Immersive Van Gogh Show Breaks Attendance Records at Musée d’Orsay

This article was first published by ArtNet.

The Musée d’Orsay reported that its latest Van Gogh exhibition broke all previous attendance records, bringing in a total 793,556 visitors, or an average of 7,181 each day. The show’s A.I. and immersive V.R. experiences were largely ridiculed in the press, but they proved persuasive to new audiences.

“Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise,” which closed last Sunday, brought together canvases from the final two months of the Post-Impressionist artit’s life. In this short but prolific period in mid 1890, Van Gogh lived in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town just outside Paris, and made 74 paintings.

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