Van Gogh’s yellow show
The Van Gogh Museum’s ‘Yellow. Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour’ is on through May 17 and even calls on J.M.W. Turner’s sun‑chasing yellows as a foil — critics are already dubbing it ‘yellow fever.’ (x.com)
The Van Gogh Museum opened Yellow. Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour on 13 February 2026, announcing the show in a 12 February press release and naming Edwin Becker among the curatorial team. (vangoghmuseum.nl) The presentation places Van Gogh’s Sunflowers (1889) alongside Wheatfield with a Reaper and more than 50 artworks and objects drawn from public and private collections. (smithsonianmag.com) Organizers say the exhibition brings together works by over fifteen artists from roughly 1850–1915, including Paul Signac, Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky and Cuno Amiet. (artprice.com) Artist Olafur Eliasson contributes immersive light works—the museum lists two installations—while the show supplements paintings with displays of music, literature, fashion and curated scents to map yellow across sensory culture. (vangoghmuseum.nl) Coverage in The Art Newspaper, El País and Apollo highlights the exhibition’s argument that yellow functioned as a sign of modernity, spirituality and psychological tension around 1900. (theartnewspaper.com) Loan highlights named in the catalogue include Cuno Amiet’s The Yellow Hill (1903) from the Kunstmuseum Solothurn / Dübi‑Müller Foundation, used to show how artists outside France and the Netherlands treated the hue. (vangoghmuseum.nl)
