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Van Gogh Museum Offers IPhone Users App on Dutch Artist’s Life

Van Gogh Museum Offers IPhone Users App on Dutch Artist’s Life

Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum created an application that allows users of Apple Inc.’s iPhone to access information about the Dutch painter’s life and art.

The application, called “Yours, Vincent,” is available for free download through Apple’s iTunes App Store from Oct. 6, the museum said in a statement posted on its Web site today.

The software is linked to the museum’s show “Van Gogh’s Letters: The Artist Speaks,” which will run from Oct. 9 to Jan. 3, 2010. About 120 letters will be on display, together with the works described in the writing. Vincent van Gogh, the painter of “The Starry Night,” lived from 1853 to 1890.

Apple earlier this month said more than 75,000 applications are available through its App store and that users have downloaded more than 1.8 billion programs. Other art applications available include one for the Brooklyn Museum and a program to locate museums in a user’s vicinity, according to a search in the store.

[Thanks: http://www.bloomberg.com]

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