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Van Gogh in America

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Museum Confidential: Season 7, Episode 9.
Photo by Lee DeVito.

Museum Confidential: Season 7, Episode 9.

A century ago, the Detroit Institute of Arts became the first U.S. museum to purchase a painting by Vincent van Gogh. Now they're hosting America's largest Van Gogh exhibition in a generation; the show closes later this month. On this episode of MC, we chat with DIA curator Jill Shaw about this massive, complicated, super-popular undertaking.

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