Bart Westgeest

The article “Litterære manifester for et nyt årti” in the Danish newspaper Informationen gives 9 manifestos of contemporary Danish writers containing their thoughts about literature in the new decennia that we just entered. As always the thoughts are personal and thereby very different from each other. Some don’t believe in manifestos while others write a [...]

I recently visited Vejle Kunstmuseum again. My previous visit had been some years ago, when it still was just one building, the old library. At that time there wasn’t too much space but I nevertheless liked the atmosphere and thought it had been a nice visit. Sometimes you get more out of a small museum than [...]

When listening to the danish language program Sproghjørnet I heard a discussion about the word “Prøvesten”. It was said that besides being a stone to test whether a material was what it seemed to be, for example gold,  it had also been the name of a ship. This ship, together with other ships, was after [...]

This blog has been inactive for a while because I started (together with my wife, Daniela Lot) working on and writing for another blog: intodenmark.dk A blog that in short posts looks into Denmark, its features, population and culture. For those that wonder what it is like. We want to provide information and a way of introducing [...]