Anime & Manga
- Fairy Ranmaru: In episode 4, the abstract world is heavily inspired by Vincent van Gogh's paintings, with the background being "The Starry Night", while the area is a field of Sunflowers (a subject that he painted extensively).
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica: In the episode "I Won't Rely On Anyone Anymore". Izabel, the artist Witch, has her Barrier's surfaces plastered with all sorts of (distorted, wavering) paintings, including The Starry Night. Its inclusion makes sense because she attacks the first timeline's Homura, who is plagued with suicidal thoughts.
- Sailor Moon: In one scene, the background is damn similar to The Starry Night
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Literature
- In one of the early Phoenix Force novels, Yakov Katzenelenbogen is at the Museum of Modern Art Waxing Lyrical on the virtues of Starry Night to his girlfriend when he gets the Avengers Assemble call.
Live-Action TV
- The 100: The survivors living in Mount Weather have a store room of classic art, including some of Van Gogh's. They end up putting "The Starry Night" in Clarke's cell with her, as a Pet the Dog moment.
- Decoy: The episode "Shadow of Van Gogh" features a Starving Artist who's so obsessed with Van Gogh that he grows a beard to look more like him, paints a near-exact replica of "The Starry Night," and even signs one of his own paintings "Vincent." Another character tells a story of him showing up to a party with a bandage wrapped around his head, holding a very realistic papier-mâché ear.
- Doctor Who. In "Vincent and the Doctor", the Eleventh Doctor and his companion Amy Pond are stargazing with Vincent van Gogh who starts describing how he sees the heavens as a canvas.Vincent: Look at the sky. It's not dark and black and without character. The black is, in fact, deep blue. And over there: lighter blue and blowing through the blues and blackness the winds swirling through the air and then shining, burning, bursting through: the stars! [the sky gradually transforms into van Gogh's painting Starry Night] And you see how they roar their light. Everywhere we look, the complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
- Supergirl: Aliens apparently highly value his work, too, as one episode has an alien art fence commissioning a theft of "The Starry Night".
Music
- The painting inspired Don McLean to write the song "Vincent" (also known by its first line, "Starry, Starry Night") in honor of the painter.
Roleplays
- NoPixel: The "Starry Night" changes hands quite often. During one situation in 2019, it gets stolen from the FBI by Davey, Jobie, Bryce, and Jeevas running in with guns drawn. Between the element of surprise and the agents being complete morons, it works. Holding onto the painting becomes a burden for Davey later on since the majority of Los Santos' underworld wants their hands on it.
Video Games
- Fall Guys: One of the color palettes obtainable from the Season 3 Legacy pass was based on and named after Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night.
- Fate/Grand Order: A gender-flipped Van Gogh paints "The Starry Night" inspired by an Outer God. The same who created her.
- "Starry Knight": Is a simple sidescrolling action game who's title is the same as the titular painting. Ironically while the game is partly a biography about Van Gogh, and his paintings are featured as locations you fight the bosses in (such as Cafe Terrace at Night and Wheatfield with Crows), Starry Night itself oddly does not.
