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Aug.16.2012 Does the Man in the Mirror Matter? Does knowledge of the artist affect the perception of the art? Have you ever watched the superbly crafted horror film “Rosemary’s Baby”? Does your enjoyment of the movie change when you learn that the director, Roman Polanski, was arrested for and plead guilty to statutory rape? ...	May.05.2012 You Say "Van Go," I Say "Van Goch," (and So Does Van Gogh) You may have recently heard that Edvard Munch’s masterpiece “The Scream” sold for a near-record $120 million. Shortly after, San Francisco Chronicle movie critic Mick LaSalle held a vote on his “Maximum Strength Mick” blog, asking readers which of 31 Old Master masterpieces would they like...
Feb.22.2012 Starry, Starry Night... “Paint your pallet blue and grey, Look out on a summer’s day, With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.” Don McLean’s lyrics tell the haunting story of the darkness…the emptiness that was the soul of Vincent Van Gogh. There’s a lot of emptiness in the universe…an infinity of darkness in this...	Feb.04.2012 Still Life With Lovers Several years ago I wrote a short story for one of the writing contests run by the online writer's group, Backspace. That story, "Still Life With Lovers," tied for first place along with a story by my friend, author A.S. King. The story has sat on my hard drive for several years now, whispering for...
May.19.2010 Starry, Starry Night Even the first time we heard about it -- before we ever heard it actually played -- it sounded goofy. 'Vincent?' Who was Vincent and why would anyone write a song about him? It wasn't 'Sherry' (second grade?) or even 'Bad, Bad Leroy Brown' (what grade that was, I've mercifully blocked). 'Vincent?'...	Apr.24.2010 From Paris to Provence Thirst for Sun 1888: “Van Gogh was […] talking of his wish to go south, ostensibly in search of more light and colour.” “Vincent […] cited severe Parisian winter and his indifferent health […] as reasons for his departure: ‘It appears to me to be almost impossible to work in Paris, unless you have...
Apr.21.2010 Self-Portrait Vincent van Gogh, September 5 or 6, 1889, in a letter to his brother: "They say - and I am very willing to believe it - that it is difficult to know oneself - but it isn't easy to paint oneself either. So I am working on two self-portraits at the moment - for want of another model."...	Mar.31.2010 Vincent van Gogh - The Letters This afternoon, my copy of Vincent van Gogh - The Letters arrived... the complete illustrated and annotated edition comprising six volumes, slipcased with a CD-ROM of the letters in their original languages. The set was published by Thames & Hudson in 2009 and went out of stock all over...
Dec.23.2008 Once upon a daydream... While in Paris, we decided to go to the Musée d’Orsay, to pay our respects to Vincent van Gogh’s glorious paintings, as we have done many times during previous years and will undoubtedly do numerous times in the years to come; after all, who could ever tire of such wonderful art? I’ve been...