• Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Games
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Games
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Games
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
Skip to content
Hyperallergic

Hyperallergic

Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Membership

Copenhagen

Posted inNews

Tourist Slammed for Smooching Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid Statue

by Rhea Nayyar September 14, 2023September 14, 2023

Bystanders loudly criticized an unnamed woman who climbed onto the seaside landmark for a photo despite multiple posted warning signs.

Posted inArt

Ragnar Kjartansson’s Spiritual Satire

by AX Mina July 9, 2023July 7, 2023

Much of Kjartansson’s work combines dry humor with a sobering examination of power and violence.

Posted inArt

Alexander Tovborg Seeks the Sacred in the Aesthetic

by AX Mina June 19, 2023June 22, 2023

Kirken works because modern galleries have quasi-religious qualities, with white walls and empty spaces creating an atmosphere for contemplation.

Posted inArt

How Can We Mend the Fashion World?

by AX Mina February 26, 2023February 24, 2023

Beautiful Repair: Mending in Art and Fashion at Copenhagen Contemporary explores the aesthetics of mending through the lens of art and fashion.

Posted inArt

The Cold Gaze and the Myth of Objectivity

by AX Mina February 15, 2023February 15, 2023

A Copenhagen exhibition offers a rich view into the creative production and daily life in the Weimar Republic, with its glamour and its grotesquerie.

Posted inArt

Two Nordic Art Fairs Look Beyond Geography

by Leah Triplett Harrington January 23, 2023January 24, 2023

Down Иorth: North Atlantic Triennial and CHART suggest a model of regional exhibition-making that refutes the essentialism common in contemporary art.

Posted inNews

Danish Artist’s Racist “Covid China” Artwork Draws Outrage

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie January 4, 2023January 6, 2023

Instead of apologizing, the artist mocked a Chinese student who protested the work.

Posted inNews

The Happiness Museum Shares Denmark’s Well-being Secrets

by Hakim Bishara September 29, 2020November 5, 2020

According to the United Nation’s annual ranking, Denmark is the world’s second happiest country.

Posted inArt

Courtroom Sketches from Ai Weiwei’s Legal Battle Against Volkswagen

Avatar photo by Zachary Small May 23, 2019

The artist has filed a lawsuit against the company for copyright infringement after the automaker used one of his works about the refugee crisis as a backdrop for its cars.

Posted inArt

Artists Dream Up Digital Dystopias

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado May 25, 2017

A group show at Kunsthal Charlottenborg imagines an unknown future full of sleek techno-chaos.

Posted inIn Brief

Facebook Censors Photo of Copenhagen’s Beloved Little Mermaid Statue

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne January 4, 2016January 11, 2016

For more than a century, Edvard Eriksen’s bronze statue of “The Little Mermaid” has perched quietly on a waterside rock in Copenhagen, offending virtually no one.

Posted inArt

Mundane Horror in Abandoned Stasi Spaces

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 23, 2014September 24, 2014

As we creep up on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (November 9, 1989), some of the remains of the oppressive Ministry for State Security, aka the Stasi, remain as if in their own time capsule.

Posts navigation

1 2 Older posts
Creative Dialogues: Curating with Community Partners
Sponsored

Creative Dialogues: Curating with Community Partners

Join the New-York Historical Society for a virtual discussion on how museums and community leaders can collaborate with Ryan N. Dennis, Peggy Fogelman, and Betsy Bradley.

Hyperallergic
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn

Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Home
  • Latest
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • About
  • Support Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Sign In
  • Membership
  • Newsletters
  • Submissions
  • Careers
© 2023 Hyperallergic. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy