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Plus, the South Korean president s son got a federal artist relief grant and the head of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts steps down.
December 22, 2020
Rapper Westside Gunn arriving to the Palm Angels Fashion Show in New York City. (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images)
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Kirsten Langkilde (left) was fired from her post at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen after a bust of Frederik V (right) was removed and thrown into the nearby canal
The controversy engulfing the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark’s most prestigious art school, over a dumped royal bust took a new turn last week when the college rector was forced to step down. Kirsten Langkilde resigned after the Danish culture ministry said “new powers” are needed at the academy.
The move is the latest twist in a saga that began 6 November when a replica 1950s bust of the 18th-century monarch Frederik V displayed at the academy was removed and thrown into the nearby canal.
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The director of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has been fired after signalling her approval when an “anti-colonial” art collective destroyed a bust of the founder of the academy, King Frederick V.
The Danish Ministry of Culture announced that Kirsten Langkilde would be stepping down from her role as director of the fine art academy this week. The move comes after severe criticism of her apparent approval of the destruction of the bust, which in a video of its removal appeared to show the work of art smashing as it tumbled down a harbour wall into the water.
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The head of Denmark s top art school has been sacked over the drowning of a bust of a former king in a Copenhagen canal, the culture ministry said Monday.
Artist Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld lost her job when she took a replica bust of the 18th-century monarch Frederik V from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where she was employed, and dumped it to draw attention to the country s colonial past and its involvement in the slave trade, especially in modern day Ghana.
The action, which she called a happening, was initially carried out anonymously. Dirckinck-Holmfeld was removed from her post the day she came forward as the responsible party.
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