Every year, people come from all over the world to visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

It's home to some of the world's most famous works, like Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans and Marcel Duchamp's bicycle wheel sculpture.

But you'll probably find the biggest crowds gathered around an oil painting on the fifth

floor.

It was created in the south of France in the summer of 1889.

So Starry Night is a unicorn.

It's an extraordinary painting by an extraordinary artist that kind of escapes the force

field of any normal description.

That's Glenn Lowry.

Vincent Van Gogh's painting The Starry Knight is in his care.

I'm the director of the Museum of Modern Art.

You can probably conjure an image of the starry night in your mind.

Maybe you've seen it on a t-shirt, a poster, or an umbrella.

Or maybe you've stood in front of it at the Museum of Modern Art, better known as MoMA.

It depicts a starry night with a glowing yellowish-gold moon off in the upper right,

swirling blue-white clouds in the background, a tall twisting cypress tree in the lower-left foreground,

and a village in the distance.

Van Gogh painted the landscape when he was hospitalized in an asylum in France.

If you know one thing about Van Gogh, it's probably that he struggled with his mental health.

He cut off part of his left year the year before he made this painting, and he killed himself the year after.

There's something about the turbulence of the way the paint is applied in concentric circles and swooping lines.

There's something about the way that cypress tree vibrates or the warm glow of the moon, it is an image you can't

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