At the beginning of 2017 the exhibition “Icons of Modern Art. Shchukin collection” took place in Paris. The foundation Louis Vuitton opened for visitors some works of Matisse, Picasso, Gauguin, Cézanne, Monet and many others. Director Pierre Zandrowicz made 360 video for this exhibition to immerse viewers into legendary artworks. Video contains archival footage, CG, paintings and video from the exhibition.
Photo — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk-iQQvTf8s&t=5s
Acute Art is the world’s first virtual gallery, specialized in producing and distributing contemporary VR art. For the first exposition the gallery invited art stars: Marina Abramovic, Jeff Koons and Olafur Eliasson have created three VR experiences. Marinas’ first virtual performance is about environment: standing in the transparent cube a viewer can destroy Antarctic ice with his scream and get drowned.
Jeff Koons brought to life his scandalous ballerina.
Olafur Eliasson explores light in virtual reality interacting with rainbow.
Photo — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVHiWqIw3J4
American artist George Peaslee recreated «Starry night» by Vincent Van Gogh and «A Sunday on La Grande Jatte» by George Sera using Tilt Brush. Scenes are made like dioramas — with flat objects in space.
Photo — https://sketchfab.com/georgepeaslee
One more application with which you can walk through museums, not leaving your home. Digital space is changed according to a chosen artist. The main advantage — is an opportunity to take and move art-objects and learn more information with a virtual infopad.
Photo — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7TXVJZ7Prs
ARLOOPA studio has developed a Saryan VR app. This app is interesting because of its augmented reality mode. When camera is directed at the painting, the application launches its 360 version.
Photo — Saryan VR app
The first of March «Surrealist Art sale» took place in London. For this event Sotheby’s developed VR Experience in where collectors could travel through works of Dali, Magritte, Delvaux and Masson.
Photo — telegraph.co.uk, sothebys.com, video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyTG1zGB2Xc
Swedish engineers have made their own immersive versions of famous paintings. The first experiences are masterpieces of Da Vinci and Ian Vermeer. The authors make no secret of their know how: characters and environment are made in 3D and then covered with artistic textures.In VR you see a 180 version of the painting. In future the authors are going to “immersize” other prominent artists — they offer users to decide which exactly on their Facebook page.
Photo — Art Plunge application, video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpgj9b8-JMA
In project «Virtual borders» Brooklyn artist Mr. Toll combines nature, art and technology. Giant installations of a human trap, a fried egg and a melting world were installed in Arizona desert, captured in 360 and uploaded to mobile stores as a VR app. The authors say that VR in this art-project provides spectators with a fresh look on ordinary objects in the context of a human nature.
Фото — приложение Virtual Borders, видео https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hihrAwvkJtU&feature=youtu.be
Exhibition halls of one of the greatest Moscow museums are now available for visit with virtual reality headsets on interactive site.
Photo — http://www.theartnewspaper.ru/posts/3379/, http://virtual.arts-museum.ru/
It’s interesting to look how two individual artists have come to a similar idea and how different their results are. Goro Fujita and Sutu Eats Flies are exploring the idea of endless canvas in virtual reality.
Goro Fujita, «Worlds in Worlds», Oculus Quill 
Sutu Eats Flies, «A world inside a world inside a world…..», Tilt Brush
Photo and video — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeFuXfWsI3s, https://vimeo.com/194697431
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