New York's Metropolitan Museum planning major Van Gogh show in 2023

Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh's 'Wheat Field With Cypresses' (oil on canvas, 1889). Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art says it is planning a major exhibition of works by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) next year.

Taking place 170 years after the Dutch artist's birth, the show will focus on the cypresses in his work, said Max Hollein, the director of the museum in Manhattan's Central Park. These cypresses are "possibly the most famous trees in the history of art," Hollein said.