Dates for the diary

9/5-14/9 Renzo Piano - in the series "The Architect's Studio" at Louisiana. www.louisiana.dk

In the series The Architect’s Studio, Louisiana has in recent years focused on some of the most innovative and influential architects of our time. Having so far included Frank O. Gehry, Henning Larsen and Norman Foster, these shows have been conceived as studio exhibitions, offering insight into the individual architect’s work processes, methods and sources of inspiration. The upcoming exhibition, which is also the last in this series, presents the Italian architect Renzo Piano.

Renzo Piano was born in 1937 in Genova, Italy and graduated from Milan Polytechnic Architecture School in 1964. He made his international breakthrough with the Centre Pompidou in Paris (1972 – 77) which he designed in collaboration with architect Richard Rogers. The exposed steel skeleton of this building, the bold colours applied to its technical installations and the accentuation of its internal passageways are characteristic of Renzo’s high-tech form of expression. He has since designed the Menil Collection Museum in Houston, Texas (1981 – 87), the Kansai Airport Terminal in Osaka, Japan (1994) and the Paul Klee Museum in Bern, Switzerland (1999).

18/5 Copenhagen Marathon 2003 - join in or watch the others.
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Until 25/5 Impressionism and the North - a major exhibition of the links between French Impressionism, Post Impressionism and Scandinavian Art at The Statens Museum for Kunst.  www.smk.dk

Until 25/5 Voyage to Mars - At The Experimentarium

Until 31/5 The Age of Impressionism - presentation of the Ordrupgaard Collection which during 2002 toured museums in the US.   Now showing at Ordrupgaard.    www.ordrupgaard.dk

23/5-31/8 Arnold Newman - American renowned photographer born 1918 with a very personal, unorthodox and - at times - provocative method - at Louisiana.
www.louisiana.dk

Among the great personalities portrayed by the master photographer Arnold Newman are Woody Allen, Leonard Bernstein, Jean Cocteau, David Hockney, John F. Kennedy, Piet Mondrian, Marilyn Monroe, Georgia O’Keeffe (not least), Eugene O’Neill, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky and Andy Warhol.

Arnold Newman is a pioneer and supreme master of the Environmental Portrait, a form of portraiture in which the setting is a key element: the artist in his studio; the politician in his office or in front of a government building; the scientist in his laboratory. ”People exist in space”, says Arnold Newman, who brings together two major traditions in American photography: the studio portrait and the documentary photo.

Born in New York on 3rd March, 1918, Newman began photographing in Philadelphia at the age of twenty. Despite the fact that the 1930s depression was a difficult time in the U. S., he quickly became successful and in the 1940s established his own studio in New York’s Manhattan.

Over the years, Newman has become one of the world’s most respected photographers. He has portrayed all American presidents since Harry S. Truman. His most famous portrait, shot in New York in 1946, is of the composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky. Stravinsky is seated at the lower left corner of the picture, taking up very little space in comparison to the large, curved lid of a grand piano. In this almost musical composition, Newman has placed the composer as a ”detail” of its large, musical space.

25/5 "1000 & 2000 Guineas"  at the Copenhagen Race Course
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11/4-21/9 Tivoli - Summer season in the beautiful amusement park in the heart of Copenhagen with many outside and indoor activities.  www.tivoligardens.com  Please see "Getting to Know the Danes"