Art Review
Edvard Munch Was a Magician of Light
A show at London’s National Portrait Gallery reveals the artist’s astonishing technical skills, but the wall texts are laugh-out-loud amusing at best and art historically dangerous at worst.
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News
Under Munch's Risqué Madonna Is a More Subdued Version, Researchers Find
The National Museum of Norway announced the discovery of underdrawings hidden beneath the surface of their Edvard Munch painting, "Madonna."
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Hurt by Public Response to “The Scream,” Munch Inscribed Hidden “Madman” Message
The curious inscription has puzzled art historians for decades, some of whom speculated it was an act of vandalism.
Art
The Melancholy Marriage of Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch
What do Emin and Munch have in common other than a burning desire to embrace, and be defined by, the miseries of life?
In Brief
Please Stop Breathing on Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”
Scientists say "The Scream" is fading due to human breath. With museums around the world closed, the painting is getting some much needed social distance.
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Artists Help Us to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Death and Healing
From Albrecht Dürer to LaToya Ruby Frazier, artists have for centuries depicted and reflected on health and illness.
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The Limits of Edvard Munch's Radicalism
What remains unspoken in the British Museum's Love and Angst is the ways Munch's dark emotions frequently came to target the women in his life.
Books
Knausgaard Finds a Soulmate in Edvard Munch
Knausgaard's monomaniacal excavation of the self and soul probably finds its closest counterpart in the work of Munch, his countryman.
News
7,600 Edvard Munch Drawings Now Available to Discover Online
The Munch Museum in Oslo digitized not only its own holdings of Munch's works on paper, but also those from other museums and private collections.
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Edvard Munch’s Little-Known, Highly Personal Photography
Munch's photographs exhibit an unfinished playfulness with technical manipulation and subject matter that is not as readily seen in his more well-known work.
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Edvard Munch’s World Without Pity
Munch absorbed avant-garde styles but never became an avant-garde artist.
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Why Edvard Munch Began Painting Portraits of the Soul
An exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art illustrates how, over time, Munch moved away from observational painting toward something more symbolic and emotional.