The Danish Arts Foundation’s main mission is to support Danish artists and ensure that citizens from all over the country can experience high quality art. With the Danish Jewellery Box exhibition, the foundation wants both to showcase both the significance and development of contemporary Danish jewelry art and pay tribute to the German Danish Cultural …
Werke und Tage/Works and Days, at the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, contrasts contemporary Danish jewelry from the Danish Arts Foundation’s collection with ancient works of art from the Munich collections, linking together past and present and attesting to how the universal practice of adorning oneself has characterized humankind through every era. The Jewellery Collection of the Danish …
It’s the Thought That Counts is a book about the work of Kim Buck, covering his work starting from 1984 and ranging through 2007.
“Power is expressed through jewellery, and has done so throughout the centuries. As a result, we can understand the history of power via jewellery and strengthen our democratic dialogue on what power is today, how it expresses itself, and how it can be understood and influenced.” –Curatorial statement by the curator of the exhibition “The …
In 1557, Queen Dorothea, wife of Denmark’s King Christian III, donated a large and sumptuous ornament to the city of Copenhagen, making it available for the daughters of the mayors and councillors to use when they–the only people eligible to apply–received permission to hold their wedding receptions in the main chamber of the city hall. …
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