We arrived in Aarhus on Saturday, catching the train from Copenhagen that leaves from the airport. Nothing like fine public transportation. We're in a house in the suburbs (bus 14 leaves around the corner every 20 minutes direct to downtown). The house is open to a large garden. The name of this development means "enclosed field" and each house is precisely that...a house occupying only part of a large field enclosed by walls or hedges and, on one side, the house itself.
Thus far we've been to the town center to take in the art museum. Whose most "famous" sculpture is The Boy who looks, for a Dane, rather anxious. Our favorite installation was called "8 minutes at the neighbors," a living room in which you sit on a sofa or chairs and the room moves through 24 hours of sunlight, darkness, t.v. and lights are on, t.v. and lights are off, wind moves the plants, all the while a huge montage plays on one wall.... And our next favorite was a montage of cuts from disaster films showing tsunamis, earthquakes, aliens landing, cars and buildings blowing up, fires, floods...coming in such fast and furious sequence that you can't help but laugh and laugh...Hollywood over the top.
