Nostalgia

Anyone wanting to understand the art of this choreographer must travel to Copenhagen, walk past Tivoli from the train station, turn right onto Hans Christian Andersen Boulevard, and take the first entrance: to the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Opened in 1897, it delights its visitors with a lushly planted, glass-roofed atrium and radially arranged halls, in which sculptures from antiquity are arranged according to eras and regions. Within two or three hours, one can travel from the Nile via the Euphrates and Tigris to Greece and on to ancient Rome. The collection, which dates back to the Carlsberg brewery and is still funded by the company of the same name, naturally has a few dark colonial and injustice-related blemishes; provenance research is only slowly getting underway. But that doesn't ...