Vincent van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night” has long been admired for its art, but physicists are also intrigued by the science beneath the strokes and swirls.

Van Gogh’s yearning for love and to be loved can be found not only in his letters (“I can’t live without love, without a woman. I couldn’t care a fig for life if there wasn’t something ...

Van Gogh can seem overly familiar, but — as in “Poets and Lovers” — there is always something new to see and perhaps, moreover, to feel. Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers ...