![]() “This is like walking into a 17th century Dutch painting of Amsterdam,” Wiggins said. Your session will expire in 5 minutes, 0 seconds, due to inactivity. Wiggins also argued that the sordid subject matter, portrayed in all its “squalor”, was not as out of place at the National as visitors may initially think. View photo galleries for Crowne Plaza Los Angeles-Commerce Casino in Commerce. ![]() He also underlined the links between the piece and famous Dutch paintings from the 17th century that belong to the gallery’s permanent collection. When plans to house Ed and Nancy Kienholz’s “The Hoerengracht” were announced last year, critics asked whether the normally reserved National was “prostituting itself” to contemporary art designed, at least in part, to shock.īut at a press preview on Tuesday, curator Colin Wiggins defended the decision to feature the installation which recreates a street and buildings caked in grime where life-like models of scantily clad women display themselves in windows. The National Gallery in London, one of the world's great public collections, has put on display a seedy reconstruction of Amsterdam's Red Light District in a rare foray into contemporary installation art. ![]() The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, central London February 24 2009.
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