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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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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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The Weekend Itinerary — How to Spend 48 Hours in Arles, the "Little Rome of Provence", According to Our Lifestyle Editor

Searching for the best things to do in Arles, the world-leading photography capital? Follow Livingetc's in-house culture and design enthusiast on an inspired tour of the city

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From ayahuasca rituals to a birthday in the favelas: Arles photography festival takes us on a trip

This year’s French photo extravaganza showcases stunning images from across Latin America. There’s also selfie addicts, anonymous fetishists and a pharmacist taking pictures of his customers without their consent

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‘A monumental moment’: world’s leading photography festival puts Australia in focus

Exclusive: Les Rencontres d’Arles will this year spotlight First Nations and non-Indigenous Australian artists in a major exhibition opening in July in France

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Tour de la Provence: Sam Bennett wins final stage ahead of speed bump finish crash in Arles

Mads Pedersen secures GC title at three-day stage race

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Van Gogh hospital paintings to be shown together in London for the first time

Works created after artist’s ear mutilation incident go on display at the Courtauld Gallery next month

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Van Gogh Poets & Lovers: poignant show of extraordinary work by Dutch painter at his most fragile

Most people today associate Vincent van Gogh with sunflowers and starry nights. He found the inspiration for such masterpieces of modern art in Provence, in the south of France, where he lived for just over two years, from February 1888 to May 1890. These would be the last years of…

The Conversation

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

Politics, oil crises and abortion rights infiltrate the optimistic 1970s interiors of Villa Benkemoun

For the 50th anniversary of Villa Benkemoun in Arles, a new exhibition critically explores the year of 1974 through contemporary and historic artworks that antagonise the optimism of its design

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‘Who has not dreamed of seeing what the eye cannot grasp?’: Rencontres d’Arles comes to the south of France

Les Rencontres d’Arles 2024 presents over 40 exhibitions and nearly 200 artists, and includes the latest iteration of the BMW Art Makers programme

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DZO Film unveils fast T1.4 Arles cinema lens series inspired by Vincent van Gogh

New Arles T1.4 primes from DZO Film bring high performance at an affordable price point for solo filmmakers

Digital Camera World

Arles photo festival defiantly celebrates world's diversity

One of the world's most renowned photo festivals returns to the French town of Arles this summer with an ode to diversity.

Radio France Internationale

France's Renowned Arles Photo Fest Goes 'Beneath The Surface'

One of the world's most renowned photo festivals, in the French town of Arles, returned this week with a timely ode to diversity at a moment when France is turning towards the far right.

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Tour de la Provence: Pedersen secures overall as Van Asbroeck win final sprint

Belgian beats Bennett and Hofstetter on crosswind-hit stage 3 in Arles

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At home with India Mahdavi

India Mahdavi invites us to her Paris and Arles homes, and tells us about her approach to interiors, the objects that surround her and what inspires her

The Guardian - UK

Arles or nothing … can shiny culture bridge a serious French social divide?

The Luma Foundation’s gleaming Gehry-designed arts centre towers over a French city struggling with debt, drugs and poverty – so who really benefits from the city’s resurgence?

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A behind-the-scenes look at the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents

We travel to Arles for the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents, with photographer Dexter Navy

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Parliamentary probe blames prison failures for death of Corsican activist Colonna

A French parliamentary commission of inquiry into the fatal attack on Corsican independence activist Yvan Colonna in Arles prison in 2022 on Tuesday released a report denouncing a series of "failures", "inactions" and "errors" by authorities.

Bangkok Post

Step into Van Gogh's world

Whether you're an art enthusiast or not, you must have heard of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. His masterpieces like The Starry Night, Sunflowers, Bedroom In Arles and Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear are now being presented at a digital immersive art exhibition, "Van Gogh Alive Bangkok" at the massive…

Reuters

Art or torture? France debates banning bullfighting

Sixteen-year old Baptiste is training to be a bullfighter in the southern French city of Arles and says lawmakers who want to ban it across the country simply do not comprehend what he calls an art.

France 24

Fine art photography at Arles: Mitch Epstein on capturing 1980s India with his camera

The French city of Arles becomes a Provençal headquarters for fine art photography every summer, as the “Rencontres d’Arles” festival brings together imagery from all over the world through dozens of exhibitions, screenings and events. We sit down with Mitch Epstein, who tells us about revisiting the pictures that make…

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Egypt's Amina Kadous Nominated for Int'l Photography Award

Egypt's Amina Kadous is among eight photographers nominated for the 6th edition of the Madame Figaro Photography Award (Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro Arles) at the “Les Rencontres de la Photographie à Arles” Festival. The festival is held annually in the city of Arles, southern France. This year, the…

The Guardian - UK

The big picture: dancing on the beach in the Camargue, 1957

Lucien Clergue’s shot, taken in the French seaside town of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, celebrates a Gypsy pilgrimage amid the stirrings of postwar hedonism

Radio France Internationale

Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna in a coma after being attacked by fellow prisoner

A day after he was attacked by a fellow inmate in Arles prison, southern France, Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna was still in a coma in Marseilles on Thursday morning, in a stable state, one of his lawyers said.

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