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The Munch Museum was recently the scene of a climate-activist performance stunt.
The Munch Museum’s opening exhibition featuring Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch is a melodrama about a subject who has nothing more to give, but keeps on giving.
When the Munch Museum, spearheaded by Director Stein Olav Henrichsen, uses Munch as a kind of zombie influencer to sell cars, it has crossed a line.
Today, Friday 22 October, marks the grand opening of the new Munch Museum in Oslo.
The Munch Museum’s presentation of Edvard Munch’s paintings of Sultan Abdul Karem would have benefited from less didacticism.
The new Munch Museum will open in the heart of Oslo this autumn with Tracey Emin, Sandra Mujinga, and black metal band Satyricon all joining the party. Still, someone has to be a party pooper.
Magnus Andersen expands painting beyond the canvas in a total
installation that grins at contemporary fantasies of idyllic rural life.
Lee “Scratch” Perry’s entire persona and output comprise a complex Gesamtkunstwerk, a vast collage with roots dating back to 1958.
Protest and politics as seen through the work of generations of women artists in Poland.
“Racism and racial prejudice is impossible to understand without studying the normative white centre that gives rise to it”, says Jeff Werner, professor of art history at Stockholm University.
Goutam Ghosh’s exhibition at Standard (Oslo) points not only to what painting has been, but also to what it is becoming.
Martha Edelheit’s The Naked Truth: Works from the 60’s & 70’s at Larsen/Warner in Stockholm overflows with an irresistible sense of sensuality and liberation.
Philosopher Yuk Hui asks how art can transform technology.
Sianne Ngai explains why art needs to embrace error in a world that is wrong.
McKenzie Wark thinks we misunderstood the utopian.
Buffalo AKG Art Museum in upstate New York will open in 2022 and plans to boast the largest collection of Nordic art outside the region.
Lene Berg, next year’s official festival artist at Bergen Kunsthall, wants to tell the story of her late father, film director Arnljot Berg.
The idyllic setting of Momentum 11 threatens to drown out the biennial’s well-meaning gestures towards activism.
With the show Hummings, KØS Museum shows its ambitions to move its programme towards public space, but delivers unconvincing results.
‘In many ways, the project conducts fundamental research into how to make exhibitions.’ Nina Beier and Simon Dybbroe Møller give a glimpse of their micro-project space, AYE-AYE.
The waves in Kinga Bartis’s painting Egg timer do not move in vain.
In the future, the authority of museums will rest on their ability to explain why they have doubts. The discussion surrounding Kirchner and Nolde at the National Gallery of Denmark demonstrates why.
In Lytle Shaw’s New Grounds for Dutch Landscape the materialist turn is transformed into an art historical account of everyday ongoingness and the ground beneath our feet.
Dina El Kaisy Friemuth’s insistently minimalistic exhibition shows us what remains when we repatriate stolen artefacts.
Which were the best exhibitions on Nordic soil in 2021? Artist Stense Andrea Lind-Valdan lists her favourites.
NFTs demonstrate art’s license to make commodities out of almost anything.
The Munch Museum was recently the scene of a climate-activist performance stunt.
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