‘Van Gogh: After Arles’

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — In one of the most shocking and infamously haunting incidents in art history, Vincent Van Gogh, consumed with paranoid delusion, sliced off his left ear. After a relatively short hospital stay, he returned to the Yellow House but could not maintain his mental equilibrium. A South Orange-Maplewood Adult School class on Thursday, March 22, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Columbia High School Black Box Theatre, 17 Parker Ave. in Maplewood, will tell the story of the last months of Van Gogh’s life, a journey of exhilarating artistic productivity and exhausting, debilitating anxieties. It was a period in which Van Gogh produced his most memorable, inspirational and iconic works. The class will be taught by award-winning art history educator Janet Mandel.