27-01-2025
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- Wall Street Journal
‘Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century' Review: Cold Clime, Warm Welcome
New York
Dexter Gordon and Slide Hampton's jazz album 'A Day in Copenhagen'—piped into the galleries—is the principal soundtrack for 'Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century,' at Scandinavia House through March 8. Organized by the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, where it had its debut last year, the exhibition features African-American artists, musicians, performers, scholars and writers who sought creative freedom, education, inspiration, love and work—as well as refuge from racial discrimination and Jim Crow segregation—in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
