Konserthuset Stockholm

This guide to Konserthuset Stockholm centers on the blue carpet rolled out each December 10th for the Nobel ceremony, and on 2018, when it was walked by an unusually thin crowd of laureates. It traces the crisis inside the Swedish Academy that year, the allegations against a French photographer married to one of its members, and the resignations that followed. Look up at architect Ivar Tengbom's self-mixed blue facade and Carl Milles's bronze Orpheus before you listen for what the Academy decided to do about that December.