Summary
The boom has brought a frenzy of development to the Danish capital and an eruption of signature buildings: the Royal Library's "Black Diamond" on the waterfront; a new opera house on the waterfront; and a new theatre also, oddly enough, on the waterfront. Yet the greatest signature building of them all remains the stark Thorvaldsens Museum, apolychrome, mid-igth-century, neoclassical monument next to the now-redundant docks being colonised by the super-rich, in which are entombed the works of the only sculptor to rival Canova in pan-European prestige, Bertel Thorvaldsen. Like Whistler's compositions, Portrait of a Young Woman is a study in tonality rather than in light and colour, and it was promptly rejected for the prize at the Royal Danish Academy's exhibition.
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Poetry Without Motion
Copenhagen is, so they say, "the new Singapore", perfectly positioned to take advantage of the economic surge that is engulfing northern Europe. Denmark is close to Russia and is now linked to Sweden by a bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö. The boom has brought a frenzy of development to the Danish capital and an eruption of signature buildings: the Royal Library's "Black Diamond" on the waterfront; a new opera house on the waterfront; and a new theatre also, oddly enough, on the wa...
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