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This Artist Reproduced van Gogh’s Ear…and It’s Alive!

Living Masterpiece

A museum in Germany has opened a rather eerie exhibit…a living re-creation of the famous artist’s missing appendage using his DNA. Visitors can even talk to it.

Justin Jones

Published Jun. 4 2014 6:05PM EDT

articles/2014/06/04/this-artist-reproduced-van-gogh-s-ear-and-it-s-alive/140604-van-gogh-ear-tease_baad2b — Thomas Kienzle/AFP/Getty

Justin Jones

Justin Jones

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