Café Terrace at Night: Five details that unlock the genius of Van Gogh's original 'starry night' ^50.1%

BBC Culture - By Kelly Grovier - 6/19/2026, 11:00 AM

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With his first "starry night" painting in Arles in 1888, Vincent van Gogh transformed an ordinary city square into something extraordinary – here's how he did it, and what it means. Before there was The Starry Night, nine months before, to be exact, there was Café Terrace at Night. Painted in September 1888, the luminous portrayal of a... more

‘We all want to know what he was doing in the bedroom’: Kerouac’s unseen archive goes on show in New York ^0%

The Guardian - By Alexander Cheves - 3/9/2026, 12:11 PM

Among great literary myths, the one of Jack Kerouac is often reduced to a vibe. The open road, a cigarette, a postwar rebel leaning on a beat-up car – a masculine archetype of rebellion and hedonism. Kerouac’s 1957 book On the Road was the bible of the beat generation and chronicles, in startlingly unfiltered prose, his travels across... more