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    • June 20, 2001 at 12:47 pm #705025
      Jack
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      Does anyone think that there is any chance that Michael Scott’s Irish pavilion for the New york world fair, could be re-built here in Ireland in the future…………

    • June 21, 2001 at 2:52 pm #716255
      dc3
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      Technically no problem. The IAA has an impressive set of plans and there may well be plans in the USA with the building control people there. Legal rights might be a problem to sort out.

      The artwork is lost, but there are B&W photos.

      And let us not forget the little garden in front in the shape of Ireland, – a nice twee little touch.

    • June 21, 2001 at 2:55 pm #716256
      Jack
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      What artwork is lost……. I thought that the majority of the artwork on show was on loan from the National Gallery and private collectors

    • June 21, 2001 at 3:32 pm #716257
      GregF
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      ….but to think of it for a moment…does’nt that border on a bit of the old blarney…you know what ye’d get in tourist shops but this is in architectural terms….a building in the shape of a shamrock (I bet the interior had green somewhere) with a wee little garden in the shape of dear old Ireland …..visions of Dana singing ‘all kinds of everything’…… Flately doin’ the Riverdance, Maeve Binchy, the pictures of the Pope, JFK and the Sacred Heart over a log fire with a cauldron of stew,Guinneass,Christy ‘Diddle De Idle’ Moore, Aran Jumpers and Auld Dev,etc….. ….does it not sound all a bit kitch. Jeff Koons stuff.
      It’s our culture I suppose.

      [This message has been edited by GregF (edited 21 June 2001).]

    • June 21, 2001 at 3:36 pm #716258
      Jack
      Participant

      Believe it or not at the time, it was original, when it did become very twee years later, Michael tried to give the credit to a politician for the inspiration of the floor plan/building shape

      [This message has been edited by Jack (edited 21 June 2001).]

    • June 21, 2001 at 8:27 pm #716259
      dc3
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      Lost artwork query earlier

      The building mural,”The Shannon Basin” by Sean Keating,which was painted on board in sections, and in total size was 9.1m X 24.4m does not seem to have been taken back from New York.

    • June 22, 2001 at 9:53 am #716260
      GregF
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      Just to add…….. being an artist myself Keating was a much over rated artist who’s paintings bordered on extreme Irish sentimentality (tourist rubbish) and he was an extremely dogmatic personality shunning the advances of Modern Art. Perfect for Scotts ‘pile’….Begorrah! Bejasus!

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