Tag: art
‘The Mother’ lands next to MUNCH
A new statue called Moren (The Mother) has been attracting attention all week. Not all of it good, but artist Tracey Emin couldn't care...
National Museum set to finally reopen
Norway's new consolidated National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design will finally open its doors on June 11, 2022, after repeated delays and snafus....
Billionaire art patron laid to rest
Tributes have been rolling in for weeks after Hans Rasmus Astrup, the shipping billionaire best known for being one of the world's leading art...
National Museum bought Gude painting
Norway's National Museum has emerged as the buyer of a rare and spectacular landscape painting by Norwegian artist Hans Fredrik Gude. The price set...
‘Sinnataggen’ back in place
Norway's cherished statue of an angry little boy called "Sinnataggen" is back in its place in the Vigelands Park section of Oslo's Frogner Park....
Famed sculpture vandalized again
Someone has tried once again to saw through the ankle of Norway's iconic bronze sculpture of an angry little boy in Oslo's Frogner Park....
‘Let’s Twist again,’ like this summer
They've been lining up all summer, just to get inside Norway's newest spectacular attraction: "The Twist" gallery at the Kistefos sculpture park for contemporary...
Warm receptions at Kistefos’ opening
PHOTO FEATURE: The weather was unusually warm on Sunday when Norwegian industrialist and philanthropist Christen Sveaas could finally welcome a government minister in charge...
Foreign minister returned stolen Buddha
Foreign Minister Børge Brende traveled to Myanmar (Burma) this week, where he delivered a 200-year-old Buddha sculpture believed to have been stolen from the...
The Queen’s art raises a flap
Art critics and artists themselves are questioning why the Art Museums of Bergen (KODE) decided to mount an exhibition of Queen Sonja's art in the soon-to-reopen KODE...
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