Art
The Story of Norway’s Multiple July 22 Memorials
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.
Norway
News
Cooper Hewitt Acquires Historic Textile Designed for UN Security Council
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.
Art
An Art Festival on Norway’s Arctic Islands Considers How Humans Are Changing Them
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.
Art
Peter Zumthor's Minimalist Museum for Zinc Mining Takes Shape in Norway
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.
News
Norway Unveils Landscape-Inspired Passports and ID Cards
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 ca
News
Norway's Currency Goes Abstract
Ah, Norway. Land of universal health care, widespread wealth, true democracy, and excellent design. In keeping with that last one, the country's central bank unveiled plans this week for some of the coolest currency we've seen in a long time.
Books
Is Norway an Artist Book Paradise?
Norway, the enigmatic teardrop of a nation that crowns the Scandinavian peninsula, could be considered heaven or hell depending on whom you ask.
Art
Sculpting a Nordic Landscape
BODØ, Norway — Artscape Nordland (Skulpturlandskap Nordland), an opus of site-specific sculpture in northern Norway, includes 35 works scattered throughout Nordland county (and one in Troms), made by international artists hailing from 18 countries.
Art
Two Artists Are Building a Human Zoo in Norway
Tomorrow, to mark the 200th anniversary of Norway's constitution, two artists will open a human zoo in Oslo. "European Attraction Limited," as the project is called, is actually a re-creation of a racist human zoo that Norway hosted in 1914, when the country celebrated the centennial of its constitu
Performance
A Visual Concert of Gestures
Audience members for Tori Wrånes’s "Yes Nix" performance had to sidestep the artist, who was lying on the floor at the entrance to SIR Stage 37, as they walked in. Her feet were tied in rope, which was strung up to a running track in the ceiling. It was the most confrontational part of the 30-some-m
News
Artist Denied Right to Paint in Prison
Yesterday, artist Odd Nerdrum lost his appeal in Norwegian courts this week and, in a strange twist of fate, he will receive an even longer jail sentence than the one he was appealing.
Opinion
Museums Get Creative with Their Permanent Collections
Museums are turning more, and with more creativity, to their own permanent collections. Is necessity the mother of invention once again, or is there a real interest among museums to breathe new life into their own holdings? (Or both?) Either way, the public is reaping the benefits. Today viewers hav