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Office for Contemporary Art Norway Presents “The Sámi Pavilion” at the Venice Biennale

by Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) May 3, 2022May 3, 2022

In a historic first, artists Pauliina Feodoroff, Máret Ánne Sara, and Anders Sunna transformed the Nordic Pavilion into a celebration of the art and sovereignty of the Indigenous Sámi people.

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Under Munch’s Risqué Madonna Is a More Subdued Version, Researchers Find

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 7, 2021October 8, 2021

The National Museum of Norway announced the discovery of underdrawings hidden beneath the surface of their Edvard Munch painting, “Madonna.”

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Please Stop Breathing on Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”

by Hakim Bishara May 19, 2020

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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Norway Will Demolish Building Famous for Its Picasso Murals

by Ilana Novick February 27, 2020March 2, 2020

While the government promises to preserve the Picasso murals to be utilized in a new building, preservationists are unmoved.

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A 1,000-Year-Old Viking Ship Burial Was Discovered Underneath a Norwegian Farm

by Hakim Bishara December 6, 2019December 10, 2019

The ship, which dates back to the Viking Period or the earlier Merovingian period, was found with the help of a high-resolution, ground-penetrating georadar.

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A Symposium for Sea Kelp

by Mark Sheerin October 3, 2019October 8, 2019

At Norway’s Lofoten International Art Festival, seaweed took center stage as subject and material for artists and researchers as part of their “Kelp Congress.” 

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Politicians Pull the Plug on Bjarne Melgaard’s Proposed ‘House to Die In’

by Zachary Small August 28, 2018

Politicians have feared that the bad-boy artist’s dramatic architecture would disrupt the historic scenery that once inspired the work of Norway’s most-famous painter, Edvard Munch.

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The Story of Norway’s Multiple July 22 Memorials

by Wendy Vogel November 21, 2016November 21, 2016

Jonas Dahlberg’s “Memory Wound” has been in the international spotlight, but two other memorials commemorate Anders Behring Breivik’s 2011 massacre in different, subtler ways.

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Cooper Hewitt Acquires Historic Textile Designed for UN Security Council

by Allison Meier October 28, 2015October 29, 2015

With the world still reeling from World War II, a Norwegian architect was tasked with designing one of the most important places of international peace and negotiation.

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An Art Festival on Norway’s Arctic Islands Considers How Humans Are Changing Them

by Karen Gardiner September 23, 2015September 22, 2015

SVOLVÆR, Norway — “Lofoten is at a tipping point,” a local artist told me the night I arrived on the Norwegian archipelago for the opening weekend of the 2015 Lofoten International Art Festival.

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Peter Zumthor’s Minimalist Museum for Zinc Mining Takes Shape in Norway

by Allison Meier February 17, 2015February 18, 2015

Set to open in the summer of 2016, a sleek museum designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for a Norwegian zinc mine has been over a decade in the making, although parts of the attraction are already in place.

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Norway Unveils Landscape-Inspired Passports and ID Cards

by Laura C. Mallonee November 17, 2014November 17, 2014

Norwegians will soon have a wonderful reason to renew their passports. Just weeks after Norway’s central bank revealed its new, abstract currency, the National Police Directorate (NPD) announced that Neue Design Studio has won a competition to reimagine the country’s travel documents and identity cards.

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