How My Kids Helped Me Stop Hating the Van Gogh Experience

Photo: A panoramic view of the sights in Beyond Van Gogh, Austin, TX (2021). Photo credit: Ayelet Haimson Lushkov. Article by Ayelet Haimson Lushkov. Hyperallergic – July 21, 2021.

Beyond Van Gogh is enchanting enough to capture the attention of kids for whom immobile art is very last century.

I don’t like Vincent van Gogh. Not for me are fields of sunflowers, smudgy portraiture, and Parisian cafes. And yet, on a scorching Texas day, I found myself shuffling through Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience, and — horrors! — liking it. The culprits behind this caper?? are entirely my children, who are four and two and therefore require entertainment every weekend — ideally activities that can engage their senses, cause minimal destruction, and be air-conditioned. […]

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