Reply To: Anyone see the Patrick Scott Programme?

Brian, i don’t know so much about the building, but one important thing is that Sean Scully, the Irish born minimal expressionist has donated eight paintings to Dublin, which is great, but it presented a challenge in that they need a big room to display them, bigger than could be provided by the IMMA, stack a was suggest for a while, but now, the new Hugh Lane extension will have a room dedicated to Sean Scully and these painting will be on permanent display.

the hugh lane collection is a mess in the sense that it doesn’t attempt to be encyclopedic, they just end up with these great things, the hugh lane impressionist paintings, the francis bacon studio and now the scullys