Eventually, conservators plan to install compact fluorescents and metal-halide lamps in the dioramas' recessed lighting galleries, since they give off the same amount of light as the older fluorescent and tungsten lamps but are much cooler in operation.
The rest is made up of smaller businesses, such as flooring stores and lighting galleries.
It is harrowing to contemplate the 29 works from the series gathered in one dimly lighted gallery.
Artspace, incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1984, moved in July into new quarters on Audubon Street, including a brightly lighted gallery.
"These marbles were sculpted for the Parthenon, designed to be on the Acropolis, under the natural light of the Attica sky, not a dimly lit gallery off Tottenham Court Road".
A few minutes after I walked into the hushed, softly lighted gallery, a woman in a heavy coat entered, moved to one of the cases against a wall and began sneezing.
The first clue is in front of you as you walk into the atmospherically lit gallery (it's as shadowy as a fashionable Japanese restaurant) – and it is massive.
So it seemed fitting that royal turban ornaments dripping with pecan-sized emeralds and golden belts encrusted with luminous diamonds were humbly displayed in all their gaudy splendor in an ordinary, dimly lit gallery at the National Museum.
The 2002 sculpture, entitled "Etroits Sont les Vaisseaux," or "Narrow Are the Vessels," is on extended loan to the museum, where it looks almost elegant in the center of an artfully lighted gallery.
If you're looking for something that will stimulate those doors of perception, check out this exhibition, which features a dimly lighted gallery installed with works that employ ultraviolet light.
