https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Denmark in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A Danish artist has won an injunction against Faroese watch makers who wanted to repurpose one of his canvases as a range of designer timepieces. https://www.thelocal.dk/20191202/not-ok-to-chop-up-painting-danish-court-puts-stop-to-watch-wind-up Mon, 02 Dec 2019 18:29:00 +0100 not-ok-to-chop-up-painting-danish-court-puts-stop-to-watch-wind-up Vilhelm Hammershøi's 1900 painting ‘Interior from Strandgade 30’ was sold at auction on Tuesday for 31.5 million kroner, a new Danish record. https://www.thelocal.dk/20191128/danish-painting-sells-for-record-breaking-315-million-kroner Thu, 28 Nov 2019 14:51:43 +0100 danish-painting-sells-for-record-breaking-315-million-kroner With light, mist and rain, Olafur Eliasson brings nature into the Tate Modern for a new London exhibition that appeals to visitors' senses while, at points, disorientating them. https://www.thelocal.dk/20190710/danish-icelandic-artist-eliasson-recreates-nature-at-londons-tate-modern Wed, 10 Jul 2019 18:28:56 +0200 danish-icelandic-artist-eliasson-recreates-nature-at-londons-tate-modern Students at the Rygaards international school in Copenhagen repainted a graffiti-covered wall near their school with their own street art-inspired project. https://www.thelocal.dk/20170613/denmark-international-students-cover-graffitihit-villa-wall-with-art-project Tue, 13 Jun 2017 19:38:14 +0200 denmark-international-students-cover-graffitihit-villa-wall-with-art-project Danish auction website Lauritz.com unintentionally sold a painting that is included in a list of stolen works. https://www.thelocal.dk/20170328/danish-auctioneer-sold-stolen-painting Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:12:05 +0200 danish-auctioneer-sold-stolen-painting A controversial nude photo exhibition by the artist Mathilde Grafström finally opened on Copenhagen’s Nytorv square on Monday after months of wrangling with the local police. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160726/controversial-nude-photo-exhibition-opens-in-copenhagen Tue, 26 Jul 2016 11:09:21 +0200 controversial-nude-photo-exhibition-opens-in-copenhagen A whole host of looted Etruscan treasures, including a prince's golden carriage, will begin arriving back in Italy after spending the last forty years on display at a Danish museum. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160706/italy-gets-back-stolen-gold-cart-of-etruscan-prince-from-denmark Wed, 06 Jul 2016 14:39:18 +0200 italy-gets-back-stolen-gold-cart-of-etruscan-prince-from-denmark Heartland Festival - a celebration of music, art, food and talks – made its debut this weekend at the pristine Egeskov Castle grounds on Funen. The Local’s Allan Kortbaek was on hand to catch some of the action. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160613/new-danish-festival-makes-solid-first-impression Mon, 13 Jun 2016 18:24:24 +0200 new-danish-festival-makes-solid-first-impression Heartland Festival, the latest entry on Denmark’s long list of summer festivals, will debut this weekend on the island of Funen. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160607/new-danish-festival-offers-music-art-and-talks-in-castle-setting Tue, 07 Jun 2016 13:53:33 +0200 new-danish-festival-offers-music-art-and-talks-in-castle-setting The National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum for Kunst - SMK) will replace potentially offensive words from art titles and descriptions with more neutral terms, its head of collections told Politiken on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160607/national-gallery-of-denmark-removes-negro-from-art-titles Tue, 07 Jun 2016 12:18:50 +0200 national-gallery-of-denmark-removes-negro-from-art-titles Danish police has stopped an exhibition featuring photos of naked natural women from being shown on a square in central Copenhagen, claiming that the pictures are indecent. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151218/police-stop-nude-photo-exhibition-in-copenhagen Fri, 18 Dec 2015 12:50:55 +0100 police-stop-nude-photo-exhibition-in-copenhagen Trip Advisor has released its picks for the world's best museums and although there were no Danish entries on the list, the website's users also selected the ten best museums to visit in Denmark. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150916/ten-museums-you-must-visit-in-denmark Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:34:23 +0200 ten-museums-you-must-visit-in-denmark Danish artist and provocateur Uwe Max Jensen, perhaps best known for painting a portrait of Kim Kardishan with his penis, did a ‘happening’ in Aarhus that involved donning blackface and burning the Confederate flag. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150908/naked-danish-artist-burns-confederate-flag-in-blackface Tue, 08 Sep 2015 12:44:59 +0200 naked-danish-artist-burns-confederate-flag-in-blackface UPDATED: Police are searching for two men who posed as tourists and brazenly stole a bust worth as much as $300,000 from the Copenhagen museum Glypoteket in broad daylight. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150820/copenhagen-art-museum-theft-rodin-bust Thu, 20 Aug 2015 12:43:18 +0200 copenhagen-art-museum-theft-rodin-bust Artist Olafur Eliasson confronted onlookers with the realities of climate change by bringing 12 huge blocks of Greenlandic ice to downtown Copenhagen. See photos of the event here. https://www.thelocal.dk/20141026/photos-melting-ice-gives-wake-up-call-in-copenhagen Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:39:00 +0100 photos-melting-ice-gives-wake-up-call-in-copenhagen The Ny Carlsberg Glyptoket will present over 100 works that have added full colour to the classic white marble so closely associated with Western history. See a video showing classic art being getting the full-colour treatment here. https://www.thelocal.dk/20140911/museum-to-expose-white-lies-of-antiquity Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:25:00 +0200 museum-to-expose-white-lies-of-antiquity