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“It’s something completely different,” said co-producer Corey Ross. “It’s film-meets-exhibition-meets-experiential in the sense that is a trend now in the arts from ‘Sleep No More’ to the Museum of Ice Cream to the ‘Friends’ exhibit in Chicago.”
The exhibition was originally supposed to run through May 2, but ticket sales since November have been so strong that a second block of tickets has been released, extending visits through Sept. 6.
“Immersive Van Gogh” incorporates 400 licensed van Gogh works from around the world, but it is not simply a parade of images. “What’s important about the show is the way [artistic creator] Massimiliano [Siccardi] deconstructs and reconstructs and animates the pieces,” Ross said. “So, if you’re coming expecting to see one piece in isolation like you might at a museum, that’s not what this experience is.”
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Got a Box? Make a Museum
Right now, tactile learning in school is difficult, but exploring a passion at home can fill the void.
Ingrid Abbott, 11, could not find a butterfly museum near her Utah home, so she created her own out of a cardboard box.Credit.Ben Abbott
By Richard Morgan
Jan. 9, 2021
The main thing to know about Ingrid Abbott, 11, a fifth grader in the modest mountain town of Orem, Utah, is that she is really into butterflies.
She dressed as a monarch butterfly for Halloween last year. She checks books out of her local library about butterflies. And she watches National Geographic documentaries about them. She wishes there were a butterfly museum in her town, but Orem doesn’t have one. So Ingrid corrected the situation: She built her own Museum of Butterflies out of a cardboard box.
As you walk through the door of Distortions Monster World at the Denver Pavilions, you re greeted by an oversized zombie head. You can walk inside it, have a photo taken, and then move on through the brightly lit, 19,000-square-foot interactive installation showcasing the various ghoulish creations of Distortions Unlimited, a Greeley company that has been making handcrafted Halloween props, monsters and animatronics since 1978.
There are Roswell aliens to dissect and be dissected by, a massive Tyrannosaurus rex, a castle area with a giant Frankenstein, a King Kong-style gorilla hand that can hold you, a guillotine used in Alice Cooper s stage show along with other rock paraphernalia, a Dick Van Dyke gargoyle (the 95-year-old actor uses Distortions to supply decor for his Halloween parties), and more ghoulish goodies leading to a top-secret grand finale.
Gitanjali Rao, first TIME Magazine Kid of The Year , at an innovation session with students she mentors
When she was just four, Gitanjali Rao got a chemistry kit from her uncle. It was just the kind of gift she would love. Beakers, test tubes, colourful liquids, and a gateway to what would become her world.
“I think it changed my life forever,” she told TOI from Denver, Colorado. In the 11 years since then, she has come up with a device to detect lead in water, another to help diagnose opioid addiction and an algorithm to identify cyberbullying. “I don’t think there was one aha moment where everything came together. It was a combination of going to the science museum, constantly learning new things,” she said. “And that chemistry kit.”
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