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Condition Report: Anders Kold, Louisiana Museum of Art

Forty kilometers north of Copenhagen lies the unlikely host to some of the most powerful exhibitions of contemporary American artists. Kold, the curator of the Louisiana Museum, opens up about his pioneering new Basquiat show, the beauty of works on paper, and the “sauna” effect of a rural museum.

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Anders Kold
"Basically, the idea of international art came with Louisiana, and this is what we feel is our lasting mark on the museum business—that our visitors come here to see in-depth exhibitions of artists relevant to the day," says Anders Kold, the Louisiana’s curator and head of acquisitions. Photo: Courtesy of Anders Kold/Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Marion Maneker
February 11, 2026

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Much like it fell to the Rolling Stones to teach (white) America about the blues, and to the Japanese to revive New England prep, distinctly American artists sometimes benefit from a fresh perspective from afar. A half-hour’s drive from Copenhagen, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art has been showing contemporary artists—many of them American—with an ingenuity and point of view that make other, larger institutions seem flat-footed. It mounted a major Richard Prince exhibition in 2022 and showed a retrospective of Robert Longo’s large drawings last year. Now, the museum has opened a new Basquiat exhibit, featuring 50 works on paper from the early 1980s that the artist never sold.

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