Son Dakika Haberler
Van Morrison has always ploughed a contrary furrow and as he heads into his twilight years, he’s bringing it all back home. His new album, Accentuate the Positive, finds him going back to songs that he first played in Belfast bar bands as a teenager a full 60 years ago. Morrison has said that he …
Impressionists on Paper is a bitty ramble of a show, despite some drop dead masterpieces. Its title betrays its lack of purpose. Impressionists! On paper! For as the curators assume we all know, the French artists who shocked conservative taste in the 1870s are renowned as painter’s painters. They put their easels in the open …
Choreographer Dam Van Huynh was a child refugee from Vietnam and his latest work, Re:birth, draws directly on the experience of finding himself displaced in the aftermath of war. As is often the way in dance, a very specific inspiration can become a much more amorphous piece of choreography, leaving only traces and impressions, in …
They are more commonly associated with pop concerts or football matches than art exhibitions. But rows of ticket touts have become a familiar sight outside the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in recent weeks as they seek to get their hands on a limited edition Pokémon card. There was so much interest in the card, …
Throughout the ages, poems have been written to express profound love for fellow human beings, nature and God. Vans – not so much. But now Poetry in Motion (pdf), the world’s first anthology of poems by van drivers about life on the road, has been published by Mercedes-Benz Vans with the support of George Mpanga, …
For a man who died in 1890, Vincent van Gogh seemed remarkably au fait with 21st-century parlance. Asked why he had cut off his left ear, the artist replied that this was a misconception and he had in fact only cut off “part of my earlobe”. So why did he shoot himself in the chest …
A Dutch art detective has recovered a precious Vincent van Gogh painting that was stolen from a museum in a midnight heist during the coronavirus lockdown three and a half years ago, police have said. Arthur Brand took possession of the missing painting, the Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring, painted in 1884 and worth …
It is maverick, perhaps reckless, to attempt to turn a multi-generational, multicharacter classic into a one-man show. Yet Valentijn Dhaenens pulls it off in this curious adaptation of Flemish playwright Cyriel Buysse’s 1903 epic about family, poverty, class and social injustice – with the help of nifty technology. Dhaenens, a co-founder of Belgian theatre company …
It has been billed as the “future of art” by some critics and praised as a way of bringing some of the world’s most iconic masterpieces to a mass audience. But now one of the biggest companies behind the boom in “immersive art” has filed for bankruptcy, suggesting the craze could end up being short-lived. …
Whether it is rolling yellow wheat fields or a gnarled and twisted olive tree, Van Gogh’s landscapes have long entranced art lovers. Now researchers have found the paintings deemed more pleasant by adults are also more captivating for babies. The team say their findings suggest certain biases in what we chose to look at are …