{"id":69655,"date":"2026-06-02T12:22:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=69655"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:31:15","slug":"van-gogh-light-from-darkness","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/van-gogh-light-from-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Gogh: Light from Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Art historian Rose Balston leads a deep dive into Van Gogh&#8217;s life, art and legacy with a talk that goes behind the myth of the \u201ctortured genius\u201d, the madman, the failure &#8220;into the real story of an artist whose convictions about truth, dignity and human connection were absolutely uncompromising&#8221;. Also included: tenor Charles McGlone singling Don McLean\u2019s &#8216;Starry, Starry Night&#8217;, a reflection on art as healing by transpersonal psychologist Nargis Raza, and food and drinks throughout (&#8220;substantial&#8221; canap\u00e9s, mocktails, &#8220;other drinks&#8221;). Interesting factoid, courtesy of Ms Balston: Van Gogh considered &#8216;Starry Night&#8217; a weak painting (actually he referred to it in letters to his brother Theo as a &#8220;failure&#8221;\u00a0 \u2013 he felt that he had &#8220;reached for stars that are too big&#8221;) and regarded &#8216;The Potato Eaters&#8217; as <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">&#8220;the<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">best<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">thing<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">I<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">did&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Art historian Rose Balston leads a deep dive into Van Gogh&#8217;s life, art and legacy with a talk that goes behind the myth of the \u201ctortured genius\u201d, the madman, the failure &#8220;into the real story of an artist whose convictions <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/van-gogh-light-from-darkness\/\" title=\"Van Gogh: Light from Darkness\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[337,108],"class_list":["post-69655","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-art-history","tribe_events_cat-talk","cat_art-history","cat_talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/69655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/69655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69655"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=69655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}