Van Gogh’s Cypresses Get the Blockbuster Treatment with a Treasure-Filled Met Show

What makes a blockbuster art exhibition: size or quality? Back in 1990, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art lured nearly 140 Vincent van Gogh paintings and drawings to New York, it seemed that the appeal of a big, expensive survey hinged on the length of its decorated checklist. No surprise, then, that 1.2 million people saw that retrospective, with some even camping out in the summer heat to make it into the show.More than 30 years on, here comes “Van Gogh’s Cypresses,” the Me