vincent van gogh | Matthew Dicks

The offer of a golden toilet seems just right

By Matthew Dicks | February 3, 2018 |

If you’re looking to make a charitable donation to a worthy organization, might I suggest you consider the Guggenheim Museum in New York? Thanks to a recently leaked email, when the White House emailed the Guggenheim in September and asked to borrow Vincent Van Gogh’s 1888 painting “Landscape with Snow,” the curator made a counteroffer:…

Beautiful but temporary: Why would an artist ever choose such a fleeting medium?

By Matthew Dicks | March 25, 2017 |

This is remarkable, beautiful, unbelievable, and maddeningly temporary. You must watch. It’s hard to imagine why someone so talented would create art that lasts for such a short period of time. Perhaps he doesn’t suffer from the existential crisis that plagues me.

Vincent Van Gogh on Doctor Who makes me cry.

By Matthew Dicks | September 13, 2016 |

You may know that I don’t handle mortality well. One of the things that hurts my heart most is the idea that when we die, we cannot see tomorrow. We’ll never know how this grand story ends, and how far reaching our influence may be. I weep for people like Abraham Lincoln, Edgar Allen Poe, Johann…