# Starry Night over LUMA Arles drone show – Drone Stories

> 600 drones brought Van Gogh's Starry Night back to the sky over Arles, above Frank Gehry's LUMA tower: a Studio DRIFT performance for 150 years of…

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Van Gogh's sky, painted again in Arles

# Starry Night over LUMA Arles

Van Gogh painted the Starry Night over the Rhône in Arles. For 150 years of Impressionism and the tenth anniversary of the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, Studio DRIFT painted it again, in the same sky: 600 drones swirling above Frank Gehry's LUMA tower.

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|---|---|
| Client | LUMA Arles · Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles |
| Location | LUMA Arles, Parc des Ateliers, Arles |
| Drones | 600 |
| Type | art |

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## The story behind the lights

LUMA Arles asked Studio DRIFT to celebrate two anniversaries at once: 150 years of Impressionism in France, and ten years of the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, the town where Van Gogh painted some of his most famous skies. Ralph Nauta and the DRIFT team used AI swarming algorithms to translate the brushstrokes of Van Gogh's paintings into movement, so that the drones do not draw a picture of the Starry Night: they move the way the paint moves.

The performance flew over the Parc des Ateliers, with the stainless-steel LUMA tower lit below it. Swirls of blue and white turned into the night sky of the painting, a burst of orange echoed the sunflowers, and the evening closed with the name of the place that made it possible written across the sky.

A Studio DRIFT performance for LUMA Arles, produced by Drone Stories. Drones by Nova Sky Stories ([a separate company](/about/#nova-sky-stories)). Film by Finn Bech, Boris Zwiers, Cineshoots and Minnaar.

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