Nearly 130 years after his death, Van Gogh still lives. I struggle to find words to describe my experience at the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit that opened last month in San Francisco.
Overwhelmed with emotion and safely distanced from others, I sat within his brushstrokes as I watched his story unfold. The exhibit’s service provided layered aesthetics of music, motion picture and traditional art that relayed to me the necessity of art that equates to any other “essential service.”
In lockdown’s first few weeks, I questioned the pandemic’s effects on the gig economy, particularly visual and performing arts. Businesses seemingly closed as fast as cases and social-distancing increased.