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Humboldt Forum opens: A new landmark for Berlin
A visitor walks through a light installation at the exibition After Nature at the rebuilt Berlin Palace (Berliner Schloss) which houses the Humboldt Forum during the pre-opening presentation to the press, in Berlin, on July 19, 2021. The museum named after Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt officially opens its doors to the public on July 20, 2021. Ronny Hartmann / AFP.
BERLIN
.-The Humboldt Forum, the largest cultural development in Europe and the most ambitious in Germany this century, will open its doors to the public for the first time tomorrow, Tuesday 20 July 2021, with free admission for the first 100 days to the inaugural exhibitions.
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A life-size recreation of Bedroom in Arles, part of Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience at Skylight on Vesey Street in New York, June 5, 2021. Two immersive van Gogh exhibitions make a critic reflect on her encounters with his paintings and question what it means to have an intimate connection with an artist. Sam Youkilis/The New York Times.
by Maya Phillips
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.- In 2017, I took a trip to Paris, where I greedily took in as much art as I could. In one of the cavernous chambers of the ornate Musée dOrsay was the Vincent van Gogh exhibition, his framed works (Starry Night Over the Rhône, Bedroom in Arles, The Church at Auvers, a number of his self-portraits) set against a brazen sapphire background rather than the usual chaste white museum walls. Ive had a poster of Starry Night, gifted to me by a college friend, since my undergraduate dorm days. It hangs framed in my bedroom today. At Musée dOr