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Park West Founder Interviewed on New Immersive Vincent Van Gogh Exhibition

Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most iconic artists in history and now, thanks to a new traveling exhibition, art lovers will have the opportunity to "step inside" some of his most famous paintings. On Thursday, February 11, the popular iHeartRadio program “Michigan’s Big Show” discussed "Immersive Van Gogh," an impressive live experience that uses animated digital projections make it feel like you're actually walking through a Vincent Van Gogh landscape. The exhibition opened to critical and pop...

Art News: Chicago’s Picasso Turns 50, Virtual Van Gogh Exhibition, Met Open Access Success

The art world is full of fascinating exhibitions, intriguing discoveries, and moments that shape history. Here are some of the latest news items making art headlines. Picasso’s Chicago Sculpture Celebrates 50th Anniversary August marks the 50th anniversary of the unveiling of a 50-foot-tall sculpture designed by Pablo Picasso in Chicago’s Daley Plaza. Architectural Digest notes that the 160-ton sculpture cost more than $350,000 to build, but Picasso refused to be paid for it, instead donating th...

Art News: Van Gogh Paintings Returned, Google Improves Art Searches, ‘Fearless Girl’ Protested With Pug Sculpture

The art world is full of fascinating exhibitions, intriguing discoveries, and moments that shape history. Here are some of the latest news items making art headlines.   Van Gogh Paintings Return 14 Years After Theft Two works by Vincent van Gogh have returned to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam more than a decade after they were stolen. Artsy recounts the story of how the two paintings, “View of the Sea at Scheveningen” and “Congregation,” were stolen in December 2002 by thieves who broke into t...

Artists bring Van Gogh paintings to life in “Loving Vincent”

Vincent van Gogh left behind more than 2,000 paintings in his short and intriguing life, and what better way to honor that life than with a groundbreaking animated film using paintings? Van Gogh, born March 30, 1853, lived to be 37 before dying controversially in 1890. To tell the story of this tragic artist, filmmakers are using 62,000 paintings by 85 artists, all done in the style of Van Gogh, to create “Loving Vincent,” a feature-length film about the artist. Each frame of the film is an oil...