From the incredibly touching and lucid Self-Portrait of 1889 (pictured right), you wouldn’t know he’d just left the psychiatric hospital in St Rémy after recovering from two major crises. He regards ...

Vincent van Gogh, "Self-Portrait" (1889) (image courtesy the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC) Editor’s Note: The following poems have been excerpted with permission and adapted from ...

Tenth Portsmouth Poet Laureate Kate Leigh’s project "Poems for Peace” (PFP) is hitting a programmed milestone, and making some unplanned moves. Leigh’s laureate project largely targets children though ...

A major exhibition in London focuses on the painter’s final years, finding new feelings in some of his most famous works. By Emily LaBarge Reviewing from London The two vivid portraits — the poet and ...