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Absinthe: what the ban on France’s aromatic spirit teaches us about modern day blaming and shaming

The potent emerald-green blend of wormwood, green anise and fennel, known as “the Green Fairy,” was once celebrated by the French society, including artists from Baudelaire to Van Gogh. By the early 1900s, France consumed more absinthe than the rest of the world put together. Yet within decades, it was…

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Why do some people treat the Magic Kingdom and Disney adults like cultural abominations?

If you’ve ever expressed even a passing desire to visit Walt Disney World, you may have had friends who raised their eyebrows, groaned or even sneered.

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Vincent in Brixton review – a radiant portrait of the artist as a young romantic

Van Gogh is a restless soul who finds kinship – and possibly more – with his London landlady in this tender and full-hearted drama

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David Hockney review – a 90-metre vision of nature that only looks great on your phone

The artist has stitched together 100 iPad paintings into a vast digital frieze – but the results risk undermining the pleasure in simple beauty which was his great gift to British art

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My rookie era: I wasn’t immediately good at oil painting, but it taught me to find pleasure in struggle

One week I spent three miserable hours trying to paint a satin ribbon, and went home in a filthy mood

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Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

A groundbreaking Tracey Emin exhibit, Van Gogh through the lens of yellow, and the return of cinema's favourite masked maniac. Here's what to look out for this week.

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Why the mad artistic genius trope doesn’t stand up to scientific scrutiny

Vincent van Gogh sliced off his ear with a knife during a psychotic episode. Ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky developed schizophrenia and spent the last 30 years of his life in hospital. Virginia Woolf lived with bipolar disorder, eventually taking her own life as she felt another deep depression beginning.

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I hope Pokémon's new Natural History Museum card isn't another mistake

Its jumbo size might just keep scalpers at bay this time.

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The Most Expensive Auction Items Sold This Past Year

These are the most expensive auction items sold in 2025.

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Barbra Streisand Says You Should 'Never Sell Art You Love' – These Are The Stunning Works She Has Used to Decorate Her Home Over The Years

From Van Gogh to Klimt, Barbra Streisand has bought and sold an impressive art collection throughout her career – here is the story of some of her pieces

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Belle Époque posters, sex and body art: The most unmissable art exhibitions of 2025

From Belle Époque posters to radical performance art, 2025 delivered exhibitions that pushed boundaries and opened dialogues.

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Turner & Constable review – boiling portentous skies versus two men and a dog

JMW Turner is beaten by John Constable in this mighty show. But who cares when the work is so sublime you can hear the squelching and smell the river?

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Google Gemini 3 has dropped – here are 6 prompts that show what it can do

From agentic planning to interactive visual layouts, these prompts show how to tap into Gemini 3’s biggest upgrades.

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The Guardian view on art and health: the masterpiece can cure the body as well as the soul

Editorial: From a Van Gogh self-portrait to Gauguin’s dreamscapes, new studies show that seeing original art can calm stress and boost health

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It Took Hours Of Painting And Makeup For This Artist To Transform Into Vincent van Gogh For Halloween

Jesse Randell transformed himself into a living version of Vincent van Gogh’s self-portrait step-by-step.

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Jewish heirs sue Met Museum and Greek foundation over Nazi-looted Van Gogh painting

A Jewish couple was forced to leave Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 'Olive Picking' behind when they fled Nazi Germany. The pair's heirs are now fighting for the painting's ownership.

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NYC’s Met is sued by heirs of Jewish family claiming museum’s Van Gogh painting was looted by Nazis

The painting has had several owners since the Nazi’s confiscated it from a Jewish family, a lawsuit claims

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How viewing original artwork could boost your immune system and lower stress

A small experiment found tangible benefits from viewing masterpieces by artists such as Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec, and van Gogh in a gallery.

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Picture of health: going to art galleries can improve wellbeing, study reveals

Viewing original works of art can relieve stress, cut heart disease risk and boost immune system, first study of its kind finds

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“Rabbits Once Attacked Napoleon”: 40 Shocking Stories From History That Are Somehow True

I'm sorry, the rabbits did WHAT to Napoleon?

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Monsters, menopause and bold women – what to see, read and visit this week

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has long served as a parable – a warning against the hubris of playing God, the dangers of motherless creation, reckless parenthood and unchecked scientific ambition. It’s a story that continues to resonate, revealing how little human ego and error have changed over time.

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‘Decision to do this secretly is surprising’: NGV returns painting lost in Nazi era to Jewish family

The museum has declined to answer key questions about the decision to return the artwork, prompting the New York-based researcher who uncovered the story to challenge the NGV’s handling of the case

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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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Sean Scully: Mirroring review – how can a rectangle contain so much suffering?

If you find the fields of colour that Scully has been painting for four decades tranquil, then you haven’t been looking closely enough

The Independent UK

A postman, a family, and an overlooked chair: Van Gogh museum's surprising reunion

The Van Gogh Museum has organized an exhibition this fall shining the spotlight on a postman and his family who modeled for Vincent van Gogh

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