Additions to the Site, December 2022

First up, we’re excited to have created new gallery pages for Italian modeler Francesco Terlizzi, French modeler Richard Poisson, Norwegian artist Ingvild Eiring, and the celebrated Norwegian diorama builder Per Olav Lund. In the existing galleries, we’ve added the latest by our friends and fellow box enthusiasts Jon Harbuck and John Long, and the site’s co-editor Jim DeRogatis has added two more boxes he built in 2022 to his own gallery page. Several photos of recent (or recently unearthed) box dioramas have been added to the Various Artists Newer Work page, including work by James Rice, Joris van Os, Ogan Akinci, Lorenzo Bernardin, and Mike Lynch, in addition to the results of the “Box Diorama Challenge” by the Plastic Crack Podcast Facebook Group. We’ve also added photos that Joe Berton found in an odd listing at Sotheby’s for “A Pair of Frog Dioramas, Probably French, Late 19th Century.” A fan of the site in the Netherlands made us aware of Dutch diorama builder W.G.L. Wieringa (1889-1973), and we’ve added some photos of his work to the Various Artists Older Work page, while on the Feature Articles page, we’ve added a “new” old piece, an epic chronicle of the construction of Brian Courtney’s box “Billeted on the Peasants,” and a fun piece on kids’ enduring love for shoebox dioramas that we’d missed last year in The New York Times. Thanks as always for taking a look at the site!