FAST AND CURIOUS VAN GOGH ALIVE

was thinking of this last November when I visited the multisensory light and sound spectacular Van Gogh Alive, at Sydney’s Royal Hall of Industries, Moore Park, where, across the forty-five minute length of the show, 3000 projections of Van Gogh’s paintings accompanied by several of his letters and contemporary photographs of related locations were projected at vast sizes on the interior walls, pillars and floors, of the cavernous hall, accompanied by a booming surround sound classical playlist. It covered the same terrain as Wiggins’ talk and yet couldn’t have been further from it. While Wiggins’ talk was amusingly discursive and packed with information, Van Gogh Alive was a kaleidoscopic romp across 3000 paintings where the median time looking at each image, was in the