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...last completed Opera House model, from 1966 - "so we have the two sides of his mind," the curator explains. "The free, poetic side, and also the very practical, analytical side." Once inside, the visitor is thrust before the architect's very eyes. As a young graduate from Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Arts, Utzon zoomed his home-movie lens on ancient world monuments, from the Mayan temples of Yucatan, to Chinese pagodas and Iranian mosques. Watching such footage in the show, one can see the steps of the Opera House forming, and its ceramic shells glittering in Utzon's mind...
...small studio north of Copenhagen, Utzon drew on film footage of Sydney and, being the son of a naval architect, consulted admiralty charts of the harbor; he was struck by the similarity of Bennelong Point to the nearby Helsing?r-Elsinore peninsula, where Shakespeare set Hamlet. What eventually crystallized in his drawings was a raised plateau and airborne structures not unlike sails. In his original plans, the podium would house the backstage business; upstairs, the public spectacle would unfurl. Utzon is often cast by his critics as a Hamlet-like figure, a daydreamer unable to carry out his plans. This exhibition...
...It’s like the TV show Alias mixed with the play Copenhagen mixed with Marat/Sade,” he says with a laugh...
...gates of Vienna in 1683 "would have been in vain." It's not clear what all this sound and fury really signifies. Technically, the E.U. has already agreed to begin talks with Turkey "without delay" if the European Commission finds that it has met the so-called Copenhagen Criteria, the set of political, economic and legal standards spelled out in the Danish capital in June 1993. Verheugen has already indicated there are "no more obstacles" to talks getting started, though his report is expected to contain a "yes, but ..." clause that would allow the E.U. to keep pressure on Turkey...
DIED. JOERGEN NASH, 84, provocative Danish artist and author of 42 books who took responsibility for beheading Copenhagen's famed Little Mermaid statue with a hacksaw in 1963; in Copenhagen. In the 1960s he engaged in such antics as blowing whistles to interrupt Parliament, unleashing mice at the Danish Literature Academy and tossing firecrackers onstage at the Copenhagen Royal Theater...