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Richard Rogers Partnership, Lloyd’s of London, 1978-86. © Richard Bryant / arcaidimages.com & Piano + Rogers, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1971-77. © Francois Le Diascorn / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
José Chávez Morado, 'Carnaval en Huejotzingo (Carnival in Huejotzingo)' (detail), 1939. Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 96.5 cm. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Loyal Davis © DACS 2013.
Sidney Nolan, 'Ned Kelly' (detail), 1946. Enamel paint on composition board. 90.8 x 121.5 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gift of Sunday Reed, 1977.
© TRACEY EMIN. All rights reserved, DACS 2013. Photo: KERRY RYAN.
23 April 2012
At the Geological Society, Piccadilly
Stephen Poliakoff 
Natural History Museum interior Photo: © Natural History Museum
Acclaimed playwright, screenwriter and director Stephen Poliakoff selects the Natural History Museum, the setting for his short film Astonish Me (2011), as his chosen building. The distinctive Romanesque-style museum, designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905), is home to a collection of 70 million specimens, ranging from microscopic slides to mammoth skeletons. Having spent much of his childhood wandering through its great spaces and amongst its wonders, the museum has remained vivid in his imagination.
Respondents include Professor Richard Fortey and Dr Gowan Dawson.
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