In addition to having visited the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, I have over the decades went to three van Gogh Exhibits two at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (Van Gogh at Arles, and Van Gogh at Auvers-St Remy) and one at the Brooklyn Museum (1975).
How to properly correctly pronounce Vincent van Gogh in Dutch.
But as a BnB, you need to spend 15 minutes with “New Netherland – the best kept secret in American history.” https://youtu.be/DYxrw99uYe0
Sorry, I have zero affinity for any kind of visual art. I knew this when I was as in kindergarten. The teacher asked us to draw something. When she showed all the submissions to the class she looked at mine, said “That’s horrible!” and ripped it up in front of everybody.
It wasn’t as traumatic as it sounds because I knew it sucked when I handed it in.
If anyone gets the chance to go to one of the “Immersive Van Gogh” exhibits where his art is projected on the walls/ceiling/floor so it’s as if you’re inside the painting I highly recommend it. Did this in Chicago. It was wonderful.
Van Gogh – death by suicide in 1890? Or victim of accidental murder, like drunken gun play?
I support the revisionist case as simpler and likelier. But pure romantics keep the traditional claim going. Which is an additional reason why I think it’s unlikely to be veridical.
Mike, I saw the immersive Van Gogh experience, too (in San Fran) and it really was great! Highly recommend it.
A Zaphod Dopamine Hit Twofer Courtesy of Elisabeth Holmes and her Pakistani Ex Squeeze:
Wouldn’t want to be Thomas Edison in the Current Year:
“Scientist Josiah Zayner is brilliant, daring, and may have incurred the wrath of more internet platforms than any person alive. Is America’s most interesting person also its most censored?”
“I have been a long-term China bull since I began blogging. Proof (2008). A lot of what the Western media was writing about China were based on Sinophobic fantasies that had no correlation with reality. Just to be clear, I am still a China bull, at least in the sense that I’m sure its GDP per capita will converge to the levels predicted by its human capital, i.e. Japan/South Korea, giving it by far the world’s largest economy by mid-century. But I am increasingly skeptical about its ability to produce anything that is… really interesting/world-transformational.
It continues making top-down decisions that, as in centuries past, may curtail the ultimate scope of its civilizational achievements….”
Saw the immersive Van Gogh in Honolulu in July.
Don’t miss it if it comes your way, modern tech has redeemed itself!
Glad I saw it when I did, friends had rez for a later date and missed out when our ass of a governor shut it down.
In addition to having visited the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, I have over the decades went to three van Gogh Exhibits two at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (Van Gogh at Arles, and Van Gogh at Auvers-St Remy) and one at the Brooklyn Museum (1975).
How to properly correctly pronounce Vincent van Gogh in Dutch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZufH6h1-Tm8
Thanks for that!
BnB – no one gets the Dutch “G.” So don’t worry.
But as a BnB, you need to spend 15 minutes with “New Netherland – the best kept secret in American history.”
https://youtu.be/DYxrw99uYe0
Sorry, I have zero affinity for any kind of visual art. I knew this when I was as in kindergarten. The teacher asked us to draw something. When she showed all the submissions to the class she looked at mine, said “That’s horrible!” and ripped it up in front of everybody.
It wasn’t as traumatic as it sounds because I knew it sucked when I handed it in.
If anyone gets the chance to go to one of the “Immersive Van Gogh” exhibits where his art is projected on the walls/ceiling/floor so it’s as if you’re inside the painting I highly recommend it. Did this in Chicago. It was wonderful.
Van Gogh – death by suicide in 1890? Or victim of accidental murder, like drunken gun play?
That’s the issue that arose after 2012, for the “Becoming Van Gogh” exhibition in Denver Art Museum (Oct 2012 to Feb 2013). https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/becoming-van-gogh
The curator of Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum opposed this revisionist argument. But the DAM curator supports this revisionism.
Here’s an outline https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Vincent_van_Gogh
I support the revisionist case as simpler and likelier. But pure romantics keep the traditional claim going. Which is an additional reason why I think it’s unlikely to be veridical.
Mike, I saw the immersive Van Gogh experience, too (in San Fran) and it really was great! Highly recommend it.
A Zaphod Dopamine Hit Twofer Courtesy of Elisabeth Holmes and her Pakistani Ex Squeeze:
https://vdare.com/articles/elizabeth-holmes-and-theranos-female-psychopath-or-pakistani-immigrant-grooming-or-both
The Medical Profession in 2021:
https://twitter.com/TheLancet/status/1441372277786951681
You want to click on this.
Wouldn’t want to be Thomas Edison in the Current Year:
“Scientist Josiah Zayner is brilliant, daring, and may have incurred the wrath of more internet platforms than any person alive. Is America’s most interesting person also its most censored?”
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-josiah-zayner-americas-most
Well we’ve had plenty of American China Copes here, so I think it’s time for some Qualified Russian China Copes:
https://www.unz.com/akarlin/china-isnt-going-to-make-it/
“I have been a long-term China bull since I began blogging. Proof (2008). A lot of what the Western media was writing about China were based on Sinophobic fantasies that had no correlation with reality. Just to be clear, I am still a China bull, at least in the sense that I’m sure its GDP per capita will converge to the levels predicted by its human capital, i.e. Japan/South Korea, giving it by far the world’s largest economy by mid-century. But I am increasingly skeptical about its ability to produce anything that is… really interesting/world-transformational.
It continues making top-down decisions that, as in centuries past, may curtail the ultimate scope of its civilizational achievements….”
Saw the immersive Van Gogh in Honolulu in July.
Don’t miss it if it comes your way, modern tech has redeemed itself!
Glad I saw it when I did, friends had rez for a later date and missed out when our ass of a governor shut it down.
Lost in Translation, 2021 Remake:
https://kvia.com/news/military/2021/09/24/woman-soldier-assaulted-by-afghan-refugees-at-fort-bliss-camp/