a[n] [auto]biography and a love story.
I am currently staying around the corner from here. You keep walking down this street, past the cafe about twenty feet, turn left, then another block, and that’s where I am right now. It’s of course called La Cafe Nuit and Cafe Van Gogh now – not its original name – and they’ve since restored [...]
Tue, August 25 2009 » Travel » No Comments
I am about to leave for Arles from Northern Spain. I am very happy that this is my last stop because this is where you really found yourself, Vincent. It is also where I believe you lost yourself. It is there you painted Starry Night over the Rhone, there you painted the night cafe, there [...]
Mon, August 24 2009 » Personal » No Comments
In March 2009, I did my first research trip. I realized that there were plenty of Vincent’s paintings in the US if one just knew where to look. And so I visited the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT), the Museum of Art (Providence, RI), the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), the [...]
Thu, July 30 2009 » Research, Travel » No Comments
