“Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart,” by Russ Ramsey

The discussion of pain, that sharing is a precondition for dignity and hope, that we mistake suffering as failure rather than a means of grace, and that our sorrows are hallowed by God, โ€œwho enters fully into the painful stories of our own lives,โ€ is so richly realized in the lives of the artists highlighted here (x, xi, xii).