Art
My Review of Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience
Read this before you Gogh-Gogh.
If your idea of a good time is paying $40 to sit on a concrete floor with 50 other people (and their roaming toddlers) in a warehouse in downtown Cleveland for 30 minutes while watching a glorified slide show set to a deafening classical soundtrack, boy, have you come to the right place.
Full disclosure: my boyfriend’s company paid for our tickets. Thank God. So we were living the high life — we even got a tiny square of foam padding to sit on since there was almost no seating provided and this isn’t an age where you want to sit shoulder to shoulder with a stranger.
My boyfriend is over six feet tall, so that foam basically met its maker when he sat on it. But it was enough for me to almost not feel my tailbone drilling through the concrete as Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings made my tonsils vibrate.
Fun facts:
Barber’s Adagio for Strings features prominently in the movie Platoon, which stars Willem Dafoe (the music plays as Dafoe’s character tragically dies). Dafoe also played Vincent Van Gogh in 2018’s At Eternity’s Gate, which snagged him an Oscar nomination, and he holds an honorary doctorate from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Finally, my boyfriend met Willem Dafoe…
