Tag: Museums

Stretching the City & Into the Bay – new life for old Pigeon Hotel & former Poolbeg Power Station?

In the always excellent Dublin Inquirer newspaper this week I was delighted to read a report on how Dublin City Council (DCC) is (at last) trying to find a new use for both the beautiful old 1700s Pigeon House Hotel near Ringsend, and for the huge derelict Poolbeg power station next door. Both buildings stand… Read More Stretching the City & Into the Bay – new life for old Pigeon Hotel & former Poolbeg Power Station?

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African spectacle, the dioramas of New York’s American Museum of Natural Hist.

Tableau & Diorama iv (and the last in the current series on that theme) I love many types of art, architecture, many types of spaces and places.  But for sheer drama and spectacle, for an extraordinary mix of art (the much underrated art of tableau-making) and of science,  this may be the most powerful room… Read More African spectacle, the dioramas of New York’s American Museum of Natural Hist.

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Panoramas; Dioramas and Tableau. Munich to Moscow, Dublin to the USA.

Had to show you this.  It’s what is known as a diorama of course,  showing the vast sweep of the Grand Canyon. I spotted it recently in the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany,  (where they really go in for large, highly detailed model-making in a big way. You’ll see that the clever artists who made… Read More Panoramas; Dioramas and Tableau. Munich to Moscow, Dublin to the USA.

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