21 March 2012

St. Patrick's Day

While it’s not hugely popular in Denmark, Copenhagen celebrated St. Patrick’s day with some Irish dancers, bagpipes, and a participatory parade. Then again, some people get really into it…


I celebrated by going to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. The Museum is built around a little park right next to the ocean with the revived humanistic idea of nature as art. It is not intended as a teaching museum, so there aren’t a lot of words or explanations behind the pieces. In this way it is “perceptually democratic.” Young, old, Danish, American, educated, non-educated: what we all have in common is the ability to feel and experience, which is really what art is all about.







See it sort of looks like a Louisiana plantation house, but the story goes that the man who first owned the property had three wives- all named Louise!

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  1. I saw an Kusama installation last summer in Madrid - eight or nine rooms of her crazy stuff! I really liked the blacklight installations, but google for more representations of her work. I went to a bluegrass jam on St. Patrick's Day. Do they have green skies and blue grass in Denmark? lolz.

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