CATEGORIESA Haven for creative expression
Aaron Dessner from The National has teamed up with chef Claus Meyer and brewer Mikkel Borg Bjergsø to create a festival, Haven, that celebrates good music, food and beer. Ahead of its launch
this August, Dessner sat down to talk about the origins of the festival, why The National has a political position, and the things that Denmark is doing right – but why Danes shouldn't be complacent
Raising the Barr
Copenhagen finally has a decent restaurant that cooks unfashionable dishes such as frikadeller and schnitzel – Barr offers a modern, elegant take on northern European comfort food
Out of the frame, off the page
The 'grandmother of performance art', Marina Abramović, is taking up residency in Copenhagen this summer with a major retrospective at Louisiana and a new installation at the Royal Library. We met the curators of both exhibitions to learn more about the way Abramović's work unsettles our typical understanding of art and literature, and how static viewers become active participants
The feeling of completely falling in love with music has never left me
A 25-year-old producer has been tasked with creating the score for a 400-year-old play. But despite his young age, Mike Sheridan has already arrived at a stage in his career where he feels ready to take on the challenge of creating the soundscape for one of Denmark's most important theatrical events – Hamlet at Kronborg
“You have to learn to control anxiety – to be friends with it”
Copenhagen's restaurants are overrated, and New Nordic has become a monoculture, says Michelin-starred chef Paul Cunningham
PHOTOS – Distortion 2017
We hit the streets during the Distortion street parties in Copenhagen. This is what we saw.
“It is automatic that I would write about jazz and women”
Over three pieces of smørrebrød in the Hvide Lam, James Clasper talks to American writer Thomas E. Kennedy about being introduced to jazz by his Trump-supporting brother, how his children might not like his new book, and moving to Denmark in the 1970s – and never leaving
“I take a look at the grain, take away what’s uninteresting, and shape what’s left. I do the same with life”
Some of Denmark's most acclaimed pipe makers are women, producing internationally sought after collector items. James Clasper spoke to four of them
Hops Not Hate – turning social drinking into social giving
When consumers buy a Hops Not Hate-labelled beer, they are donating to international and local charities at every link in the supply chain
“We can’t grow wine here – we’re a beer country”
Mikkeller's international beer festival returns to Copenhagen in May, so
we had a chat with the brewer's co-founder Mikkel Borg Bjergsø about which
beers to watch out for, what makes beer and running natural partners, and
why ice cubes really can go in beer (but only if it's a Berliner Weisse)
BIG TIME – a documentary about dreaming big without the shackles of the Jantelov
For six years, Kasper Astrup Schröder followed the architect Bjarke Ingels, and documented his precocious rise to fame as cities around clamour for a slice of the BIG philosophy
Noma’s legacy leaves foodies mad about Copenhagen
While no longer home to the world's best restaurant, Copenhagen's food scene has never been more diverse. James Clasper points us in the direction of six of the city's best new restaurants to get stuck in to