Last year, Adam Gopnik wrote about Vincent van Gogh and the mythology surrounding his severed ear, including the claim that it was Gauguin, not van Gogh, who made the infamous cut. This October, a book titled “Van Gogh: The Life,” by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, challenged the idea that van Gogh took his own life, as is widely believed, asserting that he was actually shot by a teen-ager. The time is ripe, then, for “Van Gogh’s Dream,” an iPad app supported, in part, by the Institut Van Gogh. It includes biographical information, an interactive catalogue of his paintings, explorations of his technique, scans of his letters (including the last one he wrote to his brother Theo), and video interviews with art experts and historians. Read more at newyorker.com…
Dream On
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I’m the deputy managing editor at strategy + business, a freelance editor at Belt, and the former web manager at The New Yorker. My writing and editing also has appeared in The New York Times, The Independent, the Observer, the Rumpus, the Cleveland Clinic Press, and Northern Ohio Live. Additionally, I was a founding team member of Maven, a healthcare app for women. I live in Brooklyn with my husband, the musician and writer Mike Errico, and our daughter. Follow me @sally_errico. View more posts