The dapper daredevil who documented America’s skyline in the making
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Denmark's brilliant painter of light – Anna Ancher learnt from the artists who flocked to her parents' hotel in Skagen, and forged her own path as a painter of radiant interiors
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Two exhibitions in Norway and the UK bring together neglected treasures of printmaking from the Nordic region, including works by Edvard Munch
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Was this English queen a 'predatory' collector of beautiful things?
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In the mid-20th century, Britain and Iceland went to war. Sort of. All over the precious resource of cod.
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Was there a Norwegian island of New Zealand? Stewart Island was home to a significant proportion of Norwegian settlers and whalers.
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The icy glamour of Greta Garbo's doomed heroines is genuinely iconic – over a century after her first appearance, here's why Hollywood missed her so badly
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The Energia-Buran, as detailed by an eyewitness to the Soviet spaceplane before its destruction
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