From her home in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Danish creative director SIMONE FABRICIUS reflects on having loved New York City since seeing it on the movie screen in the '80s, and moving there 15 years ago after a decade in Paris from Denmark. Simone talks about her work, which she calls "play," in brand, packaging, visual design, and illustration, and how she's particularly excited about the explosive developments and opportunities in the hospitality industry. 

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For today's episode, Simone Fabricius chose Jacob Biltius's Dead Wildfowl, or Dødt fuglevildt, from 1674 from the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMSsp610

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Private photograph

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This conversation with Tina Jøhnk Christensen occurred on February 5, 2025.

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From her home in New York, Pulitzer finalist and Ebbe Munck Prize-winning Danish writer and editor LOUISE BOKKENHEUSER talks her upcoming novel How to Organize the World, and recalls her time as a war correspondent in Bagdad, Iraq for The Los Angeles Times and what her experience taught her about human beings' capabilities in treating each other. She further shares her thoughts on the state of journalism in the US, and on the US under a second Trump presidency.

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For today's episode, Louise Roug Bokkenheuser chose J.F. Willumsen's En bjergbestigerske, or A Mountain Climber, from 1912 from the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS3413 

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Photographer: Maury Loeb

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This conversation with Tina Jøhnk Christensen occurred on January 27, 2025.

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From his apartment in Battery Park City in Manhattan, where he's called home since 1992, award-winning Odense-born Danish cartoonist and graphic novelist HENRIK REHR revisits starting his comic shop and drawing studio Den Blå Bil in his hometown in Odense. Henrik discusses his book Tribeca Sunset: A Story of 9-11 about his family's experience during the 2001 terrorist attack in New York City and shares his thoughts on how 9/11 changed the US.

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For today's episode, Henrik Rehr chose Christen Købke's Udsigt fra Dosseringen ved Sortedamssøen mod Nørrebro, or A View of Lake Sortedam from Dosseringen Looking Towards the Suburb Nørrebro Outside Copenhagen, from 1938 from the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS359

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Photographer: Sebastian Kim-Rehr

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This conversation with Tina Jøhnk Christensen occurred on February 5, 2025.

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From her home in Manhattan, Hellerup-born Danish journalist, writer, and tv personality MERETE ANGELICA BAIRD talks about her current projects, a memoir that is also a recipe book, and her popular Danish tv series Verdensdamerne, or Ladies of the World. She recalls her work as a journalist for Politiken and Weekendavisen, covering all aspects of art and culture, she revisits her world travels, and explains, based on her own 65-year old marriage, why Danes and Scots are a perfect match.

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For today's episode, Merete Angelica Baird chose Erik Henningsen's Sat ud, or Evicted Tenants, from 1892 from the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS1454

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Photographer: Henrik Thalbitzer

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This conversation with Tina Jøhnk Christensen occurred on February 18, 2025.

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From his home in Cooperstown in upstate New York, Danish photographer MARC HOM recalls moving to New York City when he was 21, and cutting his teeth working at Harper's Bazaar. A veteran New Yorker known for his iconic portraits of some of the world's most notable figures, Marc talks about establishing trust with his subjects, and about his recent museum exhibition Marc Hom: Re-Framed, his first, in which he challenged his viewers to understand photography in new and unexpected ways.

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For today's episode, Marc Hom chose Paul Høm's Stuen, or The Sitting Room, from 1938 from the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS4205

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Photographer: Thomas Loof

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This conversation with Tina Jøhnk Christensen occurred on January 15, 2025.

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From her home in Copenhagen, Danish actress AMANDA COLLIN recalls her first acting seminar in New York at 23, which led to her iconic roles today in Danish films The Promised Land (2024) and The Quiet Ones (2024) and US series House of the Dragon (2024). Amanda talks about play in acting, and about accepting the unknown and being in the present. And she shares her latest project, The Creative Cycle Wheel, conceived and imagined for creative women.

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For today's episode, Amanda Collin chose Anne Marie Carl Nielsen's En dame på sin yndlingshest. Frederikke Lørup, f. Helms, or A Lady Mounted on Her Favourite Horse, from 1897–1901 from the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark.

https://www.open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS6085 

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Photographer: HEIN photography

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This conversation with Tina Jøhnk Christensen occurred on December 3, 2024.

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From her home in Gentofte outside of Copenhagen, Danish director and former child star BARBARA TOPSØE-ROTHENBORG revisits her 11-year stay in Los Angeles, starting when she was 21, where she got her filmmaking education on the job. Returning home in search of a directing career and a work-life balance, Barbara talks about her film Loving Adults, the first Netflix Danish language original feature, and other projects that highlight her priority to tell female and personal stories. 

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For today's episode, Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg chose C.A. Lorentzen's Udsigt over Drammen i Norge, or View Towards Drammen, Norway, from 1790–1799 from the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS920

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Photographer: Caspar Willumsen

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This conversation with Tina Jøhnk Christensen occurred on November 12, 2024.

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From his home in Nordvest, Copenhagen, Danish-American photographer JAMIL GS recalls his time living in Los Angeles as a child, growing up bi-cultural in Denmark, and moving to New York in the 1990s where for 20 years, he captured hip-hop and street culture. Jamil talks about encountering racism in the US, and his artistic life celebrating multiculturalism. He talks about Young Stringers, an initiative he started to respond to rhetoric towards immigrant communities in Denmark today.

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For today's episode, Jamil GS chose SUPERFLEX's FOREIGNERS, PLEASE DON'T LEAVE US ALONE WITH THE DANES! from 2002 from the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS8810 

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Photographer: Mishael Fapohunda

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This conversation with Tina Jøhnk Christensen occurred on November 12, 2024.

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From her production company on Vesterbrogade, Copenhagen-born Oscar-nominated Danish film producer SIGNE BYRGE SØRENSEN shares her thoughts on what she learned to do producing her new film, The End, her first narrative feature and a six-country co-production. Signe talks about film as a collaborative art form, what she looks for in projects, the public support of film in Denmark, and the practical benefits, especially for documentaries, of award campaigns and film festivals.

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For today's episode, Signe Byrge Sørensen chose Loui Michael's Imaginær sceneri. Nocturne, or Imaginary Scene. Nocturne, from 1981 from the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS7159 

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Photographer: Pascal Bünning

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This conversation with Tina Jøhnk Christensen occurred on February 10, 2025.

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From his home in Copenhagen, a city he's called home for more than a decade, Texas-born Oscar-nominated American-Danish filmmaker JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER talks about his new narrative film The End (2024), an apocalyptic musical. Joshua discusses The End alongside his Oscar-nominated documentary films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), and how the three provocative and divisive projects are mirrors to challenge us to look at ourselves.

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For today's episode, Joshua Oppenheimer chose Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Striden mellem Fastelavn og Fasten, or The Strife between Carnival and Lent, from 1562 from the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS1639

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Photographer: Pascal Bünning

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This conversation with Tina Jøhnk Christensen occurred on January 23, 2025.

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