night sky and eventually descended into madness

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17 Unique Facts About Van Gogh’s Yellow-Hued Series Of Sunflowers

Here are some rare and sunny facts about Vincent van Gogh’s acclaimed paintings of sunflowers. The post 17 Unique Facts About Van Gogh’s Yellow-Hued Series Of Sunflowers first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Tickets now on sale for French art blockbuster

It's the biggest Gauguin show ever to be staged in Australia.

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10 Most Expensive Paintings: Brushstrokes Of Value

In the world of contemporary art, a handful of paintings have attained legendary status through their staggering prices at auction. These masterpieces, spanning various eras and styles, epitomize artistic excellence and the vision of renowned creators.

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Funding plea for Parisian atelier where Modigliani and Gauguin worked

Atelier 11 in the Cité Falguière, a home and workplace of famous painters and sculptors since the 1870s, needs urgent renovation

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Claudette Johnson: Presence review – subtle swipes at the exploitative modern masters

The artist brilliantly questions depictions of non-white figures by such revered painters as Gauguin and Picasso – but there’s a quiet power to her new work that leaves theory behind

The Guardian - UK

After the British Museum thefts, what other major art heists have there been?

One Rembrandt has been stolen four times, and works by Van Gogh, Munch and Picasso have also been targeted by criminals

The Conversation

Pierre Bonnard: the master of shimmering luminosity, who painted difficult paintings and yet made them lucid and accessible

Pierre Bonnard, unlike his older contemporary, Paul Gauguin, never visited Australia, yet Bonnard’s influence on Australian art is pervasive and profound.

France 24

Discovering France's most beautiful hiking paths

Of the 370 long-distance hiking paths that criss-cross the French countryside, some in particular stand out. In Finistère, on the Atlantic, the Chemin du Pouldu merges with the Brittany coast. Its contrasts of green and blue have inspired many artists, such as French painter Paul Gauguin. Down in the Cévennes,…

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From Infinity Pool to Succession: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether it’s an icky shocker from a body-horror scion or a warring dynasty of uber-rich media scumbags, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

Evening Standard

After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art at the National Gallery review: an artistic explosion

This was a time when art really was everything everywhere all at once

The Guardian - UK

After Impressionism review – radical ideas and ecstatic sex from the edge of a new universe

Cézanne outshines Van Gogh, with Picasso his revolutionary pupil, in this absorbing hurtle toward modern art – smashing 500 years of tradition into cubist shards

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