This past Friday on a predictably chilly evening in Copenhagen, the city’s cultural glitterati gathered to celebrate one of Denmark’s most acclaimed artists, Per Kirkeby, and the great American ...

Markell Gallery, Boyd Gallery, Walker Gallery, Shaw Ruddock Gallery, Bowdoin Gallery The exhibition introduces to American audiences Danish artist Per Kirkeby (born 1938), one of Europe's most ...

Per Kirkeby, a Danish artist who trained as a geologist before turning to painting quasi-abstract landscapes that were often characterized as neo-expressionist, died May 9 at his home in Copenhagen.

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Danish artist Per Kirkeby trained as an arctic geologist, and much of the work in his current Phillips Collection retrospective is as dark and heavy as volcanic mud. Some of that exhibition's motifs ...

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The artist Per Kirkeby died today (9 May) in Copenhagen, aged 79, according to his gallery, Michael Werner. Born in the Danish capital in 1938, Kirkeby was a painter, sculptor, poet, novelist, ...