The Beyond Monet / Beyond Van Gogh experience in the old Statesman building in downtown Austin gives attendees an immersive look at the painters' masterworks. Sara Diggins is a visual journalist at ...

Some of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings are so gorgeous, so vibrant, that you wish you could step inside them. Well, wish no more. “Beyond Van Gogh,” an immersive art experience, comes to Austin’s ...

Vincent van Gogh owes his fame to two things: his groundbreaking canvases, and the fact that he cut off his ear in a fit of madness. This gruesome act of self-mutilation has long been the subject of ...

It was the night before Christmas Eve in 1888 – a cold Sunday evening in the French city of Arles – when Vincent Van Gogh took the razor he kept on his small dressing table and slashed off his left ...

Scholars still debate the artist's motive. Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889) by Vincent Van Gogh. Collection of Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via ...

Ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying a king’s body ensured his ascent among the gods. The preserved corpse — called the Ach (Egyptian for “shining” or “spirit”) — entered a sarcophagus ...