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Criticism in Finland Over Country’s Selection Process for the Venice Biennale

Avatar photo by Avedis Hadjian August 28, 2023August 31, 2023

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

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie December 1, 2022December 2, 2022

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

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu November 8, 2022November 8, 2022

Archaeologists excavated the burial site in eastern Finland, shedding light on Stone Age funerary practices.

Posted inFilm

A Body Horror Tale With an Avian Twist

by Eileen G’Sell May 11, 2022May 12, 2022

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

Avatar photo by Alessandro Facente February 7, 2019September 17, 2020

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

by Janet Tyson July 6, 2017July 5, 2017

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

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne September 9, 2016

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

by Luke Spencer May 16, 2016May 16, 2016

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

by Thomas Bey William Bailey January 19, 2016January 22, 2016

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

by Laura C. Mallonee November 5, 2015

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

by Laura C. Mallonee April 20, 2015April 20, 2015

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

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 19, 2014February 19, 2014

Would this spooky reindeer that seems to have transported from some unearthly netherworld stop you in your tracks?

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