Everyone knows The Starry Night.
Or at least, they think they do.
Van Gogh didn’t paint one Starry Night.
He painted two.
And almost no one knows the second.
The first is the one you know—
swirling sky, burning stars, a village below.
It’s been everywhere for decades.
I’ve been staring at it on my mousepad for years.
But in 2023, standing inside the Musée d’Orsay, I turned the corner —
— and saw this.
