Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” when he was 36 — in June 1889, near the end of his life, which ended in suicide a year later.

Jeremie Souteyrat for The New York Times Jeremie Souteyrat for The New York Times The rest of the National Gallery closed at 9 p.m. on Friday, but the van Gogh exhibition rooms stayed open all night ...

He found that Van Gogh’s swirls and vortexes followed the statistical fluctuations found in a different flavor of turbulence that gives birth to the real starry night: supersonic turbulence.

Scientists recently analyzed Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night to see how well its famous swirls matched up with known ...

Van Gogh painted his iconic The Starry Night in 1889, while in an asylum in Saint-Rémy. "One of the most beautiful things by the painters of this century," he had written to Theo in April 1885 ...

More information: James J. Riley et al, Is there hidden turbulence in Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night ?, Journal of Turbulence (2025). DOI: 10.1080/14685248.2025.2477244 Provided by Virginia ...

When Vincent van Gogh painted "The Starry Night," one of his most iconic paintings, he incorporated a mix of memory, observation, and, perhaps, his intuition for mathematics and nature.

$169.99 Shop Now Back in 2022, I was invited to The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York to experience the big reveal of LEGO Ideas The Starry Night set, based on Vincent van Gogh's painting ...