Van Gogh Twitter Controversy, Explained: Why a Viral Tweet Tried to Cancel the Post-Impressionist

Over the past few days, hundreds of thousands of Twitter users have gotten involved in a heated debate, and it has nothing to do with politics, celebrities, or K-Pop stans—the subjects that typically populate one’s Twitter feed. The subject of that discourse was something far less likely: a famed 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh called Café Terrace at Night and a reinterpretation of the French Post-Impressionist’s masterpiece by contemporary Chinese artist Haixia Liu. H