Has anyone else been to one of these new immersive art exhibits?

No. I only get my art from a Subway sandwich artist. Most art bores me. I do like a good science museum.

I saw one of the Van Gogh productions (there were two). It was interesting but I wouldn’t go again. The music was nice, the crowd size reasonable. We noticed the images were often flipped which is kind of an odd way to present masterworks. For a quarter the price I can go to a real museum and stay as long as I please.

Had extensive available window to go see Van Gogh but the more I think about the format the more I lost interest.

Everyone who I’ve known who has gone loved them. But I’m a big grouch and refuse to go on principle. It kind of feels like bastardizing works of art. :P

@raum It was fun but I’m not tempted to go to another. It seems cheap and exploitative. And these artists aren’t around to give consent – or get paid.

I went to the Van Gogh and the Monet immersive exhibits. The pleasure was that for both I went with the same dear friend. I’m sure if the Klimt one comes here, she’ll want to go. I now have a boyfriend and will likely want to go with him. Perhaps I’ll go twice.

I enjoyed myself. It was fun. I liked the written exhibits that you can read before entering the projection room. But the highlight is going with my friend.

@janbb I think that’s the part that bothers me the most, that the artists aren’t around to give consent.

Though I’d expect that their foundation would have had to approve these events?

@raum Wonder. I’ll try to research it.

I went to the Van Gogh last year, and my son took me to a Banksy show last January. The Van Gogh was interesting, but I did not feel “immersed”, probably because I had seen every piece already in museums.

The Banksy show was interesting but not “immersive”, and it was short; took us less than an hour to get through all of it.

There was advertising earlier this year for a Picasso show, but I dismissed it as impossible to condense his work to something that could be seen in 90 minutes. I am much more interested in the Edward Hopper show at the Whitney right now.

^^Yes! Will be in the city tomorrow and wish I can swing by to see the Hopper exhibit.

I went to the Van Gogh with my wife and another couple. It was clever use of multimedia. I’d go see something similar in the future.

I went to one in a theatre where I live. They gave us 3D glasses and we just sat and watched the movie. The paintings feel like they are coming at you and engulfing you. It’s a very slow movement, it’s not like 3D movies that are trying to shock you or make you duck. Sometimes it felt like you were moving into the painting too.

The film I saw featured Impressionists. I knew about half of the paintings, and half I wasn’t familiar with. A few artists I didn’t know either, and I really enjoyed being able to see the detail in a different way.

Being able to just sit there with the 3D effect was slightly mesmerizing or hypnotic.

Other immersive experiences you walk through and the paintings are projected on the walls. Usually, they have places you can sit also, similar to a museum. I haven’t been to that type.