‘Ever Yours’
Most people are familiar with his many famous paintings. But the real Van Gogh, the manic genius, the tortured artist, is best understood in his trove of nearly 1,000 surviving letters.
Nick Mafi is an Iranian-American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared in Architectural Digest, Conde Nast Traveler, Esquire, GQ, Slate, The Daily Beast, and Vanity Fair. He has written for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he is also a docent. Nick is currently a Features Editor at Architectural Digest, and is working on his first novel.
Heist
The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in August 1911. How did one of the best-known painters of all time become a prime suspect?