Radical drinks pricing policy: Yuppies pay extra

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I wrote about Karierrebar earlier, a rather unique place where art space and bar room melts together.
Now they’ve launched a new pricing polity, courtesy of artist Kenneth Balfelt. According to this, the bartender will decide what you pay for your drinks. The price is set according to social status, sexual orientation, and skin color. You [...]

Opening tonite: Classy art bar in CPH’s meat district

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It’s not every day you want to blog about a new bar opening, in fact this is a first for me. Karierre Bar (En: ‘Career Bar’) is a new artist-initiated, -curated, and in part -driven place in the old meat district (‘Kødbyen’) in Copenhagen. Considering the municipal aim to revitalize this old industrial complex, this [...]

The promise of art keeps vandals away

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Take a good close look at this picture and tell me what’s wrong. Any suggestions? Well, what if I told you that this plywood wall is located in the centre of otherwise graffiti infested Copenhagen and that it’s been clean like this for at least a month now.
Notice the white sheet of paper to the [...]

This Sunday: Political cinema + art books

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The recent release of RAF-member Birgitte Mohnhaupt and the destruction of the ‘Ungdomshuset’ (formerly hotbed for alternative culture and street-level activism) calls for political flashback … according to these guys, anyway:
STATION 16, a newly formed Copenhagen group dedicated to the exhibition of avant-garde, experimental and underground cinema, takes this opportunity with it’s debut screening to [...]

Are you an artist too? A stripper?

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Today I just learned that striptease by court rule from now on is to be considered an art. In Norway, of all places. This means that shows from now on are exempt from VAT on tickets because “Striptease (…) is a form of dance combined with acting,” three judges decided unanimously. I wonder if a) [...]