Art Review
The American Midwest as Bastion for New Nordic Tradition
These contemporary interpretations acknowledge artistic roots while building new forms, and each work opens up portals into other lineages.
Scandinavia House
Art
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.
Art
Four Uncompromising Finnish Women Artists
There are no portraits of men or depictions of happy couples in this exhibition at Scandinavia House.
Art
At Home with Vilhelm Hammershøi
The room is quiet. We stand on the fringes, in the shadows, divided from the softly luminous space that’s momentarily brought into the light.
Books
Munch and Warhol: An Unlikely Pair
Edvard Munch, tortured and brooding; Andy Warhol, detached and impenetrably cool. The two artists might not have gotten along well as studio mates, but as for aficionados of artistic repetition, they have a definite kinship.