Immersive art experiences and responses

Have you ever danced with a colour? Can you reimagine images? What music does an artist inspire? Explore responses to art and exhibitions through music, dance, and close viewing.

Immersive stories: Rita Angus paintings on Google Arts and Culture

Immerse yourself in ten stories about Rita Angus and some of her paintings from our collection on Google Arts and Culture. Learn about her life and thoughts while she was painting in locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.

A paintbrush in a glass of water and swirling blue paint

A Painter’s Journey: Rita Angus’s Central Otago

This film celebrates Rita Angus’s artistic practice – diving into her painting Central Otago (1953–56/1969).

Three people on stage playing instruments

Watch: Rita by Quentin Angus

Quentin Angus is a composer based in New York, and the great-nephew of celebrated painter Rita Angus. Watch and listen to a performance of Quentin’s composition, Rita, inspired by the artist’s life, values, and her outstanding and diverse body of work.

Photographic collage featuring a roofless room of beds, women sitting on them holding fish aloft, a cat in the middle on red carpet yawning. The sky above is blue with pinky clouds

Paris Collage Collective Surrealist Dreams showcase

Enter other realms through a selection of highlights from the Paris Collage Collective Surrealist Dreams collage challenge.

Space, body, and movement: An interview with BodyCartography Project’s Olive Bieringa

“There’s a long tradition of dance in the museum, but I think in terms of dance history and in this larger critical discourse around art history, dance has not been a part of that conversation.”

‘I’ve never seen the gallery like this before’: Experiencing Toi Art through dance

Transfixed by BodyCartography Project’s ‘Walk with me’ tour of Toi Art, Head of Exhibition Renewal Frith Williams wrote down her thoughts in the middle of the night, “so I could remember it later.” Here’s what she wrote.