Two decades ago, a pair of physicists stood in a museum in Madrid contemplating the work of the post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. One word kept popping up to describe the artist’s work and ...

It’s often said that art imitates nature, but in the case of a Vincent van Gogh enthusiast in Bosnia, nature has been corralled to imitate art. When Halim Zukic bought a plot of land two decades ago ...

In his swirling 1889 masterwork, The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh took certain artistic liberties. The quaint valley village is imaginary and the brilliant crescent moon was actually in waning ...

(CNN) — The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind when he painted the work in 1889. Now, a new ...

Visitors gather around Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" (1889) at the Museum of Modern Art (all photos Elaine Velie/Hyperallergic) On a busy Thursday afternoon, visitors to the Museum of Modern ...

Vincent Van Gogh's 136-year-old "The Starry Night" is making rounds on the internet. Apparently, the painting contained a replica of vortices produced during Kelvin-Helmholtz instability inside ...

Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" accurately depicts the energy distribution in turbulent flows. The painting's swirls follow Kolmogorov's law of turbulence, a key equation in physics. It also shows ...