...magnificent Rijksmuseum after 10 years of renovations and, after a shorter facelift, the May 1 reopening of the neighboring Van Gogh Museum. You must pay to get into those museums, but most of downtown Amsterdam looks like an open-air museum, and...

...social setting to novice painters. She called the classes "Van Gogh and Vino." Ashe teaches while students snack on food...the country.By February 2010, she had registered the Van Gogh and Vino business name with the state and started offering...

...m., Le Chat Noir, 304 Eighth St.; '80s Night 8 p.m., Sky City, 1157 Broad St.; Valentines, Violins and Van Gogh, wine and refreshments, Gallery on the Row, 1016 Broad St.; (706) 825-4702, augustaarts.comINTRODUCTION TO FLORAL...

...weekend in February.? On First Friday, Feb. 1, Gallery on the Row will offer an evening of Valentines, Violins and Van Gogh.? The Morris Museum of Art's Print Fair will open with a champagne preview party from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday...

...that featured self-playing instruments dating back to the 18th century.Activities in Amsterdam included a tour of the Van Gogh museum and a canal boat ride. But we also took an optional, 26-euro two-hour chaperoned tour of the city's famous...

...Laurens St.; (803) 641-9094; aikencenterforthearts.org; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday; book signing, Van Gogh: The Life, with authors Steve Naifeh and Gregory Smith White, 6-8 p.m. Dec. 1, doors open at 5 p.m., freeArt...

...Laurens St.; (803) 641-9094; aikencenterforthearts.org; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday; book signing, Van Gogh: The Life, with authors Steve Naifeh and Gregory Smith White, 6-8 p.m. Dec. 1, doors open at 5 p.m., freeAiken...

...will host authors Steve Neifeh and Gregory Smith White on Thursday, Dec. 1, for a talk and signing of their new book, Van Gogh: The Life. The authors, who have ties to the Aiken area, have collaborated on several works, including Jackson Pollock...

...Naifeh and Smith wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Jackson Pollock, and their newest collaboration is Van Gogh: The Life, a volume that took more than a decade to write and runs more than 900 pages, with an ever-expanding online...

...for a closely guarded formula for absinthe.The herbal, licorice tasting drink, which according to lore drove Vincent Van Gogh crazy and fired the poetry of Charles Baudelaire, is technically still illegal in France.But an alliance of the distillery's...