These questions occurred to me as I visited the two competing immersive van Gogh exhibitions in the New York City borough of Manhattan: “Immersive Van Gogh” at Pier 36 on the East River and “Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience” at Skylight on Vesey. The beauty of being swallowed by projections of van Gogh’s multicoloured fields was subdued by the sloppiness of the translation. Not the van Gogh works I remember, but at least here was the art, standing still and on its own, and without interruption. We’re meant to see the difference between the real world and van Gogh’s world as seen by a mind-reading illustrator. In search of the real van Gogh, I made my first post-pandemic museum outing to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Source: bd News24 July 19, 2021 06:00 UTC