Not Every Artist Needs An “Immersive Experience”

Xiao Faria da Cunha
5 min readMar 31, 2022

We live, supposedly, in the age of “experiences”; the term evokes the tired trope that millennials — the most indebted generation in history — value travel and ephemeral encounters over material goods. (The Rise of “Immersive” Art)

Influencer posing in the Immersive Van Gogh exhibition in Chicago. (Courtesy: @andrea_rustad on Instagram)

From Immersive Van Gogh to Immersive Monet, followed by Frida Kalo and Michaelangelo. Then, suddenly, the immersive experience becomes the new…

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Xiao Faria da Cunha

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