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Why Van Gogh Museum is threatening to shut its doors

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The Independent UK

Van Gogh Museum issues closure warning amid government row

The museum has welcomed nearly 57 million visitors, drawn by its priceless collection of works by Vincent van Gogh

The Independent UK

Van Gogh Museum warns of closure unless Dutch state meets €2.5m funding shortfall

The museum is requesting the government provide an extra €2.5 million annually to cover essential upgrades and sustainability measures - stressing that this isn’t just financial support, but a contractual obligation.

Euronews

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Van Gogh Museum 'Could Close' Without More Help From Dutch Govt

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam warned Wednesday that it faced closure without more state funding, saying a 104-million-euro ($120 million) renovation was vital to protect its masterpieces.

International Business Times

The art of the city: a walking tour of Edinburgh’s best landscape sculptures

Start with Andy Goldsworthy’s earthy installations at the Royal Scottish Academy, then head outdoors to discover more of his work, alongside pieces by Barbara Hepworth, Antony Gormley and Charles Jencks

The Guardian - UK

Valve's secretive 'Fremont' gaming device surfaces in benchmarks with 2X more processing power than Steam Deck OLED — device powered by six-core Zen 4 CPU and RX 7600 GPU

Valve's Fremont device, featuring an AMD processor based on the Hawk Point 2 silicon, has appeared in the Geekbench database.

Tom’s Hardware

Millet: Life on the Land review – phallic forks and suggestive wheelbarrows enliven a landscape of toil

There’s a undeniably erotic charge to Millet’s paintings of gloomy hard work – reminding us that, behind the hoes, these are real people with real desires

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Is the Tutankhamun exhibition in Glasgow worth the money? Here's my review

IT'S long been my view that "immersive exhibitions" should be held accountable for their Instagramification of art, culture and history.

The National (Scotland)

Humble peasants … or an odyssey of sex and death? The Millet masterpiece that electrified modern art

Van Gogh saw compassion for the rural worker; Dalí saw phalluses and a child’s grave. As The Angelus comes to the UK, our critic celebrates a painting so deep it could even induce hallucinations

The Guardian - UK

33 Curious Facts They Don’t Teach You In Art Classes

Check these cool facts about art that will absolutely be worthy of your attention and time!

Bored Panda

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

A first-of-its-kind exhibition pairs Vincent van Gogh with Anselm Kiefer, cloned dinos make their comeback in 'Jurassic World: Rebirth', and Kesha releases her first album under her own label. Here's what to look out for this week.

Euronews

Can I tame my 4am terrors? Arifa Akbar on a lifetime of insomnia – and a possible cure

From Van Gogh’s starry skies to the nocturnal workings of Louise Bourgeois and Patricia Highsmith, sleepless nights have long inspired heightened creativity. Could those artistic impulses actually help us to sleep?

The Guardian - UK

Thin Black Line legends return, William Kentridge dazzles and Van Gogh meets a modern – the week in art

Lubaina Himid reincarnates a pioneering show, the South African artist re-energises sculpture and Vincent goes head to head with Anselm Kiefer

The Guardian - UK

Kiefer/Van Gogh at Royal Academy: 'lust for life in the face of death'

4/5 Anselm Kiefer is the German painting of powerful intensity who was hugely inspired by van Gogh, as this fine exhibition intensely demonstrates

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The Guardian - UK

Kiefer/Van Gogh review – Anselm puts the nightmare into Vincent’s sunflower visions

The Dutch artist looks like a prophet of the Holocaust when viewed through the 80-year-old German painter’s dark lens in this startling show, which makes you see how Van Gogh might have painted modern horrors

Euronews

Botched selfie: Tourist damages 18th-century painting at Uffizi Gallery in Florence

The museum's director said that “the problem of visitors coming to museums to make memes or take selfies for social media is rampant.” The tourist was identified and “will be prosecuted".

The Fashion Central

BBC Breakfast Viewers Furious Over Host’s ‘Inappropriate’ Behavior During Coverage of Horror News Story

What was meant to be a light-hearted moment turned sour when presenters Rachel Burden and Ben Boulos chuckled through a story involving damage to a piece of museum artwork.

Euronews

Italian museum reports couple to police for damaging precious 'Van Gogh chair'

The museum has reported the incident to police and released CCTV footage as a warning to respect art in public spaces.

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The Independent UK

CCTV captured tourist’s ‘irresponsible’ act with ‘Van Gogh’ chair

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Tourist shatters ‘Van Gogh’ chair while posing for photos

A tourist sat on a “Van Gogh” chair at an art gallery before the piece collapsed underneath him.

Tom’s Hardware

ASML's Impasto Project creates 3D digital twins of Vincent van Gogh's art with 100 gigabytes of data per scan — nanometer-capable chipmaking tech used to create ‘Google Maps for paintings’

ASML and the Van Gogh museum have collaborated on the design of a 3D scanner to capture and create digital twins of the masterpieces of the Netherlands’ most famous artist.

Evening Standard

Masterstroke: The best art-inspired t-shirts now - from Van Gogh to Basquiat

Art print t-shirts featuring Van Gogh and Basquiat are summer's hottest fashion trend

Inverse

15 Years Ago, the Oldest Sci-Fi Show Perfected a Winning Formula

How does historical TV travel drama actually work? Here's when 'Doctor Who' created a classic with "Vincent and the Doctor."

The Conversation

What a sunny van Gogh painting of ‘The Sower’ tells us about Pope Leo’s message of hope

In his first general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV referred to Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Sower at Sunset” and called it a symbol of hope. A brilliant setting sun illuminates a field as a farmer walks toward the right, sowing seeds.

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10 Textbook Lies We Were Taught as Truth

It’s a strange moment of realization when a long-believed fact turns out to be more fiction than truth. School textbooks, trusted to shape young minds, often simplify or distort history and science to fit neatly into a standardized curriculum. Some inaccuracies are due to outdated knowledge, others to nationalism, bias,…

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