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Five Great Reads: New York’s favourite dive bar, coping with chronic fatigue, and a royal biographer spills the beans

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

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My rookie era: I wasn’t immediately good at oil painting, but it taught me to find pleasure in struggle

One week I spent three miserable hours trying to paint a satin ribbon, and went home in a filthy mood

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Why the mad artistic genius trope doesn’t stand up to scientific scrutiny

Vincent van Gogh sliced off his ear with a knife during a psychotic episode. Ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky developed schizophrenia and spent the last 30 years of his life in hospital. Virginia Woolf lived with bipolar disorder, eventually taking her own life as she felt another deep depression beginning.

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Barbra Streisand Says You Should 'Never Sell Art You Love' – These Are The Stunning Works She Has Used to Decorate Her Home Over The Years

From Van Gogh to Klimt, Barbra Streisand has bought and sold an impressive art collection throughout her career – here is the story of some of her pieces

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Belle Époque posters, sex and body art: The most unmissable art exhibitions of 2025

From Belle Époque posters to radical performance art, 2025 delivered exhibitions that pushed boundaries and opened dialogues.

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40 World-Famous Paintings That Altered The Course Of Art — And Their Massive Worth

Explore how 40 of the world’s most famous paintings have broken records, inspired generations, and redefined what “valuable art” really is.

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40 Famous Paintings That Changed Art Forever And Cost A Fortune Doing It

Explore how 40 of the world’s most famous paintings have broken records, inspired generations, and redefined what “valuable art” really is.

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It Took Hours Of Painting And Makeup For This Artist To Transform Into Vincent van Gogh For Halloween

Jesse Randell transformed himself into a living version of Vincent van Gogh’s self-portrait step-by-step.

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Jewish heirs sue Met Museum and Greek foundation over Nazi-looted Van Gogh painting

A Jewish couple was forced to leave Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 'Olive Picking' behind when they fled Nazi Germany. The pair's heirs are now fighting for the painting's ownership.

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Met museum sued by family over allegedly Nazi-looted Van Gogh painting

New York museum under fire from heirs of Jewish couple allegedly forced to surrender artwork upon fleeing to US

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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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21 Timeless Paintings And The Fascinating Stories That Made Them Legendary

This collection of 21 famous paintings and the stories behind them brings you closer to the artists and the moments that shaped their craft.

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Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

A new Paul Thomas Anderson movie, healing from heartbreak with Welsh musician Cate Le Bon, and a meeting of medieval aesthetics and contemporary gothic. Here's what's happening this week.

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Nano Banana just broke the internet with these viral trends — I tried these 5 prompts and I'm blown away

Google’s Nano Banana has already fueled 200 million AI images in Gemini; Here's how the viral trends work and the exact prompts you can try yourself.

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Van Gogh Museum warns of closure unless Dutch state meets €2.5m funding shortfall

The museum is requesting the government provide an extra €2.5 million annually to cover essential upgrades and sustainability measures - stressing that this isn’t just financial support, but a contractual obligation.

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Van Gogh Museum 'Could Close' Without More Help From Dutch Govt

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam warned Wednesday that it faced closure without more state funding, saying a 104-million-euro ($120 million) renovation was vital to protect its masterpieces.

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90 Random Creepy Facts And Pictures To Deprive Somebody Of Sleep

Two climate activists in their early 20s were sentenced to prison by a London court for throwing soup over Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting during a protest against fossil fuels. Phoebe Plummer, 23, and Anna Holland, 22, from the protest group Just Stop Oil were imprisoned for two years, and…

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"He's up there with Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan": New York rock'n'roller Willie Nile on Vincent Van Gogh, Irish goodbyes and the greatest songwriter you've never heard of

After four years, Willie Nile's new album The Great Yellow Light was worth the wait

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Street lamps aren’t the only form of artificial light pollution – here’s how to create darker nights

Without a view of the stars at night, Don McLean would never have been able to write Vincent and Vincent van Gogh would not have painted Starry Night. Viewing a sky full of stars is part of what makes us human. The light from stars has travelled thousands of miles…

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38 Famous And Culturally Significant Paintings That Are Kept In The Most Surprising Places

Do you know where the world's most famous paintings are kept?

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Bedsheets As Brushstrokes: Artist’s Hilarious And Impressive Take On Famous Paintings (35 Pics)

When the world shut down in March 2020, artist Eliza Reinhardt began recreating famous paintings using only clothes, bed linen, and things she had around the house.

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39 Locations Of The Most Famous Paintings

Do you know where the world's most famous paintings are kept?

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Culture Agenda: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

A first-of-its-kind exhibition pairs Vincent van Gogh with Anselm Kiefer, cloned dinos make their comeback in 'Jurassic World: Rebirth', and Kesha releases her first album under her own label. Here's what to look out for this week.

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Kiefer/Van Gogh at Royal Academy: 'lust for life in the face of death'

4/5 Anselm Kiefer is the German painting of powerful intensity who was hugely inspired by van Gogh, as this fine exhibition intensely demonstrates

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Tourist Breaks Crystal Italian Museum Piece Then Make Hasty Exit, Netizens Guess Where They’re From

Carlon went on to say that she was worried that restoring the chair would not be possible.

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