In Brief
Facebook Censors Photo of Copenhagen's Beloved Little Mermaid Statue
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.
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Mundane Horror in Abandoned Stasi Spaces
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.
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One Language Traveller at the National Gallery of Denmark
If the stately looking Statens Museum for Kunst, or National Gallery of Denmark, has a fantastic (yet, small) early 20th C. French collection featuring a stunning Matisse room, it currently lacks few signs that contemporary art has an important role in its collection or mission. History stops abrupt
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The Best Matisse Room I've Ever Seen
Among the surprises at the Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark, is an exquisite room of early Matisses that will blow your mind.
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Poul Gernes's Palads Cinema, Too Much?
Near Arne Jacobsen's SAS Hotel and a stone's throw from Tivoli Gardens is a peculiar building painted by Danish artist Poul Gernes. Labeled as part of his "Decorations" on his website, this multi-colored building is a flash of color in the city. I've been told architects hate it, but I'm more curiou
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A Walk Into the Lobby of the World's First Designer Hotel
I couldn't imagine leaving Copenhagen without experiencing the classic Arne Jacobsen SAS Hotel that opened in 1960. One of the things that makes this structure so unique is that Jacobsen was commissioned by SAS, the Scandinavian airline, to design the world's first designer hotel. While the notion o
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Graffiti Writers Fail to Obey Controversial Fairey Mural in Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN — Shepard Fairey's wall mural at Jagtvej 69 in the Nørrebro neighborhood of Copenhagen may scream "Peace" but graffiti artists appear to have declared war on the art work that sits on the site of Ungdomshuset, the former leftist youth center that was destroyed by the country's right-wing
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Danish Architecture Is Going BIG
COPENHAGEN — I knew little about the Bjarke Ingels Group (aka BIG) or their architectural practice based in Denmark beyond some photos I had on the internet or publication. Well, yesterday, thanks to a request by Forrest Nash of Contemporary Art Daily, we were treated to a tour of a number of buildi
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Hyperallergic Travels to Copenhagen for Art Weekend
Starting tomorrow we will be filing reports on all we discover in this city renowned for exquisite design, social democracy, environmentalism and — more recently — Mohammad cartoons oops, wrong Danish city, we've learned something new already. We will explore what this city has to offer for the art
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Danes Tell Shepard Fairey "Go Home, Yankee Hipster"
Some Danes just beat up commercial propagandist street artist Shepard Fairey outside a nightclub calling him an "Obama illuminati" and telling him to "go back to America."