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Ed Kienholz "The Hoerengracht" At The National Gallery

The National Gallery in London have brought famed American artist Ed Kienholz’s ‘The Hoerengracht’ to London for the first time.  The life-size, walk-through recreation of Amsterdam’s red-light district with brick walls, glowing windows and mysterious doorways of Amsterdam’s claustrophobic streets and half-dressed, garishly lit mannequins of ‘The Hoerengracht’ reveal a theatre of grim sociology, filled
Posted November 11, 2009