Beyond Van Gogh: the Immersive Experience

What an exciting, educational, and stimulating event! Great for family fun, solo date, or date night! The reception was a nice welcome to their opening night VIP Yelp Elite event. I was impressed with the door service and professional presence throughout the exhibit. The hors d'oeuvres were very delicious and the servers were very polite and friendly. I really was impressed to see the reception with food and drinks at the beginning and the end of the experience! Wow! The size of the event and the walk they were very well thought out and orchestrated. I really enjoyed this experience and plan to go back again with friends and family.

I remember my college days sitting in art history learning about this amazing artist. Since the first time I laid eyes on his work I loved it. My favorite piece of his being the starry night. This guy had so many interesting amazing pieces. It's almost heartbreaking he never got the recognition he deserved while he was still alive.As I walked through the beginning there were different quotes from his letters and information about him. I couldn't help but feel overwhelmed with joy and sadness. You can tell he never knew the magnitude he brought to the world with his art. This experience was much more immersive that I'd anticipated. Seeing his art come alive in the room was amazing and overwhelmingly beautiful. When Starry Night made its appearance I was left in aw. My jaw dropped and my heart jumped for joy. I am eternally grateful to have been apart of this experience. Thank you Yelp and the Beyond Van Gogh coordinator for giving me one of the best experiences. I highly recommend this show for all art enthusiasts! The designers who pieced this show together did a fantastic job!

Such a beautifully immersive experience! Seeing Van Gogh's work this way was amazing. When I first walked in, the space was filled with about 30-foot images of many of his self-portraits. Thankfully, this was one of the less "active" few minutes of the show so you could really take them all in while getting your barring. But there is movement throughout giving you a peaceful way to view a retrospect of Van Gogh's works.Thank you, Destiny, and those behind organizing this immersive Van Gogh experience. I feel fortunate to have gotten the opportunity.

I cried. I think the review can remain there, but I'll expand:I've been to the actual Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It was the #1 museum I have ever been to, and I've been around the globe. I wanted to know if this would stack-up. It didn't. Why? It's a whole other experience. From artistically leading you through the history of Vincent and his turbulent life through his own writing, to sitting you down for about 30-45mins of pure immersion of his art... It was beautiful. I cried. This is not something you take babies to, or young children. I mean, you can but they would get loud and board. This is an adult experience that I'm so happy I went at 8:30pm to see. The music the voice-overs, the quotes, and the actual art moving along the walls feels like you are there with Vincent. Feeling the stroke of his brush, his sorrow, how art healed him, and the story of the underdog with GENIUS! I cried. You exit through the gift-shop where they have many of the same articles you can get in Amsterdam. I got magnets. I cried. 10/10 recommend this living experience. BONUS: they have the history in Spanish for those who want to join. The inclusion in that is top notch.

I love the impressionist period and I have always loved art and took extra art history classes in collage for fun. It was an enjoyable experience, I loved refreshing my memory with the history part at the beginning. And the immersive experience was good, colors were crisp and clear unlike some other reviews I saw. I think it was a fun way to enjoy art and is a unique experience. I went with friends and that made it more enjoyable too. We all went to Sawmill Market for lunch after. I'm sure this event has been helping them so for that I'm glad. However... it was underwhelming... as an elite Yelper and seeing a lot of reviews from elites that went to the Yelp event. I'm disappointed that they allowed those reviews on this page.. usually their is a separate review page so maybe something happened or their was a mistake... not sure why they are on this page... For someone who paid $50 for their ticket.. It seemed very over priced. I don't know the cost or Logistics that goes into planning preparing and putting on this type of event but one room seemed lacking for what I paid.. just saying.. I'm going with another friend at the end of the month with a VIP ticket and will see how that goes... and if it's worth the extra fee..

Defimite Highly Recommend *****(5 stars)The Van Gogh Immersive Experience is the "take in the big picture and then look at the details" exhibit. It Is an absolute must if it arrives wherever you live.This was a VIP Invitation only event, (Pre-Opening) therefore, we enjoyed hors d'oeuvres, champagne and wine. The Heritage team members were excellent and quite welcoming. I loved every nano second of being here at night.Located off of I-40 and minutes from I-25, The Van Gogh Immersive Experience is housed in the Sawmill/near Old Town area. Ample parking on the property, near Hotel Chaco, Sawmill parking lot and on street The building's layout offers guests enough room to simply enjoy the many digital artwork(s) on display. Please sit and be still while taking in the highlight of the show: the paintings. There is no rush, so you can enjoy the exhibits at your own pace. It truly is a meditative, calming experience. Magical. Enjoy!

Great evening attending the beyond van Gogh immersive experience event!The entire event was professionally managed, choreographed, and set up. We were greeted at the door by host I got us checked in and explained how the event worked. My wife and I both enjoyed a glass of wine and hors d'oeuvres. You were let along a single file line as you went from an introduction to the van Gogh experience displaying his biography and background and eventually leading to a large room where the virtual, immersive experience occurred.The immersive experience was based on a projected images of van Goghs works along with the history of his works and his growing up leading to his artistic creative images and portraits. They displayed them by projecting the images onto the walls and the floor of the event center which made you feel like you were in the image itself. Some of the images of portraits and self-portraits would blink the eyes of the subjects which was a nice touch!These weren't still images but rather a random display of all his images with background music that was very appropriate and soothing as you viewed his works.All in all it was a wonderful night and the VIP reception was perfect! I highly recommend it to anyone attending. Plan on spending about an hour, no more than two hours viewing his works. Keep in mind these are not pieces of his artwork but rather just images displayed up on the walls and on the floor of the venue.

I really enjoyed attending this beautiful and interesting exhibit on Van Gogh. I'm grateful to have been invited as a Yelp Elite to this event which included wonderful appetizers, cocktails, and Van Gogh swag at the end. Really made my plus-1 and I feel like VIPs so thank you for that. The Yelp add-ons aside, I went to an immersion event in NYC last year so I basically knew what to expect. That one was a show on fractals and it felt like you were inside a kaleidoscope. Beautiful. Like the Van Gogh show, it was also educational... which I really liked. With Van Gogh, most people know some things about him; especially about his ear and suffering from mental illness. One really interesting thing I learned is that Vincent painted Starry Night from his window while he was institutionalized. A lot was presented about his close relationship with his brother who was a great supporter of Vincent and his art and who is credited with sharing/preserving so much history of the artist through their letters.For this educational info alone, I recommend going to this showing. Then, of course, there was the viewing of the art. There was something magical about hearing the music of Don McLean's ''Starry, Starry Night'' while being surrounded by larger- than-life images of the art that inspired the song. When you go to a museum and are lucky enough to see one or two original Van Gogh paintings, it is really special. At this event, though you weren't looking at originals, you got to see collections of his art, like his many self-portraits, side-by- side. I guess I never realized there were so many self-portraits. I also learned that Vincent couldn't afford to pay for models, so he painted himself and people he knew in life. I didn't time the loop of the images projected on walls and floor, but I'd guess it lasted about 45 minutes. After a while, we were keeping alert for people vacating the few benches that were there so we could sit down. Note: there was a lot of movement in the images, especially upon entering the immersion space, so it's easy to get a little dizzy.My only disappointment with this event was when I found out the price of the tickets. Perhaps there are costs in presenting the work of a master artist over fractals, but the price was nearly double. I just wish it was a little more affordable to allow more people the opportunity to enjoy the experience.

Vincent Van Gogh. One of the planet's premier artists. His style is very distinctive. Once you've seen a few of his paintings, others jump right out at you. Doesn't matter the subject. You know it's a "Van Gogh". This immersive experience was one not to miss. If you miss it in ABQ, it is a traveling exhibit. Check out their website and head to their next destination. Standing in the Exhibit Hall with photographs changing into paintings, the movement of his brush strokes and the feeling of his world all were very powerful. Visitors were in awe. I was in awe . . . as paintings moved across the walls, pillars and floor. Far better than one painting at a time. It was fascinating to see the connections and movement in his work.Thank you Yelp for providing this wonderful opportunity. Thank you Destiny, ABQ Yelp Community Manager.

This was a great experience this evening. The experience viewing the amazing art with music was a great experience. The way you flow through really gives you the full experience.