Bizarre, extravagant, irregular like the flawed pearl after which it would take its name. Baroque art leaves the circle and marries the oval, moves away from the measure and looks for optical illusionism. Theater becomes part of architecture, realism is placed at the...

It’s a matter of fact: a string of style and culture runs on the almost 16 suspended kilometers of the Øresund or Öresund bridge, depending on whether you speak Danish or Swedish. It is not just an identity tie torn from History (with a capital H), the one made of...