Upon Arrival in Denmark...a trip to the Louisiana Art Museum. Truly one of the most beautifully made buildings in an extraordinary landscape. Despite the snowstorm and our travel-fatigue, this place streams light in at every angle and facilitates enormous canvases. Again, I am awed to see old friends like the rooms devoted to Giacometti, like chapels in the light. And a sculpture garden sitting calmly amongst the canvas of turquoise ocean and snow-- Henry Moore and Calder. Really, one of the greatest modern art collections I've seen and in the right amount to digest before you actually go and digest the incredible seedy bread and smoked salmon and pickled vegetables at the cafe.
The thing that is most exciting to me about this is the Channel that they've created that seems (finally!) to answer one of my clarion calls: "where do normal people that can't tour the world see and hear about modern art!" (and it's little sister "why can't video art be online? Is a dark white room with too few benches really so special??") I have to delve into it more when I'm back in New York, but definitely check it out: interviews, videos, curated very much like the museum itself. Smart and cutting-edge, but really accessible.
The Louisiana Channel
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