Word: diorama
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...cold austerity of modernism is no stranger to the design shops of New York City, but some boutiques have been blazing a new trend: diorama décor. Where hard lines and minimalism once ruled, there is now an artful clutter of quirkier furnishings, including natural objects suitable for a Victorian curio cabinet...
...Lukas Anton, 13, is the first in his family to take up the tradition. He doesn't know much about the Christmas story in his diorama, but it doesn't faze him. "I enjoy this," he says. "I don't see a reason to ever quit." For more information, contact the Trest tourist information center, tel: (420) 567 234 567; www.trest.cz
...Trest are happily chiseling away in a youth-center workshop, as they have done since 1990, a year after the fall of communism. Lukas Anton, 13, is the first in his family to take up the tradition. He doesn't know much about the Christmas story in his diorama, but it doesn't faze him. "I enjoy this," he says. "I don't see a reason to ever quit." For more information, contact the Trest tourist information center, tel: (420) 567 234 567; www.trest.cz
...failed" at the simple life in the bus. But she turned the front den into a classroom to home school Noah and the other kids. When they studied horses, they read Black Beauty and went riding real ones. When they were learning about Indians, she crafted a cardboard diorama including pretend deerskin stretched across twigs. To show off musical instruments, they paraded as a marching band in front of the video camera so Daddy could see them. She insisted on buying extra workbooks to expand their home-schooling curriculum. "You make it difficult on yourself," Rusty says he told...
...Anything but superficial, Sugimoto relentlessly probes such issues as the difference between what we consider real and fake. In his Diorama series, for example, he turns his attention to those hokey installations at natural-history museums with painted backgrounds and stuffed-animal wildlife scenes or mannequins of Neanderthals hunting. As in Portraits, the dioramas look far more realistic in Sugimoto's presentation than in the museums themselves. Among these delightfully jarring, anachronistic images is a pseudodocumentary photo of Cro-Magnons building a hut. Sugimoto is well aware of the irony that he, like the creators of such dioramas, is practicing...