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\n\tThe similarities between Rome and Paramus, New Jersey, are legion, and soon there will be one more point of commonality: Michelangelo\u2019s hallowed paintings in the Sistine Chapel. The setting will be the Westfield Garden State Plaza shopping mall, and the occasion will be \u201cMichelangelo\u2019s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition,\u201d an \u201cimmersive experience\u201d opening April 10.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cRated 4.8 stars globally, the exhibition faithfully recreates all 34 of Michelangelo\u2019s ceiling and altar masterpieces using licensed high-resolution imagery and an advanced printing technique,\u201d reads a press release (which deserves some credit for not bumping that rating up to 5). \u201cFrom The Creation of Adam<\/em> to The Last Judgment<\/em>, every fresco is rendered in vivid detail, allowing visitors to explore the emotion, depth, and artistry of the Vatican\u2019s most celebrated space\u2014without crowds, time limits, or a trip to Rome.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tA \u201cverified guest review\u201d of the traveling exhibition from Fedel S. counts as a rave: \u201cI doubt that I may ever have the opportunity to visit the real Sistine Chapel, so this exhibit gave me an informative and beautiful representation of what I might see.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSEE Global Entertainment, the company behind the Sistine Chapel show, has organized touring exhibitions related to Star Trek<\/em>, King Tut, the Titanic, The X-Files<\/em>, Michael Jackson, Bansky, and Frida Kahlo, as well as McQueen PROVOCATEUR\u2122 EXPERIENCE, Museum of Failure, and Disgusting Food Museum.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Westfield Garden State Plaza mall is home to Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, and Macy\u2019s, as well as more than 200 fashion stores, 40-plus restaurants, and a \u201cmultisensory experience\u201d called Dopamine Land.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/sistine-chapel-exhibition-mall-new-jersey-1234779614\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sistine-chapel-exhibit-01.jpeg?w=1024″] The similarities between Rome and Paramus, New Jersey, are legion, and soon there will be one more point of commonality: Michelangelo\u2019s hallowed paintings in the Sistine Chapel. The setting will be the Westfield Garden State Plaza shopping mall, and the occasion will be \u201cMichelangelo\u2019s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition,\u201d an \u201cimmersive experience\u201d opening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1861051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1861051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1861051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1861051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1861051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}