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Art History’s Best Mustaches: Edvard Munch’s Noir-ish “Self-Portrait With...
Today’s top-notch art historical mustache in recognition of the month-long male cancer awareness campaign Movember comes to us from the Norwegian master of modern malaise (and current auction...
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Art History’s Best Mustaches: All Movember’s Facial Hair in One...
As you may have noticed, we’ve spent much of the last month poring over art history’s best mustaches, like the would-be surgeons curiously leaning over the corpse in Rembrandt’s “The Anatomy Lesson of...
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Sale of Edvard Munch Portrait to Centre Pompidou Draws Controversy in Oslo
Even as Norway works hard to push admiration of one of its most famous cultural ambassadors beyond its own borders, a recent decision to sell a vintage portrait of Edvard Munch to the Centre Pompidou...
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Is This Scaredy Cat Actually Paying Homage to Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”?
Yesterday, while catching up on our weekend cat slideshow browsing, we paused on cat number 11 (above left) from Sunday’s 27-picture surprised cat slideshow in the Huffington Post, not only because...
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See Takashi Murakami Screaming With “The Scream” During His Visit to Oslo
On Friday, during a visit to Oslo — where his work is included in an exhibition at the Astrup Fearnley Museet — Takashi Murakami paid a visit to the Nasjonalmuseet, the National Museum of Norway,...
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Budget Woes Force Oslo’s Munch Museum To Lay Off 20 Percent of Its Staff
This may be a landmark year for Edvard Munch, who was born in 1863, making this his sesquicentennial, and his works may be doing sort of well at the world’s foremost auction houses, but the Munch...
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Feast Your Eyes on Food Artist Ida Skivenes’s Toasty Renderings of Modern...
The Norwegian artist Ida Skivenes makes amazing edible replicas of iconic masterpieces of modern art — from Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko (above) to Salvador Dalí and her countryman Edvard Munch —...
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Museums Go Screaming Mad for Munch as Artist’s 150th Birthday Approaches
While Edvard Munch may be best-known for his iconic and auction-record holding work “The Scream” — and its innumerable parodies — the sesquicentennial of the prolific artist’s birth has sparked a slew...
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Marina Abramovic’s “The Scream” Flashmob Shut Down by Oslo Police
Marina Abramovic’s most recent performance art piece and/or promotional event for the Marina Abramovic Institute’s Kickstarter campaign, a flashmob in an Oslo park where she invited the public to join...
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Edvard Munch Gets Posthumous Set Design Gig at British Theater
On September 19, the Rose Kingston Theatre in Surrey will open its production of Henrik Ibsen’s play “Ghosts,” featuring set designs by none other than Edvard Munch, the Art Newspaper reports. This...
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