Vincent Van Gogh

Phoebe Plummer, pictured at a demonstration in London's Piccadilly Circus in early October, spoke to Morning Edition about the tactics Just Stop Oil is using to draw attention to the urgency of climate change.

The activist who threw soup on a van Gogh says it's the planet that's being destroyed

9:02am November 01, 2022

by Lilly Quiroz

Phoebe Plummer, a climate activist with Just Stop Oil, speaks with NPR's Morning Edition about what the group wants, and why they're turning to controversial tactics to get it.

Queue Listen Now

Vincent Van Gogh's Olive Trees, made with oil on canvas in 1889. See the shadow cast by that small tree on the far right side? There's a grasshopper lurking in that shade.

Arts

The Grasshopper In The Van Gogh

6:51pm November 08, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

When museum conservators examined Vincent Van Gogh's Olive Trees, they found something curious stuck in its paint: a grasshopper. Could it be just some weird leftover — or a crucial clue?

Van Gogh's Seascape at Scheveningen, 1882, was stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002.

2 Stolen Van Goghs Recovered By Anti-Mafia Police In Italy

12:31pm September 30, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

The two paintings — of a seascape and of a congregation at a church — were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002. "They are the real paintings!" a curator said in a statement.

Artist Dan Roosegaarde pays tribute to Vincent Van Gogh's painting Starry Night by creating this bike path in Van Gogh's hometown of Eindhoven.

World News

In A Dutch Town, A Glowing Bike Path Inspired By Van Gogh

3:24pm November 17, 2014

by NPR Staff

A modern artist installed a high-tech brick path that glows in the starry night, an homage to one of Van Gogh's most famous paintings.

Queue Listen Now