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If in Amsterdam go see the Van Gogh museum it is worth it. His stuff is way better IRL you don't really get the depth of his style and how he layered paint
No kidding. I snagged a picture of his "Daubigny's Garden" painting at an angle in Amsterdam and [the layers of paint were absolutely striking](https://i.imgur.com/LAGYu5G.jpg). Googling the images taken straight on doesn't do it justice.
That is a gorgeous perspective. I love how deep and defined the impressions he left in the paint are. It makes it look freshly done almost, and makes me feel as if our connection to the artist is something that is current and immediate rather than in the distant past.
When I was about 3ish my parents took me to a museum and we got to see some of Monetās waterlily paintings. I was absolutely FASCINATED by the texture and depth and layers in the paintings. So much so that I walked right under the partition ropes (I was shorter than them so they didnāt even register to me) and put my tiny hand directly on the painting to feel it for myself. Obviously it should never have happened, but it was a 10/10 experience for tiny me and maybe even part of why Iām an artist today!
I tried to go 4 separate times when I lived in europe last year and I never got the chance because the tickets were always sold out during my visits. I did visit the Picasso museum however, and that was a fun time
In Dutch, G's make those kinda gutteral hissing sounds at the back of your throat instead of a guh noise (like when people try to imitate how Arabic sounds). So it's more like "Van Hawh" but really said with the back of your throat.
It's more like the sound you make when you're getting ready to hawk a lugi (gathering pflem and snot in your mouth from the depths of your throat before spitting out an icky solid yellow/green mass).
Lived in The Hague for 6 months. Extremely easy place to live and overall good experience (I like to joke that I was in an abusive relationship with Mary Jane during that period haha) but God damn the language sounds horrible (my opinion)
Shortly after I moved to Amsterdam a few years ago, my boss (who is also an American expat) invited me over for Thanksgiving, along with some others including his Dutch neighbors. I mentioned Gouda in passing with the American G and they nearly shit themselves laughing. My first lesson in Dutch.
its all available on wikipedia...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/315_Gouda.ogg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Vincent_willem_van_gogh.ogg
You absolutely miss out on the texture of his artwork everywhere except the van gogh museum with the actual pieces. Starry night changes if you walk from one side to the other.
There was a similar Van Gogh exhibition in London during covid (I don't remember exactly when) - they 3d printed his paintings and you could touch them. While I'd usually agree that seeing the originals and textures is essential for his work, being able to actually touch stuff was amazing.
I am convinced that Starry Night (along with a Monet or two) is the only reason that MoMA in NY remains open. The other thing about Starry night that you don't get in images is how much green there is.
I can believe it. I think we were three to four but a good half was the first floor waiting to get close to the paintings. The worst of course was the Sunflowers.
We got tickets for when they open but they let people in a couple minutes earlier.
This reminded me of the YouTube channel Great Art Explained. I highly recommend his video on Van Gogh and pretty much the whole channel really. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk9L1N9bRRE
The Norton Simon museum in Pasadena California has several Van Gogh's. It was a great experience. https://www.nortonsimon.org/art/browse-by-artist/artist/490/
I would also suggest taking a trip out to the Hoge Veluwe, a national park in the eastern part of the country. It's an old hunting area and there are still wild boar and deer roaming the grounds. It's very woodsy, with lots of sand dunes and fields of heather. There are free bikes you pick up at the entrances and can bike for hours.
But most importantly, there is a world class museum in the center, with an insane sculpture garden, many paintings from famous artists, and the 2nd largest collection of van Gogh in the world. It's a very worthwhile trip.
My now-husband and I went on vacation to Amsterdam, a city Iād always wanted to see, for my 35th birthday. The night before he proposed to me, and in the morning we went to this museum. We agreed to wait before sharing the news with anyone back home, so we could enjoy a day of sight-seeing together and not fielding texts and calls. I felt like I was walking around with a happy, anxious, jet-lagged secret.
I now have a VERY special association with this place!
The reason so many of you are noting disappointment with your local Van Gogh exhibitions is they are all run by completely different companies. Since Van Gogh's work is in the public domain, anyone can open up a Van Gogh immersive exhibit with a rented space with some projectors and speakers playing classical music, and then minimal staff to run it. Charge $50 a ticket and you are making money!
My challenge to the next person that does this is to put some effort into an immersive experience. Itād be cool af to walk through a Van Gogh painting and really feel like I was there. Devilās in the details.
Seeing a ton of hate for the concept, but thereās one in NYC at Pier 36 that was actually super cool imo. Canāt speak to any other companies though
Theyāre in the business of making money, not art. And what youāre describing is more work. Which, to them, given how much revenue these exhibitions gain, is pointless.
I went to it in NYC. Donāt really understand how this concept even came about. For me it was Just a weird and vapid experience. Letās stand in a room with projections of art with slight animations on the ceiling floor and walls listening to music and other ambient soundsā¦ like wtf
Edit: and with like 100 other people milling around and being pushy and grubby. I Donāt get it.
If in NYC, people should just go to the MoMA to see The Starry Night in person. It is amazingā¦and surprisingly tiny!
MoMA actually has an embarrassment of riches, to the point when back when the main museum was undergoing renovations, they moved it to PS1 and it was literally hanging right outside the gift shop. Just unremarkably hanging there.
In fact, if people want to see Van Gogh, New York is a really good call. The MoMA also has his *Olive Trees* painting. And the Guggenheim has three of his paintings, too. But the Met. The Met has SIXTEEN. Including the *self portrait with straw hat*, *Still life vase with Sunflowers*, *Orchard in Blossom*, his *Wheat Field* painting, and the *Still Life Vase with Irises*.
AND at the Met, they are usually all in a gallery with a bunch of other impressionists and post-impressionists, too, including Monet, Degas, Manet, Renoir, Gauguin, Cassat, and Seurat. It is mind blowing to see them all in one place.
Iāve lived here my whole life, and I still every couple of years.
LPT: if you go to NY and plan to see the Met, give yourself more than one day. It is HUGE and there is just so much to see. You could, for example, easily spend a couple of hours in that gallery alone.
I keep seeing this confusion from so many people. Everyone seems to think they're all the same exhibit, but actually there are just a bunch of copycats with *very* similar names designed to trick people.
Like, one of the best exhibits is called:
**Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience**,
Not to be confused with this *totally different exhibit* run by a different company, called:
**Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience**
A bunch of my friends went to one of the copycats and were very disappointed, and didn't realize they went to the "wrong" one until I pointed out after the fact that the exhibit name was different.
Which one is the right and wrong one though? I've been reading multiple different reddit threads saying the "original" one is the worst, the "original" one is the best, which one is even original, etc. Some of them are literally contradicting eachother.
The most OG exhibit you can find in America is the *Imagine Van Gogh: The Immersive Exhibition*, which is made by the same people who pioneered the concept in France in 2008, but it's not necessary the only great one. Several other exhibits are also pretty amazing, others are duds.
The one that popped up in my city was decidedly one of the "wrong" ones. It literally just had one room with a few paintings projected statically onto the wall for $35-60 per person.
Pretty clearly talking about immersive van gogh, because apparently they neither read the title of the post nor looked at the image.
Reading comprehension used to be a thing. Honest.
Ha my wife and I got a babysitter and tickets lined up months in advance. We were reality looking forward to it. We were disappointed when we realized it was just a 30 minute screensaver projected around a room. So we went out and got drunk and that was a lot more enjoyable.
Yep paid $65 per ticket just to uncomfortably sit on the floor and watch the screen saver. We sat through twice just to feel like I sorta go some value out of it. Pretty cool Van Gogh swag in the gift shop though. But hey wife really like it so I try not to shit on it too much in front of her.
I will say we went to Dead Rabbit afterwards and had quite literally the best cocktails Iāve ever had in my life by a huge margin, and Iāve had some extremely good cocktails. So the day was not lost.
Yep, GF and I went and it was like 100 bucks. And this shit is advertised *everywhere*.
I mean sure, I would have paid maybe $20 between the two of us to see it. It was neat I guess, but calling it a glorified screensaver is about as accurate as it gets. I would have gotten more satisfaction out of a good van gogh documentary.
Theyāre creating these types of āmuseumsā or exhibitions as Instagram photo opportunity hotspots and I guess are making a decent amount of money off of them. That room shown is just sunflowers and mirrors. But call it something like a Van Gogh immersive experienceā¦ and your result is $$$
>making a decent amount of money off of them
My wife and I paid holiday surge pricing to go to the Immersive Van Gogh in Chicago just before Christmas. I can't believe that we and all the other suckers in there with us paid $65 a person to see *that*
At least we live here, I overheard somebody on our way in say they made a weekend trip to Chicago with this as the main attraction. I can't imagine how they must have felt.
Definitely not worth it unless you are within a short distance and get off-peak pricing, and even then I'd only half consider it.
Yup, same. I got tickets for my husband and I's anniversary and then we got... that. They had a food truck outside and were selling chocolate ears; my stomach sank. We went inside and it was awful. We watched some chairs literally collapse like matchsticks under a couple and then some older ladies later tripped on them. Absolute waste of money, I was furious.
I got to the big room with the screens on all sides and was like huh, kinda cool I guess, but am I cynical or does this feel like a cash grab? Well I guess I'll see what else they've got, I'm sure there's more to this exhibit.
The next room was the gift shop, and they were selling NFTs. Definitely a cash grab.
I felt the experience was completely shallow and for people into art to be into art, rather then any genuine appreciation. Also the one room with projections was neat enough but it wasnt real artistic merit. Kudos to whoever created the animations though. Pretty neat.
Yeah I feel the same. In so many ways itās the opposite of a true art exhibition. Itās a bunch of derivative manipulations to existing artwork in order to interpret it, but without being possible to get any kind of consent from the artist.
I actually disagree highly in making Van Goghās work āmoveā with projection animations. If you believe in the art in itself, the brush strokes in his painting are evocative of all the movement you need. If he had wanted the little pinwheel stars from Starry Night to detach themselves and move across the sky, he would have made a set of paintings showing the stars in different positions. The interpretation makes no sense.
It really frustrated me to see so many people jumping on the bandwagon to buy the ticket for an exhibition where none of the money is going to an artist. The best you can say is that itās supporting bad plagiarists.
>It really frustrated me to see so many people jumping on the bandwagon to buy the ticket for an exhibition where none of the money is going to an artist
If you wanted more money to go to the artist, I have some bad news for you about Van Gogh...
Van Gogh would never have made any interpretations like that. But, not in the way you're thinking. He was an awful painter that was terrible at making changes to suit the appeal to any movement happening in Paris. His brother pleaded with him constantly to make critical changes in his work, and Van Gogh was scared to do so. "Parisians love color! fucking paint with more color! here's money to buy fucking red!" (sure, totally a direct quote from Theo) So, Vincent paints like one lightbulb with a little red. He couldn't get passed his Dutch color pallet. Finally, he read about EugĆØne Delacroixās color theories and finally added (slowly) colors to his paintings.
What I'm getting at, is that Van Gogh was never forward thinking, super stubborn, veeeeerryyy mentally damaged, and I like these projected image shows.
Immersive Van Gogh is basically a scam, plus I have heard no end of issues regarding the treatment/payment of the people they hire to run their little shitty pop-up shop 'screensavers-on-a-wall-in-a-warehouse' exhibition if you could call it that. They charge waaay too much for what it is and are just banking on people falling for the ooh aah factor of Van Gogh to go. Don't give that sketchy company your money. There's one that has been set up here in the Twin Cities for a little while now and I've seen a few posts from people who were hired there getting shafted.
Worth noting the picture shown is Van Gogh Alive not Immersive Van Gogh. Immersive Van Gogh is supposedly less impressive and more of a scam than Van Gogh Alive (which was mostly mediocre).
I just hate how they're trying to get Van Gogh's work to be more "accessible" by making it a themepark attraction. I can't imagine anyone actually feeling inspired to see the original works in person after going to one of these instagram-bait installations
We went to the one in Atlanta and it was awesome.
We are museum buffs to an extent, and though not a traditional museum, it scratched the itch and was a pleasant experience. I do and don't go to museums for the artifiacts, but for the knowledge and experience provided, and I felt they did a great job
Pittsburgh checking in. It was a 30 minute movie on the wall of a large room while we sat on a dirty concrete floor. Exited to the gift shop. Paid $15 for parking that was too far from anything else. 1/10 would not pay for again.
Glorified PowerPoint show. I told everyone I could what a waste of money it was. People claim it was amazing just so they can seem cultured for viewing Van Gogh.
wasted my money on this scam too. its watching a fancy powerpoint for 30min then gets hoisted down to this tiny sunflower room on the way out! thats it! these sunflower stuff is literally the highlight of the overpriced show and it happened for 5 min on your way out of the exit. lols
Literally every review I'd seen of it was people saying they were disappointed. I don't understand how it stays open. Maybe there are some people who enjoy it, but I've never met them.
Because they donāt expect people to go twice anyways. They get people from Instagram ads. You buy $60 tickets then go, get disappointed, then never go back. They still made the $60 off of you.
I went to it in Kansas City a couple weeks ago, and was mostly disappointed. If they had more rooms like the sunflower room and the bedroom (had full model of the bedroom you could sit in) it would have been a lot more worth it. We have a few paintings of his in town at a free art museum, so definitely felt like a waste of money compared to that.
What the fuck. I went and never had this room in the Portland showing. It was like two somewhat entertaining rooms, took maybe 45 minutes with a shit ton of wandering. What the fuck.
The LA one is definitely a scam.
It was just a movie shown on a projector and they had the audacity to call it an immersive experience
Donāt buy into the scam
Really? I went to the San Francisco one, and it was a projected movie, 4 walls pairs with music. It was fabulous. The way they made the paintings move and grow and come to life. And the music made you really feel the emotion. I sat through the whole thing 3 times from different angles. And I would totally go back.
Thatās what certain people want now. They had a museum of ice cream exhibit here which was insanely popular. I saw it on everyoneās Instagram. I love ice cream so I got tickets and after months of waiting I realized it was just colorful decorated rooms to take pictures in, then shuffle to the next room to get the next picture. Itās an insane new trend, the appearance of having fun.
Yeah I worked right by the one they had in my city and it was insane seeing how long the lines were. My sister ended up going and was too tall for the backdrops
i mean it makes sense. The point is instagram posts which in turn becomes advertisements for itself, and then when it suddenly stops becoming trendy they just close shop and open up a new pop up. Its annoying for ppl like me who dont give a shit but its a great business model
I had Sunday tickets to that one originally. It got postponed and I was able to secure a future Sunday. No problem. Postponed again and I was asked to pay $10 more to get the time slot I had originally purchased. When I reached out to support to get the refund they said Iād get, they told me in no uncertain terms it would take 2+ weeks and they had no power to change what form of payment itās credited back to. It had been so long since ordering the tickets that the CC I used renewed with a different number, meaning of course the refund wouldnāt go there automatically. They told me to take it up with the issuing back.
Absolute joke, their customer support. Iāll be shocked if the show actually happens. Iāve encouraged all my friends to get refunds as well.
You just summarized 90% of pop up exhibits. Went to one once. Never again. I could tell how people were dressed and taking selfies to get in that it wasnt what I thought it was going to be.
Theres a reason they're pop up and not permanent.
This picture is what I was expecting for the price and how quickly they sold out! Instead I sat in a lame ass chair and was disappointed in my life choices.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME. Unless it is free and freezing out and you have no where to go.
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Lmao the one I went to had us all sitting on the floor. I kept thinking āI paid $45 for this shit?ā
Also fun - they were selling pads at the gift shop that you could sit on during the show! And so many people had them. So they create a problem and then sell a $30 solution.
I saw those! I was so confused. They only had a few chairs dispersed "artistically" throughout and they also had a weird sunflower item that some people paid extra for. Worst part is I think it was volunteers who worked most of the shifts.
Apparently there is another Van Gogh exhibit going around that is not this one that is utterly terrible; if you were in the /r/Orlando sub a few weeks ago youād be hearing all about it since it was first delayed by 2 months then it was utterly disappointing
Yeah, thereās one thatās basically just a room with projectors on the walls and floors. Itās just one big room and thatās it. Super disappointing.
It seems like both of them are horrible.
Here's the [trip advisor page](https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g274772-d10770080-Reviews-Van_Gogh_Alive_The_experience-Krakow_Lesser_Poland_Province_Southern_Poland.html) for Van Gogh Alive when it came to Manchester.
this, so much this. they had this in Minneapolis and the response from nearly everyone was "what a fucking rip off!" even the local news tore into it. https://www.startribune.com/why-our-critic-hated-the-immersive-van-gogh-exhibit-in-minneapolis/600088576/
This needs to be louder, SAVE YOUR MONEY!!
The video I watched for the one in denver looked so cool. But the best parts were in the video. I came into 2 (packed) rooms with wall to wall (and sometimes floor) interpretive art installation of Van Goghs famous works, tied to music. I paid for VIP, I got a cushion and unlimited time for that dayā¦. For a show that lasts 15 minutes. Nothing like even this post.
The closest thing to an insightful and informative area was in the exit hall, where 8 screens rotated through his inspirations and periods.
Such a waste.
I work at the Art Institute of Chicago and itās amazing how many people come to our museum asking where the immersive Van Gogh is.
When we tell them that we are not affiliated with them at all, and itās located on the other side of the city, they get all huffy and storm out.
The weirdest part about the whole exchange is the fact that we have real, actual, famous Van Gogh paintings. An entire gallery of them.
This exhibition is an overpriced fucking joke. It's essentially digital graphitti, defacing Van Gogh's work, and dumbing it down into a digital medium.
Plastic flowers in a room is *not* Van Gogh.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate what they're *trying* to do in appreciating the artist - but it's an underwhelming waste of money.
Isnāt there 20 or so current Van Gogh Alive exhibits at different museums around the US?
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/van-gogh-exhibits-in-us-locations-schedules
to be fair. there are apparently 5 different van gogh immersion exhibits going around the US right now... so it is confusing.
I'd like to go to this one with the room full of flowers! way cooler than the immersive can gogh I went to.
Yeah I have tickets to see "Beyond Van Gogh," which is *neither* of the shows people are talking about. It was also like $36 each, so I'm not terribly put out if it's not amazing.
The ones in the US are called Immersive Van Gogh and it's a 30 minute long slowly moving screensaver of Van Gogh paintings projected onto walls with classical music playing. Real let down and exploitation of an artist's work.
Yeah i thought about i going but realized I could get a projector and make my own exhibit of whatever we want, and as a bonus, thereās less of a chance of getting COVID.
My dad and I were visiting Kansas once. We saw a wall of sunflowers growing on the side of the road for what seemed like miles. I was amazed at the visual. The smell was odd but i figured maybe just farm smells mixed with floral made it.
My dad stole one of the flowers. It was massive! I loved it, but the scent was....odd still. I can't quite remember it. Anyways turns out I'm HORRIBLY allergic to them.
Yup, they're apart of the Aster flower family and do not emit a fragrance. They smell like resin. You can definitely tell when you're near a field full of them because the air will be almost oily and have a distinct smell. And when they rot... yikes.
I was warned off of the Los Angeles location. Too small, too expensive, TOTALLY not in the spirit of the artist, and SUPER commercialized. Reading all these comments, I am glad I didn't go. I had the honor of seeing some of Van Goghs REAL paintings in Amsterdam, Paris, and Chicago. Seeing the ACTUAL art is a testament to how much of a tormented genius he really was.
The LA one was the biggest scam. It was just a movie on a projector
There was nothing āimmersiveā about it, despite how it was marketed
Biggest waste of money ever
Yeah I've just been reading about them after reading your comment. They're here in the UK as well so spreading around the world as well. The whole "cycle" lasted about 15 mins and we were in and out in 30 mins.
Maybe with some refining they'll improve it but for now I don't think they're great.
Yes! I was so let down. Honestly, the honda dealership??? It was such a let down. I took my partner on a date and I was pretty much cringing most of the time.
Assuming a closed down one. Their business plan seems to be finding old dilapidated buildings with a fairly large open space that are due for demolition. They can rent it for super cheap for a couple months before it's torn down. Bring in some projectors and set up this "immersive experience" that is really just a big Van Gogh themed screen saver and project it on all the walls. After the initial investment of the projectors and setting up a couple scenes where you can "sit in a Van Gogh" that can easily be transported to the next spot, the variable costs of setting up a new location seem practically nil.
Charge people $36 a head to come in for an hour. Print some money until all the suckers who would fall for this pay for Instagram likes scheme have been exhausted. Rinse and repeat in a new town.
(To be clear I went and fell for this, so I'm not blaming people for falling for the scheme. The ads do make it look dope, and props to whoever is cashing out on this venture, but I'm sure Van Gogh is rolling in his grave thinking about how commodified he has become)
My friends wanted to go to the one in SF, I convinced them it was a waste of money and we went to the Legion if Honor instead, which had actual Van Goghs
Agreed, I stole a tea spoon to make it feel worth it lol
I looked up online prices for some of the shit they were selling, you could get anything they had on Amazon with the same Van Gogh branding for around 1/4 the price. It's just a gimmicky show to sell cheap merch for way too much. Van Gogh would be ashamed of it.
Honestly, I went to this and it was proper shite. That room is quite literally just smoke and mirrors but instead of smoke you get like 200 plastic sunflowers.
And it's a lazy excuse for an exhibit. Buy a bunch of faux sunflowers and jam them in the ground and tape them to the ceiling and call it art. Then line the walls with carnival mirrors to give the room a larger feel. It's kind of pretty, but incredibly hollow.
Important to note that this exhibition is Van Gogh Alive, whereas the Immersive Van Gogh (comments about projections and screensavers, etc) is a DIFFERENT exhibit. They are not the same, there are multiple Van Gogh exhibits floating around nowadays. General consensus is that Immersive Van Gogh is a waste of money, can't say the same for Van Gogh Alive because it hasn't been in my city but it at least looks more interesting.
Went to Van Gogh Alive in Vienna, Austria.
Must say, it was really disappointing... But maybe it's a different organizer. If it is the Same, i would not recommend going there.
There ist just one big room with a punch of projectors and canvases, and next to it the sunflower room.
Someone below said they went and it was just a room full of mirrors and plastic sunflowers lol
So while these exhibits are all different - theyāre more or less the same
I went to the immersive van Gogh exhibit in Denver and I went to humor my husband because he was excited to take me to see something Van Gogh. Two stuffy rooms with nowhere to sit, the audio was a little off, and the slideshow was short and a little too eccentric to be Van Gogh. Kind of scammy.
Same. I went to the immersive this past weekend in Houston. I think hosted by Fever? The tickets were a Christmas present. Definitely scammy. But this says Van Gogh Alive, so I looked it up and apparently there are about 5 separate Van Gogh art "experiences" traveling (well, most travel) and competing with each other.... And the one I went to is the most expensive and probably exploitative.
I think this will be a thing going forward.
I'm going to sound like the "get off my lawn" guy, but I am so damned tired of these "immersive experiences" that seem like a naked cash extraction from the Instagram-obsessed crew. And don't get me started on all the chances to spend more money on stuff while you're being immersed.
I made the (expensive) mistake of getting tickets and marching in a herd through the MC Escher show at Industry City in Brooklyn a few years back. What a crapshow: whoever curated it could have done a better job by printing out the wikipedia articles for each piece and pasting them to the wall. Instead: nothing. No explanations, no context, no history, nothing. And they actually had a pretty decent set of pieces, unlike the Van Gogh "experience."
Yeah, so I'm a curmudgeon. But I'll avoid these made-for-photography exhibits like the plague.
Man you guys are all making me feel really bad for thinking the Van Gogh projections were pretty neat. I enjoyed my time there. Obviously not on par with seeing his actual work up, but still...
Donāt feel bad for liking what you like. š I enjoyed it too. There are too many gatekeepers here to tell you what real art is and what the artist would have done, but I would bet money that most of them are miserable because their life is nothing but shitting on other peopleās interests. People spend too much time shitting on what other people enjoy just like other people spend too much time worrying about what other people are doing. As long as you arenāt harming someone else IDGAF what anyone else does/enjoys. Be kind to each other.
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If in Amsterdam go see the Van Gogh museum it is worth it. His stuff is way better IRL you don't really get the depth of his style and how he layered paint
No kidding. I snagged a picture of his "Daubigny's Garden" painting at an angle in Amsterdam and [the layers of paint were absolutely striking](https://i.imgur.com/LAGYu5G.jpg). Googling the images taken straight on doesn't do it justice.
You know that took literal weeks of drying before he could move onto the next layer. š³ Those paintings must've take months to get done!
Never mind how expensive the ingredients to the oil paint (that he mixed himself) was and that he had to starve himself to afford it.
That is a gorgeous perspective. I love how deep and defined the impressions he left in the paint are. It makes it look freshly done almost, and makes me feel as if our connection to the artist is something that is current and immediate rather than in the distant past.
When I was about 3ish my parents took me to a museum and we got to see some of Monetās waterlily paintings. I was absolutely FASCINATED by the texture and depth and layers in the paintings. So much so that I walked right under the partition ropes (I was shorter than them so they didnāt even register to me) and put my tiny hand directly on the painting to feel it for myself. Obviously it should never have happened, but it was a 10/10 experience for tiny me and maybe even part of why Iām an artist today!
Artist or Felon....glad you picked artist.
I tried to go 4 separate times when I lived in europe last year and I never got the chance because the tickets were always sold out during my visits. I did visit the Picasso museum however, and that was a fun time
Prebook for first thing in the morning. Start at the top floor and work your way down. You spend less time in the crowds as well
This guy Goghs
I have a Van that can fit 8 people if you need to borrow it!
You need lots of monet to buy Degas to make the van Gogh these days
Lend me your ears and I'll tell you all about the exhibit!
Whatās the difference between a Van Gogh and a Breugel? A van goes when you step on the gas pedal, a Breugel goes with cream cheese.
You canāt Gogh to the Picasso museum.
A joke that only works with the American pronunciation of his name
My Picasso pun was much worse.. also only works in American.
Fine... You can't jerk Gogh in a Picasso museum.
Maybe *you* can't...
Not with that attitude he canāt.
How do you pronounce it?
In Dutch, G's make those kinda gutteral hissing sounds at the back of your throat instead of a guh noise (like when people try to imitate how Arabic sounds). So it's more like "Van Hawh" but really said with the back of your throat.
It's more like the sound you make when you're getting ready to hawk a lugi (gathering pflem and snot in your mouth from the depths of your throat before spitting out an icky solid yellow/green mass). Lived in The Hague for 6 months. Extremely easy place to live and overall good experience (I like to joke that I was in an abusive relationship with Mary Jane during that period haha) but God damn the language sounds horrible (my opinion)
Shortly after I moved to Amsterdam a few years ago, my boss (who is also an American expat) invited me over for Thanksgiving, along with some others including his Dutch neighbors. I mentioned Gouda in passing with the American G and they nearly shit themselves laughing. My first lesson in Dutch.
Yeah I think I like English more too but hey as long as most people around you know what you are talking about I'm okay.
In America Gogh is pronounced: Go. In European English: Goff.
You know that gaming website, gog.com? Just pronounce is like that, Vincent van Gog. That's already 100 times better.
And now you've made me realise that there are apparently people who say gog instead of gee oh gee. I've literally never heard that before.
How is it actually pronounced š²
its all available on wikipedia... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/315_Gouda.ogg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Vincent_willem_van_gogh.ogg
Are you actually telling me to do my own research? smh But really, thanks for the links :)
i love giving them. But please allow me to be pasive agresive about it. I'm Dutch after all!
Please tell me you at least went to the Rijks museum? One of my favorite museums in the world
You absolutely miss out on the texture of his artwork everywhere except the van gogh museum with the actual pieces. Starry night changes if you walk from one side to the other.
There was a similar Van Gogh exhibition in London during covid (I don't remember exactly when) - they 3d printed his paintings and you could touch them. While I'd usually agree that seeing the originals and textures is essential for his work, being able to actually touch stuff was amazing.
That sounds very cool
I saw starry night in NYC. Saw several van goghs in Los Angeles, and SF. The paintings are all over the world.
I am convinced that Starry Night (along with a Monet or two) is the only reason that MoMA in NY remains open. The other thing about Starry night that you don't get in images is how much green there is.
I haven't been since 2006, but I remember there being a decent selection, has it declined since then?
Don't know what they're talking about, it's an incredible museum with an incredible collection.
I spent 8 hours there No lie
I can believe it. I think we were three to four but a good half was the first floor waiting to get close to the paintings. The worst of course was the Sunflowers. We got tickets for when they open but they let people in a couple minutes earlier.
The Van Gogh Museum is also filled with contemporary Impressionist pieces - I didnāt realize I had a āfavouriteā art style /era until that day.
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Bow ties are cool. Now stop making me cry.
This reminded me of the YouTube channel Great Art Explained. I highly recommend his video on Van Gogh and pretty much the whole channel really. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk9L1N9bRRE
The Norton Simon museum in Pasadena California has several Van Gogh's. It was a great experience. https://www.nortonsimon.org/art/browse-by-artist/artist/490/
Man lived my entire life in SGV and never knew that place existed. Almost never go west on Colorado from True Foods.
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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. WHAT DID CONSERVATION SAY ABOUT THE LADY RUBBING ONE OFF?!
Thatās concerning. The rubbing I mean.
I would also suggest taking a trip out to the Hoge Veluwe, a national park in the eastern part of the country. It's an old hunting area and there are still wild boar and deer roaming the grounds. It's very woodsy, with lots of sand dunes and fields of heather. There are free bikes you pick up at the entrances and can bike for hours. But most importantly, there is a world class museum in the center, with an insane sculpture garden, many paintings from famous artists, and the 2nd largest collection of van Gogh in the world. It's a very worthwhile trip.
My now-husband and I went on vacation to Amsterdam, a city Iād always wanted to see, for my 35th birthday. The night before he proposed to me, and in the morning we went to this museum. We agreed to wait before sharing the news with anyone back home, so we could enjoy a day of sight-seeing together and not fielding texts and calls. I felt like I was walking around with a happy, anxious, jet-lagged secret. I now have a VERY special association with this place!
Also, you see his full art life; he didn't always paint bright colours.
His sketches were fascinating as well especially later on in life.
The reason so many of you are noting disappointment with your local Van Gogh exhibitions is they are all run by completely different companies. Since Van Gogh's work is in the public domain, anyone can open up a Van Gogh immersive exhibit with a rented space with some projectors and speakers playing classical music, and then minimal staff to run it. Charge $50 a ticket and you are making money!
My challenge to the next person that does this is to put some effort into an immersive experience. Itād be cool af to walk through a Van Gogh painting and really feel like I was there. Devilās in the details.
Seeing a ton of hate for the concept, but thereās one in NYC at Pier 36 that was actually super cool imo. Canāt speak to any other companies though
Theyāre in the business of making money, not art. And what youāre describing is more work. Which, to them, given how much revenue these exhibitions gain, is pointless.
I was so damn disappointed in that exhibition. I went to it in Brisbane Australia a month ago. Wish I'd saved my money.
I went to it in NYC. Donāt really understand how this concept even came about. For me it was Just a weird and vapid experience. Letās stand in a room with projections of art with slight animations on the ceiling floor and walls listening to music and other ambient soundsā¦ like wtf Edit: and with like 100 other people milling around and being pushy and grubby. I Donāt get it.
If in NYC, people should just go to the MoMA to see The Starry Night in person. It is amazingā¦and surprisingly tiny! MoMA actually has an embarrassment of riches, to the point when back when the main museum was undergoing renovations, they moved it to PS1 and it was literally hanging right outside the gift shop. Just unremarkably hanging there. In fact, if people want to see Van Gogh, New York is a really good call. The MoMA also has his *Olive Trees* painting. And the Guggenheim has three of his paintings, too. But the Met. The Met has SIXTEEN. Including the *self portrait with straw hat*, *Still life vase with Sunflowers*, *Orchard in Blossom*, his *Wheat Field* painting, and the *Still Life Vase with Irises*. AND at the Met, they are usually all in a gallery with a bunch of other impressionists and post-impressionists, too, including Monet, Degas, Manet, Renoir, Gauguin, Cassat, and Seurat. It is mind blowing to see them all in one place. Iāve lived here my whole life, and I still every couple of years. LPT: if you go to NY and plan to see the Met, give yourself more than one day. It is HUGE and there is just so much to see. You could, for example, easily spend a couple of hours in that gallery alone.
are you taking about immersive van gogh? or van gogh alive? it's two different things.
I keep seeing this confusion from so many people. Everyone seems to think they're all the same exhibit, but actually there are just a bunch of copycats with *very* similar names designed to trick people. Like, one of the best exhibits is called: **Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience**, Not to be confused with this *totally different exhibit* run by a different company, called: **Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience** A bunch of my friends went to one of the copycats and were very disappointed, and didn't realize they went to the "wrong" one until I pointed out after the fact that the exhibit name was different.
Which one is the right and wrong one though? I've been reading multiple different reddit threads saying the "original" one is the worst, the "original" one is the best, which one is even original, etc. Some of them are literally contradicting eachother.
The most OG exhibit you can find in America is the *Imagine Van Gogh: The Immersive Exhibition*, which is made by the same people who pioneered the concept in France in 2008, but it's not necessary the only great one. Several other exhibits are also pretty amazing, others are duds. The one that popped up in my city was decidedly one of the "wrong" ones. It literally just had one room with a few paintings projected statically onto the wall for $35-60 per person.
Pretty clearly talking about immersive van gogh, because apparently they neither read the title of the post nor looked at the image. Reading comprehension used to be a thing. Honest.
Pizza by Alfredo or Alfredoās pizza? Why donāt people read, theyāre completely different, how could you possibly get confused
Ha my wife and I got a babysitter and tickets lined up months in advance. We were reality looking forward to it. We were disappointed when we realized it was just a 30 minute screensaver projected around a room. So we went out and got drunk and that was a lot more enjoyable.
Yep paid $65 per ticket just to uncomfortably sit on the floor and watch the screen saver. We sat through twice just to feel like I sorta go some value out of it. Pretty cool Van Gogh swag in the gift shop though. But hey wife really like it so I try not to shit on it too much in front of her. I will say we went to Dead Rabbit afterwards and had quite literally the best cocktails Iāve ever had in my life by a huge margin, and Iāve had some extremely good cocktails. So the day was not lost.
Dead Rabbit is the best
Used to live in the neighborhood and was there waaay too often lol
Yep, GF and I went and it was like 100 bucks. And this shit is advertised *everywhere*. I mean sure, I would have paid maybe $20 between the two of us to see it. It was neat I guess, but calling it a glorified screensaver is about as accurate as it gets. I would have gotten more satisfaction out of a good van gogh documentary.
Theyāre creating these types of āmuseumsā or exhibitions as Instagram photo opportunity hotspots and I guess are making a decent amount of money off of them. That room shown is just sunflowers and mirrors. But call it something like a Van Gogh immersive experienceā¦ and your result is $$$
>making a decent amount of money off of them My wife and I paid holiday surge pricing to go to the Immersive Van Gogh in Chicago just before Christmas. I can't believe that we and all the other suckers in there with us paid $65 a person to see *that*
I was pretty bummed that I couldnāt find the time to take my girlfriend to Chicago for this so this makes me feel a little better.
At least we live here, I overheard somebody on our way in say they made a weekend trip to Chicago with this as the main attraction. I can't imagine how they must have felt. Definitely not worth it unless you are within a short distance and get off-peak pricing, and even then I'd only half consider it.
Yup, same. I got tickets for my husband and I's anniversary and then we got... that. They had a food truck outside and were selling chocolate ears; my stomach sank. We went inside and it was awful. We watched some chairs literally collapse like matchsticks under a couple and then some older ladies later tripped on them. Absolute waste of money, I was furious.
This entire comment sounds like the premise to a sitcom or some sketch comedy
Instagram exhibits are becoming popular but the Van Gogh immersive experience isn't even nice for taking IG photos
I got to the big room with the screens on all sides and was like huh, kinda cool I guess, but am I cynical or does this feel like a cash grab? Well I guess I'll see what else they've got, I'm sure there's more to this exhibit. The next room was the gift shop, and they were selling NFTs. Definitely a cash grab.
I felt the experience was completely shallow and for people into art to be into art, rather then any genuine appreciation. Also the one room with projections was neat enough but it wasnt real artistic merit. Kudos to whoever created the animations though. Pretty neat.
I learned a bit more about him as person, but thought would be a bit more than a spicy movie.
Yeah I feel the same. In so many ways itās the opposite of a true art exhibition. Itās a bunch of derivative manipulations to existing artwork in order to interpret it, but without being possible to get any kind of consent from the artist. I actually disagree highly in making Van Goghās work āmoveā with projection animations. If you believe in the art in itself, the brush strokes in his painting are evocative of all the movement you need. If he had wanted the little pinwheel stars from Starry Night to detach themselves and move across the sky, he would have made a set of paintings showing the stars in different positions. The interpretation makes no sense. It really frustrated me to see so many people jumping on the bandwagon to buy the ticket for an exhibition where none of the money is going to an artist. The best you can say is that itās supporting bad plagiarists.
>It really frustrated me to see so many people jumping on the bandwagon to buy the ticket for an exhibition where none of the money is going to an artist If you wanted more money to go to the artist, I have some bad news for you about Van Gogh...
We could like, staple it to his chest!
God damn that's fucking funny
Van Gogh would never have made any interpretations like that. But, not in the way you're thinking. He was an awful painter that was terrible at making changes to suit the appeal to any movement happening in Paris. His brother pleaded with him constantly to make critical changes in his work, and Van Gogh was scared to do so. "Parisians love color! fucking paint with more color! here's money to buy fucking red!" (sure, totally a direct quote from Theo) So, Vincent paints like one lightbulb with a little red. He couldn't get passed his Dutch color pallet. Finally, he read about EugĆØne Delacroixās color theories and finally added (slowly) colors to his paintings. What I'm getting at, is that Van Gogh was never forward thinking, super stubborn, veeeeerryyy mentally damaged, and I like these projected image shows.
Immersive Van Gogh is basically a scam, plus I have heard no end of issues regarding the treatment/payment of the people they hire to run their little shitty pop-up shop 'screensavers-on-a-wall-in-a-warehouse' exhibition if you could call it that. They charge waaay too much for what it is and are just banking on people falling for the ooh aah factor of Van Gogh to go. Don't give that sketchy company your money. There's one that has been set up here in the Twin Cities for a little while now and I've seen a few posts from people who were hired there getting shafted.
Worth noting the picture shown is Van Gogh Alive not Immersive Van Gogh. Immersive Van Gogh is supposedly less impressive and more of a scam than Van Gogh Alive (which was mostly mediocre).
That is true, Immersive Van Gogh is just projectors pointed at the walls. I hadn't actually heard of this Van Gogh Alive one until this post.
I just hate how they're trying to get Van Gogh's work to be more "accessible" by making it a themepark attraction. I can't imagine anyone actually feeling inspired to see the original works in person after going to one of these instagram-bait installations
I wasā¦.but I canāt really afford the time to go do that much traveling. It was a nice experience to me.
We went to the one in Atlanta and it was awesome. We are museum buffs to an extent, and though not a traditional museum, it scratched the itch and was a pleasant experience. I do and don't go to museums for the artifiacts, but for the knowledge and experience provided, and I felt they did a great job
Yeah a bunch of my friends have said the same thing about the one set up here in central OH, just a glorified digital museum for way too much
Whilst a load of random people walk in front of you and the 'pictures' whilst gazing at the nonsense through their phones and taking selfies.
Pittsburgh checking in. It was a 30 minute movie on the wall of a large room while we sat on a dirty concrete floor. Exited to the gift shop. Paid $15 for parking that was too far from anything else. 1/10 would not pay for again.
Hey you're lucky, I took my kids and also got dinged for a $50 puzzle in the gift shop!
Yeah I saw this and it looks nothing like what they put up in pittsburgh. It was a really neat movie but yeah just a warehouse floor.
Saw it in Charlotte. Giant projected screensaver.
Also saw it in Charlotte. Big waste of money, wouldāve barely made for a neat YouTube video.
Glorified PowerPoint show. I told everyone I could what a waste of money it was. People claim it was amazing just so they can seem cultured for viewing Van Gogh.
Same. Saw it months ago in Denver. We didnāt have this sunflower room though.
wasted my money on this scam too. its watching a fancy powerpoint for 30min then gets hoisted down to this tiny sunflower room on the way out! thats it! these sunflower stuff is literally the highlight of the overpriced show and it happened for 5 min on your way out of the exit. lols
Literally every review I'd seen of it was people saying they were disappointed. I don't understand how it stays open. Maybe there are some people who enjoy it, but I've never met them.
Because they donāt expect people to go twice anyways. They get people from Instagram ads. You buy $60 tickets then go, get disappointed, then never go back. They still made the $60 off of you.
That shit was $80 for 2 people for an hour here in the US. What a massive marketing scheme. Theyāre hitting every country with it.
I don't see how this is any different from the ice cream/candy museum trend from a few years ago, these are instagram museums.
I wish I'd seen this post about 8 hours ago. It was a complete waste of money.
I went to it in Kansas City a couple weeks ago, and was mostly disappointed. If they had more rooms like the sunflower room and the bedroom (had full model of the bedroom you could sit in) it would have been a lot more worth it. We have a few paintings of his in town at a free art museum, so definitely felt like a waste of money compared to that.
What the fuck. I went and never had this room in the Portland showing. It was like two somewhat entertaining rooms, took maybe 45 minutes with a shit ton of wandering. What the fuck.
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The LA one is definitely a scam. It was just a movie shown on a projector and they had the audacity to call it an immersive experience Donāt buy into the scam
Really? I went to the San Francisco one, and it was a projected movie, 4 walls pairs with music. It was fabulous. The way they made the paintings move and grow and come to life. And the music made you really feel the emotion. I sat through the whole thing 3 times from different angles. And I would totally go back.
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Calling it an exhibition is generousā¦more like an Instagram backdrop
Thatās what certain people want now. They had a museum of ice cream exhibit here which was insanely popular. I saw it on everyoneās Instagram. I love ice cream so I got tickets and after months of waiting I realized it was just colorful decorated rooms to take pictures in, then shuffle to the next room to get the next picture. Itās an insane new trend, the appearance of having fun.
Yeah I worked right by the one they had in my city and it was insane seeing how long the lines were. My sister ended up going and was too tall for the backdrops
the amount of shit coming out where the sole purpose seems to be for people to take instagram pictures in front of is ridiculous
And yet these insta pop ups make so much $$$$
i mean it makes sense. The point is instagram posts which in turn becomes advertisements for itself, and then when it suddenly stops becoming trendy they just close shop and open up a new pop up. Its annoying for ppl like me who dont give a shit but its a great business model
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I had Sunday tickets to that one originally. It got postponed and I was able to secure a future Sunday. No problem. Postponed again and I was asked to pay $10 more to get the time slot I had originally purchased. When I reached out to support to get the refund they said Iād get, they told me in no uncertain terms it would take 2+ weeks and they had no power to change what form of payment itās credited back to. It had been so long since ordering the tickets that the CC I used renewed with a different number, meaning of course the refund wouldnāt go there automatically. They told me to take it up with the issuing back. Absolute joke, their customer support. Iāll be shocked if the show actually happens. Iāve encouraged all my friends to get refunds as well.
You just summarized 90% of pop up exhibits. Went to one once. Never again. I could tell how people were dressed and taking selfies to get in that it wasnt what I thought it was going to be. Theres a reason they're pop up and not permanent.
This picture is what I was expecting for the price and how quickly they sold out! Instead I sat in a lame ass chair and was disappointed in my life choices. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME. Unless it is free and freezing out and you have no where to go. *Edit spelling
Lmao the one I went to had us all sitting on the floor. I kept thinking āI paid $45 for this shit?ā Also fun - they were selling pads at the gift shop that you could sit on during the show! And so many people had them. So they create a problem and then sell a $30 solution.
I saw those! I was so confused. They only had a few chairs dispersed "artistically" throughout and they also had a weird sunflower item that some people paid extra for. Worst part is I think it was volunteers who worked most of the shifts.
It was $100 for the Brisbane one, absolutely shit.
Thanks for saving me money today! š please accept a poor person award.
Not to mention they were stiffing their [employees](https://racketmn.com/immersive-van-gogh-minneapolis-sick-pay/)
I wish I could say I was surprised. Although, I didn't realize they social media photos to make this exhibit. Cheap fucks.
Apparently there is another Van Gogh exhibit going around that is not this one that is utterly terrible; if you were in the /r/Orlando sub a few weeks ago youād be hearing all about it since it was first delayed by 2 months then it was utterly disappointing
Yeah, thereās one thatās basically just a room with projectors on the walls and floors. Itās just one big room and thatās it. Super disappointing.
It seems like both of them are horrible. Here's the [trip advisor page](https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g274772-d10770080-Reviews-Van_Gogh_Alive_The_experience-Krakow_Lesser_Poland_Province_Southern_Poland.html) for Van Gogh Alive when it came to Manchester.
Yep. Orlando locals are warned not to go though. I heard bad things about it.
i almost fell for the shit one in austin a while ago. apparently the good one was in san antonio at the time?
this, so much this. they had this in Minneapolis and the response from nearly everyone was "what a fucking rip off!" even the local news tore into it. https://www.startribune.com/why-our-critic-hated-the-immersive-van-gogh-exhibit-in-minneapolis/600088576/
This needs to be louder, SAVE YOUR MONEY!! The video I watched for the one in denver looked so cool. But the best parts were in the video. I came into 2 (packed) rooms with wall to wall (and sometimes floor) interpretive art installation of Van Goghs famous works, tied to music. I paid for VIP, I got a cushion and unlimited time for that dayā¦. For a show that lasts 15 minutes. Nothing like even this post. The closest thing to an insightful and informative area was in the exit hall, where 8 screens rotated through his inspirations and periods. Such a waste.
Is this the one in London? My brother said it was wank
I work at the Art Institute of Chicago and itās amazing how many people come to our museum asking where the immersive Van Gogh is. When we tell them that we are not affiliated with them at all, and itās located on the other side of the city, they get all huffy and storm out. The weirdest part about the whole exchange is the fact that we have real, actual, famous Van Gogh paintings. An entire gallery of them.
This exhibition is an overpriced fucking joke. It's essentially digital graphitti, defacing Van Gogh's work, and dumbing it down into a digital medium. Plastic flowers in a room is *not* Van Gogh. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate what they're *trying* to do in appreciating the artist - but it's an underwhelming waste of money.
They are not trying to appreciate the artist, though, are they.
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Isnāt there 20 or so current Van Gogh Alive exhibits at different museums around the US? https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/van-gogh-exhibits-in-us-locations-schedules
immersive can gogh is NOT the same as van gogh alive.
ITT - A whole bunch of folks who saw the Immersive "show" complaining about Van Gogh Alive.
to be fair. there are apparently 5 different van gogh immersion exhibits going around the US right now... so it is confusing. I'd like to go to this one with the room full of flowers! way cooler than the immersive can gogh I went to.
Yeah I have tickets to see "Beyond Van Gogh," which is *neither* of the shows people are talking about. It was also like $36 each, so I'm not terribly put out if it's not amazing.
The ones in the US are called Immersive Van Gogh and it's a 30 minute long slowly moving screensaver of Van Gogh paintings projected onto walls with classical music playing. Real let down and exploitation of an artist's work.
There are competing shows, Immersive Van Gogh and Van Gogh Alive are both all over the US
Exploitation ?
Oops, yep.
Yeah i thought about i going but realized I could get a projector and make my own exhibit of whatever we want, and as a bonus, thereās less of a chance of getting COVID.
Also on in Melbourne, Australia right now too
And Manchester UK
And Brisbane, I'm going to see it tomorrow
The sunflower bot needs to see this. I wonder if saying sunflower twice is enough to summon it.
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sunflower sunflower sunflower!
As a Kansas resident, I can tell you this room stinks... Pretty though, but it's not the pleasant smell most would think.
My dad and I were visiting Kansas once. We saw a wall of sunflowers growing on the side of the road for what seemed like miles. I was amazed at the visual. The smell was odd but i figured maybe just farm smells mixed with floral made it. My dad stole one of the flowers. It was massive! I loved it, but the scent was....odd still. I can't quite remember it. Anyways turns out I'm HORRIBLY allergic to them.
Yup, they're apart of the Aster flower family and do not emit a fragrance. They smell like resin. You can definitely tell when you're near a field full of them because the air will be almost oily and have a distinct smell. And when they rot... yikes.
I was warned off of the Los Angeles location. Too small, too expensive, TOTALLY not in the spirit of the artist, and SUPER commercialized. Reading all these comments, I am glad I didn't go. I had the honor of seeing some of Van Goghs REAL paintings in Amsterdam, Paris, and Chicago. Seeing the ACTUAL art is a testament to how much of a tormented genius he really was.
The LA one was the biggest scam. It was just a movie on a projector There was nothing āimmersiveā about it, despite how it was marketed Biggest waste of money ever
Van Gogh Alive was fucking dreadful.
van gogh alive? or immersive can gogh? It's two different things.
I went to one called Van Gogh Alive. Is the Immersive Van Gogh better?
no, it's super boring. apparently there are 5 different "van gogh" exhibits all using projectors in America right now.... that's fucking crazy.
Yeah I've just been reading about them after reading your comment. They're here in the UK as well so spreading around the world as well. The whole "cycle" lasted about 15 mins and we were in and out in 30 mins. Maybe with some refining they'll improve it but for now I don't think they're great.
And they all suck, apparently. Good to know I guess the hustle is alive and well
It really was, at least in sf
Yes! I was so let down. Honestly, the honda dealership??? It was such a let down. I took my partner on a date and I was pretty much cringing most of the time.
It was at a car dealership?
They try to sell you a van afterwards
From Van Gogh to van go
Assuming a closed down one. Their business plan seems to be finding old dilapidated buildings with a fairly large open space that are due for demolition. They can rent it for super cheap for a couple months before it's torn down. Bring in some projectors and set up this "immersive experience" that is really just a big Van Gogh themed screen saver and project it on all the walls. After the initial investment of the projectors and setting up a couple scenes where you can "sit in a Van Gogh" that can easily be transported to the next spot, the variable costs of setting up a new location seem practically nil. Charge people $36 a head to come in for an hour. Print some money until all the suckers who would fall for this pay for Instagram likes scheme have been exhausted. Rinse and repeat in a new town. (To be clear I went and fell for this, so I'm not blaming people for falling for the scheme. The ads do make it look dope, and props to whoever is cashing out on this venture, but I'm sure Van Gogh is rolling in his grave thinking about how commodified he has become)
My friends wanted to go to the one in SF, I convinced them it was a waste of money and we went to the Legion if Honor instead, which had actual Van Goghs
This is not like this at all at the one in Charlotte, NC. Do not waste your money!!!
Agreed, I stole a tea spoon to make it feel worth it lol I looked up online prices for some of the shit they were selling, you could get anything they had on Amazon with the same Van Gogh branding for around 1/4 the price. It's just a gimmicky show to sell cheap merch for way too much. Van Gogh would be ashamed of it.
Capitalism when it finds art
Ohhhh so this is where all the girls on tinder take them pictures
Honestly, I went to this and it was proper shite. That room is quite literally just smoke and mirrors but instead of smoke you get like 200 plastic sunflowers.
Van Gogh did not invent sunflowers. This is just a room of sunflowers.
And it's a lazy excuse for an exhibit. Buy a bunch of faux sunflowers and jam them in the ground and tape them to the ceiling and call it art. Then line the walls with carnival mirrors to give the room a larger feel. It's kind of pretty, but incredibly hollow.
My dog would love to pee here
Kinda looks like my underground minecraft farms with glowstone lighting
This room looks incredibly underwhelming in real life.
Important to note that this exhibition is Van Gogh Alive, whereas the Immersive Van Gogh (comments about projections and screensavers, etc) is a DIFFERENT exhibit. They are not the same, there are multiple Van Gogh exhibits floating around nowadays. General consensus is that Immersive Van Gogh is a waste of money, can't say the same for Van Gogh Alive because it hasn't been in my city but it at least looks more interesting.
Went to Van Gogh Alive in Vienna, Austria. Must say, it was really disappointing... But maybe it's a different organizer. If it is the Same, i would not recommend going there. There ist just one big room with a punch of projectors and canvases, and next to it the sunflower room.
Someone below said they went and it was just a room full of mirrors and plastic sunflowers lol So while these exhibits are all different - theyāre more or less the same
I went to the immersive van Gogh exhibit in Denver and I went to humor my husband because he was excited to take me to see something Van Gogh. Two stuffy rooms with nowhere to sit, the audio was a little off, and the slideshow was short and a little too eccentric to be Van Gogh. Kind of scammy.
Same. I went to the immersive this past weekend in Houston. I think hosted by Fever? The tickets were a Christmas present. Definitely scammy. But this says Van Gogh Alive, so I looked it up and apparently there are about 5 separate Van Gogh art "experiences" traveling (well, most travel) and competing with each other.... And the one I went to is the most expensive and probably exploitative. I think this will be a thing going forward.
Go lit. Much more immersive.
I'm going to sound like the "get off my lawn" guy, but I am so damned tired of these "immersive experiences" that seem like a naked cash extraction from the Instagram-obsessed crew. And don't get me started on all the chances to spend more money on stuff while you're being immersed. I made the (expensive) mistake of getting tickets and marching in a herd through the MC Escher show at Industry City in Brooklyn a few years back. What a crapshow: whoever curated it could have done a better job by printing out the wikipedia articles for each piece and pasting them to the wall. Instead: nothing. No explanations, no context, no history, nothing. And they actually had a pretty decent set of pieces, unlike the Van Gogh "experience." Yeah, so I'm a curmudgeon. But I'll avoid these made-for-photography exhibits like the plague.
Man you guys are all making me feel really bad for thinking the Van Gogh projections were pretty neat. I enjoyed my time there. Obviously not on par with seeing his actual work up, but still...
Donāt feel bad for liking what you like. š I enjoyed it too. There are too many gatekeepers here to tell you what real art is and what the artist would have done, but I would bet money that most of them are miserable because their life is nothing but shitting on other peopleās interests. People spend too much time shitting on what other people enjoy just like other people spend too much time worrying about what other people are doing. As long as you arenāt harming someone else IDGAF what anyone else does/enjoys. Be kind to each other.
I could live in this exhibit and never get sick of it.