Buchinger won popularity, too, by playing musical instruments, building tableaux of objects in bottles, loading and firing guns, doing magic tricks with cups and balls, and bowling — "knocking down pins on which a glass of liquor was balanced without missing a drop," according to one witness.
"We don't like what the government does so we support him," said Wim Keizer, curator of the Volendam museum, a small building filled with tableaux of families and fishermen in traditional dress, including a dog-drawn cart and the cabin of a North Sea fishing skiff.
For each photograph, Kim, who is based in Germany, lit interior rooms with colored gels and arranged the occupants of the buildings in everyday tableaux.
At the end of a day of hard-water sailing, after the sun set and the wind died down, food arrived, beer and wine were poured and a fire stove was lighted, building a living tableau of Hudson winters past.
Landscapes, buildings and domestic tableaux are described in loving, if often ominous, detail: the inside of St. Paul's Church is "as cavernous as the turkey Merle had earlier gutted for dinner".
She'd spent seven years taking pictures of abandoned buildings and other derelict tableaux.
Archways, street corners and cobbled alleys offer glimpses and tableaux of buildings and rooftops that, you feel, would still be familiar to Mozart or Musil or Wittgenstein - or Adolf Hitler, come to that.
To hype its exhibition "Maharaja," which opens Oct. 21 and explores the realm of India's legendary kings, the museum hired Mr. Patel to cover the museum's exterior with his effervescent Pop Art, transforming the stodgy gray neo-Classical-style building into a bright tableau of color and Hindu whimsy.
Some games, such as spider and scorpion, combine the tableau with the building piles, so that building takes place within the tableau itself.
A wastepile, to which is thrown faceup a card that, when turned from the stock, cannot legally be played to a building pile or to the tableau.
Eschewing "documentary" interviews with residents for a night-and-day time-lapse tableau of the building's formidable architecture, it is a powerfully modulated and intensely rhythmic piece.
