… Observe the inner workings of an Australian music icon?

While Nick Cave (and his unmistakeable baritone) has never really left the zeitgeist — consider the musician, composer, screenwriter and author’s 40-plus-year career, on repeat or counting on new missives through the ask-me-anything Red Hand Files will revel in a huge new exhibition at the Royal Danish Library’s Black Diamond, housed across eight rooms. On show will be several hundred items — think photographs, artworks, notebooks of handwritten lyrics and other obscurely fascinating possessions — from Cave’s own collection, plus others’ (such as those of the Arts Centre Melbourne). The exhibit has been scored by Cave himself, along with longtime bandmate Warren Ellis, and is sponsored by Gucci, of which Cave is a house favourite. If a Danish jaunt isn’t on the horizon, look out for the eponymous accompanying coffee table book, (Canongate).