![]() ![]() Once you enter the zone into which Jared vanished, Meow becomes its a-maze-ing best. Many of the openings from the house are also far easier to navigate than Eternal Return, even if crawling into the tunnel in the dryer (repeated in Santa Fe) is advisable only if you're relatively small or particularly flexible. Elevators for those with difficulty navigating stairs are a welcome development, although the shiny metal doors tend to interrupt the magic. Where the original exhibition came across as a little slapdash at times - you were 40% certain to bonk your head on an extra-low ceiling or scratch yourself on a pokey metal banister - The Real Unreal has refined its concept to be a little more user-friendly. Explorers can exit the house into another dimension via outlets hidden inside the fireplace, the garden shed and the home's washer/dryer units. A video of one of Gordon's performances playing on a television offers a hint that things are going to get weird, as do the missing-child posters on display.Ī roomful of refrigerator doors opens to various portals, leading to everything from a life-size RV to a surrealistic store by Texas artist Yana Payusova. Computers and iPads let visitors snoop inside the home to see Carmen's photo streams or read the family's texts. Kate Russell/Meow Wolf Even before visitors cross the garden to enter the house, there are clues to decipher, including a series of letters in the mailbox you can open and read. This time, the heroes of the story are a Black North Texas family: bisexual gardener and spice purveyor Carmen Delaney her ailing jazz musician father, Gordon her BFF from childhood LaVerne Fuqua and LaVerne's 10-year-old son Jared, whose mysterious disappearance into The Real Unreal sets the whole storyline in motion. ![]() ![]() Both tell the story of a disappearing family, and both offer breadcrumb clues to the plot hidden in nooks and crannies. Both have an entryway into an alternate reality via a family home (an oversized Victorian in a former bowling alley in Santa Fe, a two-story brick abode with a garden in a former Bed, Bath & Beyond in Grapevine). If you've experienced Eternal Return, there is much about The Real Unreal that will strike you as familiar. Each story in Meow Wolf's "Multiverse" adds to the ever-evolving fairy tale growing and expanding as new outlets pop up nationwide. Like these outposts, the new The Real Unreal in Grapevine (which opened last weekend to a select preview audience) draws from the same mythology that provides a foundation for the entire organization. Harnessing the best of the "experience economy," the organization has grown rapidly since opening its first "portal" in its hometown with House of Eternal Return, in 2016, followed by Omega Mart in Las Vegas and Convergence Station in Denver, both in 2021. Lucky for us, Meow Wolf finally came howling this way with a new art space in Grapevine. The renowned entertainment company based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, launched a thousand imitations that have never quite lived up to their inspiration. Meow Wolf has evolved from its scrappy origins as a series of arts collective pop-ups to become an artistic juggernaut and a millennial answer to Disney. ![]()
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