The commissioning body’s decision to bypass an open call for next year’s edition of the Biennale has been met with mixed feelings by the local art community.
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70+ Artists Strike Finnish Museum Over Supporter’s Ties to Israeli Military
The artists say the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma must sever ties with Poju Zabludowicz, whose wealth comes in part from Israeli defense contracting.
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Child Who Lived 8,000 Years Ago May Have Been Buried With a Wolf
Archaeologists excavated the burial site in eastern Finland, shedding light on Stone Age funerary practices.
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A Body Horror Tale With an Avian Twist
Hanna Bergholm’s stunningly original debut film Hatching embraces the experience of female adolescence as the monster that it is, and then gives that monster literal wings.
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A Curator’s Work to Resist Erasure and Reconfigure Identities
A reflection on the tensions inherent to interpreting art and poetry in challenging political times.
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How Finland Helped Shape American Midcentury Modernism
When architect Eliel Saarinen moved to the US and designed Cranbrook, he brought his Finnish heritage with him.
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Finnish Government Refuses to Fund Guggenheim Helsinki
Political opposition in Finland could sabotage longstanding plans to build a Guggenheim outpost on the Helsinki waterfront.
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A Murder Mystery Set in a Finnish Art Museum
HELSINKI — “In the final days of a damp, misty November, the body of a young woman is found in the icy embrace of the waters off Kaivopuisto Park.”
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A Survey of New Finnish Paintings Transcends Stereotypes
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Dark Days, Bright Nights, an exhibition of recent Finnish paintings curated by Barbara O’Brien for the Kemper Museum, is a stirring reminder of how culturally under-represented that nation remains even in the age of digitally networked globalization.
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A Reason to Headbang: Finland Makes National Emojis
The country has developed more than 30 emojis that function as advertisements for all the things that make Finland unique.
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Capturing Interior and Outside Worlds in Just One Shot
Marja Pirilä has been fascinated with the camera obscura process since the 1980s, when she worked extensively with pinhole cameras and even built a few cabin-sized contraptions.
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Designing Safer Antlers for Finland’s Reindeers
Would this spooky reindeer that seems to have transported from some unearthly netherworld stop you in your tracks?
