News about Vincent van Gogh

A three-bedroom house in London's Isleworth has hit the market at a bargain price of £175,000, but there's a catch - you'll need to do some serious digging to find the floor amidst the clutter. Overflowing with bin bags and boxes of the previous owner's belongings, this property is a fixer-upper with a twist. Every room is packed to the ceiling with discarded items, from books to blankets, creating a daunting task for any prospective buyer. One room looks like a deserted library, with books covering every surface. In the bathroom, the sink and tub are littered with old papers and magazines. Due to its current state, the property has garnered negative attention online.

Rihanna drew her famous Instagram profile picture on a plate at a restaurant and Paris, and now fans are joking that she has 'ended Picasso, Da Vinci, and Van Gogh.' In a video from celebrity Italian restaurant Siena in Paris on Wednesday, the 35-year-old A-lister, who recently put on a busty display, was included. She drew the famous illustration that she has used as her Instagram profile picture for years on a dinner plate for the restaurant, and even signed an autograph along the bottom of the article. Siena posted the video with the caption: 'Welcome to Siena @badgalriri [eyes emoji] Legendary plate signed by the queen [dizzy emoji]

David A Lindon, a microartist, spent months painting Banky's Girl with Balloon before shredding it, just like the original was shredded during a live auction in 2018. Microblades were used to break down the miniature copy of a 24-carat gold picture frame. The mini masterpiece has been sold to a private collector for an undisclosed sum and is now part of a limited range of modern masterpieces. Lindon's tiny works have been valued at more than £75,000.

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Whenever a video of Hanan Ameur and Harrison Donnelly (left) sparked rioting this morning, they were seen hammering the glass of the priceless oil painting, shouting, 'it is time for deeds not words.' Both have had previous encounters with the legislation punishing property on behalf of Just Stop Oil. Ameur, 22, (top right) appeared in court last week after being charged with storming during Les Miserables' appearance in London's West End. She and four other protesters allegedly appeared on stage at the Sondheim Theatre last month and waved the climate change organization's banners, bringing the event to a halt. Donnelly, 20, (bottom right) was charged with criminal damage of a building last month after he reportedly splatted orange paint and hand prints over the University of Birmingham library's front door before staging a sit-down protest under a Just Stop Oil banner.

At the National Portrait Gallery, just Stop Oil has smashed a suffragette painting. The reaction was prompted by the government's announcement of calls for more oil licences, according to the climate activists.

Arthur Brand bought the painting, the 1884 'Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring, worth up to six million euros (£5.1 million), on Monday after locating a crook who was in possession of the rare work. In an undisclosed location, the crook, who has not been identified, sunk the painting in a blue IKEA bag, with bubble-wrap and stuffed in a pillow cover, bringing an end to a product of annoyance for Brand for over three years. After following a string of high-profile missing artworks, Brand, who has earned his name 'Indiana Jones of the Art World', said identifying the painting as 'one of the finest moments of my life'. In a video in which he says: "This is Spring Garden by Vincent Van Gogh, which was stolen three years ago from a museum in the Netherlands," a grinning Brand held up the stolen piece. We've been looking for it for more than three and a half years, but it's back, and it is here.'

'Last Generation's Germany's answer to Just Stop Oil has taken protests to a new degree by gluing their hands to airport runways in order to prevent flights from operating. On Thursday, climate activists from 'Letzte Generation' blocked runways and taxiways at Hamburg and Düsseldorf airports. The organisation said they were protesting the government's "lack of planning" and "breaking the rule" in the climate crisis.

Cafe Van Gogh, a Brixton-based cafe named after the popular artist who lived just around the corner in the 1800s, has been hit by rising costs, including a staggering £3,000 utility bill in a single month earlier this year. The non-profit social enterprise, headed by Steve Clark, works with Toucan Education, a leading learning disability charity, to recruit disabled people to work and support disabled people into paid jobs. The cafe also employs several people with disabilities, as well as offering on-the-job training to help people with learning disabilities or mental health problems, such as employable skills. However, with bookings down and costs rising, the establishment is in danger of a difficult future.

MICK HUME: It appears we're up against Just Stop Snooker and Just Stop Horse Racing after we just stopped oil. What next - Just Stop Sport? These green neo-puritans are supposed to come clean and say themselves, Just Stop Fun. What on earth did that eco-zealot imagine he might achieve by jumping on a snooker table at the world championships in Sheffield (pictured), and sprinkling the Crucible baize with orange powder? Nothing, of course. These are clearly not part of any genuine political movement.

Everybody's mind's eye is different, and a recent University of Sussex report revealed that one-third of people are 'completely blind.' This is also known as aphantasia, and no one knows why it occurs. So how well can you picture things? To find out, take this quiz.

Dr. Steven Cohen, an anti-aging specialist in California and the United Kingdom, says he is on the verge of harnessing stem cell therapy, which could de-age people. According to him, the device, which involves injecting people with exosomes, tiny vesicles that are naturally grown by stem cells, is just five years old and could revolutionize the anti-aging market. The life expectancy in the United States had been on a seemingly unstoppable climbs curve for more than a century (right). Progress has reversal over the past two years.

In a new wave of action affecting road users in a rush hour, the Met Police say they are able to combat eco-zealots (main) planning to'swarm and block' roundabouts. Just Stop Oil (top left) demonstrators have been holding up drivers on various highways, including the M25 in recent weeks, and will now focus on London's major roundabouts. With the latest strategy, the anti-fossil fuel campaigners are aiming to cause'maximum disruption' to road users.

Eco-zealots are expected to plan to'swarm and block' roundabouts in a new wave of action aimed at road users, which is set to begin during rush hour tomorrow. Only Stop Oil protesters have been holding up drivers on various roads for months, including the M25 in recent weeks, and now plan to hit London's main roundabouts. With the latest strategy, the anti-fossil lobbyists are promising to cause'maximum confusion' to road users. According to reports, the company intends to march 'as slowly as possible, from major roundabouts, in many teams, and timed phases.'

Just Stop Oil climate activists! According to their lawyer, the value of a Vincent Van Gogh painting may have 'increased' the value after glueing themselves to the artwork in a London art gallery. Emily Brocklebank, 23, and Louis McKechnie, 22, were found guilty of only causing just under £2,000 of criminal harm to the frame. The activists, according to Jonathan Bryan, prosecutors, attached to Van Gogh's 1889 work Peach Trees In Blossom at the Courtauld Gallery on the Strand, on June 30.

NORMAN BRENNAN: I was on the beat at Waterloo Station in London back in 1981, when I was a 22-year-old officer with the British Transport Police. Two female activists, who were protesting the storage of nuclear weapons at Greenham Commons, chained themselves to a military helicopter taken to the railway forecourt on Sunday to exhibit a forces recruitment drive. These young women, defiant young women, who were full of narcissistic pride, were soon stopped smirking as my partner and I started to cut them loose with a pair of bolt-cutters. We handcuffed them and took them straight into custody, and they were charged with a public order offence. They were in court, where the presiding magistrate fined them, bound them over to keep the peace and told them in no uncertain terms that if they were to see them again, they would face an immediate custodial sentence.

Caspar Hughes, 51, (left) walked into Westminster Magistrates court for a case management hearing in which he wore a tweed jacket, a dark blue shirt, and jeans. When he appeared in court last month with Extinction Rebellion co-founder Simon Bramwell, 50, he denied causing the frame damage. The words "No New Oil" were spray-painted in white letters onto the red plinth beneath the huge painting at the Royal Academy (RA) in central London on July 5 (right).

Phoebe Plummer, 21, (left and right) and Anna Holland, 20, (inset), gluing themselves to the wall, gluing themselves to the wall, 20. Plummer, a University of Manchester graduate, has participated in several major Just Stop Oil Demonstrations, including gluing herself to the road to avoid traffic jams. On Twitter, self-styled 'Ziggy Stardyke' has posted a number of images and videos of herself and fellow protesters The two eco rebels have been photographed and posted on Facebook as part of the radical group's blockades of Parliament Square and Trafalgar Square, bringing London's central market to a halt. Plummer had to be pulled off by police after the Met unglued her from the pavement on Trafalgar Square on October 6. At the march, she said: 'We have no time to lose.'

At the National Gallery in London, just Stop Oil protesters had Heinz tomato soup over Vincent Van Gogh's masterpiece 'Sunflowers'. In the latest protest after a string of eco-warrior stunts this week, climate activists glued themselves to the £84 million painting. After throwing soup on the painting - which has a glass cover - protestor Phoebe Plummer, 21, yelled: 'What is worth more, art or life?'Is it worth more than food?More than justice?'Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting, or the protection of our planet and people?

On days they were feeling more hopeful, dancers, designers, and those with passions for art and music all rated their creativity. According to Creativity Research Journal, neurotics, which were more likely to be tortured, were less innovative, scientists at Goldsmiths, University of London. 'The findings show that being in a upbeat and energetic mood makes you more creative,' said author Joydeep Bhattacharya.'

Art historians used x-rays to find the wrestlers' depiction under a work (left) titled 'Still life with meadow flowers and roses', which had been previously attributed to an unknown artist. Researchers came to the conclusion that both the wrestling representation and the painting on top of it were by Van Gogh, who knew the painter's period at a Belgian art academy. The artwork, which was produced on a 100 percent by 80 centimetre (40x31in) canvas, had already been xrayed five years ago, but it only revealed an indistinct image of the wrestlers. The wrestlers were portrayed in greater detail in the 2012 X-ray, as well as the brush strokes and pigments used. The photograph, on the other hand, was still in black and white and somewhat unclear. Three UK-based researchers have now used X-rays, artificial intelligence (AI), and 3-D printing to re-create the original colour scheme (right). Anthony Bourached and physicist George Cann, both PhD students at University College London, worked alongside mathematician Jesper Eriksson. All three three artists are members of Oxia Palus, where they work to bring 'dormant' pieces of art that are otherwise hidden under other works of art back to life by technology.