Denmark

The artist who recreates photographs as monumental charcoal pictures is at his best among the world’s trouble spots

Digging into the details and data to separate the noise from the news

Thinkers like Kierkegaard used complexity and literary style, rather than clarity, to provoke reflection on existential questions

Denmark has recently ranked second on the World Happiness Report and the capital's love of jazz is a reflection of that

Once divided on independence from Denmark, the Faroe Islands now see a clear path forward – and it’s largely down to Donald Trump

The Arctic island nation wants to break its ties with Denmark, and its search for independence has brought up horrific stories from the past

This is not a game or a spectacle – it’s about the fate of a nation whose path towards independence is still unfolding

Thomas Vinterberg founded Dogma 95 and changed the movie industry for ever. Is another revolution possible – and what would it look like?

In Fanø, a tiny island off Denmark’s west coast, signs of the second world war endure for residents today

A new movie role shows there is much more to Sofie Gråbøl than that chunky jumper she wore as Sarah Lund in the classic Scandi noir drama

Jens Haaning’s fans call the stunt a daring conceptual piece of satire. However, a Danish court says it’s a crime

After WWII, Britain started building new play areas for its children – and imported its inspiration from Europe

The original Danish variety of troll doll holds more history than that of its American imitations

Jutland, at the edge of the EU, has found itself in the centre of the bloc's response to Vladimir Putin's aggression

The Dane had a reputation as a vamp but in truth was as fragile as a gazelle

Nobody stuck a poster of Niels Bohr, wild-haired and with his tongue out, on their wall, but the Dane did as much for expanding the range of scientific knowledge in the modern age as Albert Einstein

Denmark’s biggest literary celebrity returns to the remote peninsula where she grew up

Chef Sean Pakbaz from Kuku presents his Persian herb stew

Flee is the best representation yet of what it really means to be a refugee

Heilung's ancient-sounding music has slotted neatly into pop culture’s current enthusiasm for a bloody and merciless northern European past

A Danish drama set in the world of social work paints an unbearable balancing act of competing harms

Six years after the referendum, predictions of a mass exodus from the EU have proved – like so many other things they claimed – wide of the mark

Despite some great performances, narratively there is not much at the heart of this Danish comic drama

A company is offering the ultimate symbol of wealth - a 52-metre luxury yacht tethered to a 200-metre helium airship

Deprived of the opportunity of having collaborators in the studio, the Danish experimental electronic chamber pop band have self-produced their new album

The establishment, where the Russian leader developed a liking for German beer, has now also taken down its shrine to the president

News you might have missed from across Europe

A chart star alongside the likes of Iggy Azalea and Justin Bieber, Karen Marie Ørsted, aka MØ, is now striking out on her own

Volbeat's Lasses Birgitta tells the story of a woman, who became one of many, executed for witchcraft in the Swedish island of Öland, over 450 years ago.

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

Janus Boye, a Social Democrat in Denmark, has earned himself a new nickname after the sun faded out the first and last letters of his name on a poster.

How much attention should we pay to food reviews and rankings? Philosopher NIGEL WARBURTON gives his take.