Debate has erupted in Denmark over the fate of a mermaid statue that is to be removed from public view after being decried as “ugly and pornographic”
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Jeff Carlisle - Another Night at the Warp Core Cafe (2018)
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After nine years scurrying in the shadows, the two-person Swedish street art collective known as Anonymouse has finally stepped out of the dark and into a museum exhibition
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Susan Herbert - Cat Paintings
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We took the back off a Michelangelo and it took seven months | Saving Michelangelo’s Epifania cartoon
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Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today?
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Troupe of world-class sand sculptors have descended on Hundested in Denmark, as the town prepares to open its 14th annual sand sculpture festival
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The $5M art festival that ends in flames
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Matias Faldbakken unveils design for Norwegian national memorial to 2011 attacks – twelve-metre high mosaic will show the reflection of a wading bird native to Utøya island
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Tone Glow 006: Eric Andersen, Crying Places
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Lupo Sol - Works on paper
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Klara Kristalova, Benjamin Orlow and Tori Wrånes will represent the Nordic Pavilion at the upcoming Venice Biennale
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Piglets will be left to starve in a controversial art exhibit in Denmark – Marco Evaristti aims to raise awareness of the suffering caused by modern pig production
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LA races to save a vital piece of history – Ernest A. Batchelder tiles found amid wildfire ash
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What artist, regardless of medium, did the most to progress their field?
Many times people credited with creating a genre or style simply placed the final brick, standing on the shoulders of giants. But who had the most profound impact through both luck and effort? I’m...
Many times people credited with creating a genre or style simply placed the final brick, standing on the shoulders of giants. But who had the most profound impact through both luck and effort?
I’m interested in any art form - theater, painting, film making, video games, etc.
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Housed in a renovated Art Nouveau post office building in Trondheim, PoMo – which sees improving gender representation in art as a key mission – is now open
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Six Nordic paintings that can help us rethink winter – sublime landscapes of the frozen North from the turn of the 20th Century offer us a way into resilience
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Carl Bloch's lost masterpiece finds fame again in Athens – work that made its Danish creator a superstar then mysteriously disappeared is mesmerising art lovers once more
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Rediscovered Edvard Munch painting will be unveiled at London's National Portrait Gallery in March, as part of a major exhibition of the Norwegian master's portraits
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In his mind's eye, Rembrandt was always headed toward Japan
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Groundbreaking exhibition on Tove Jansson's public art opens in Helsinki – focuses on the artist and writer's lesser-known mural work
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French artist Guillaume Legros AKA Saype uses a biodegradable paint he invented himself to create gigantic graffiti on grassy fields, snowy mountainsides, and sandy beaches
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AI artist says he’s losing money from people stealing his work
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Trondheim set to welcome PoMo museum in 2025 – minimum of 60% of its acquisition budget to women artists to tackle gender inequality in museum collections at large
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Following Norway’s national painter through a landscape of mountains and fjords – Harald Sohlberg is celebrated within his native country and almost unknown outside it
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Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson is set to take over some of the world's biggest public spaces in his most impressive installation piece yet
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Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi's paintings had a recurring mysterious woman with her back turned – here, through letters and photos, her sadness-tinged story is revealed
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Icelandic fishing giant Samherji sues art student for spoofing corporate website – potentially chilling effect on artists engaging critically with large corporations
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Jan Hakon Erichsen explains how he became an Instagram star by smashing vegetables, popping balloons – and nearly killing himself with a knife sculpture
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10+ things to know about The Great Wave
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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving
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Stavanger's pristine white facades create a timeless, quaint atmosphere. Yet, amidst this traditional setting, a vibrant street art scene has emerged.
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This store only sells fake food
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Artist win: AI lawsuit advances
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The art of the cutaway drawing
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Artists, activism and AIDS
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Pål Enger, talented Norwegian soccer player turned celebrity art thief who pulled off the sensational 1994 heist of Edvard Munch's famed “The Scream”, has died
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Band Saw Sculptor [1964]
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Sámi artist Tomas Colbengtson is the latest recipient of The Queen Sonja Print Award, the world's most important prize for printmaking
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PIPE DREAM | Trailer
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The Goya paintings you aren't supposed to look at
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The 2,000 year-old city of mosaics
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What birdwatching in the Garden of Earthly Delights can teach us
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Navajo Quilt Project co-founder wins national arts fellowship
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Explore Edvard Munch's masterpiece “The Scream,” and find out why this artwork became one of the world's most famous paintings | Noah Charney
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What I did when my art got stolen (I got help from lawyers and posted on social media)
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The 1,200 year maths mistake
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A decades-long forgery scheme ensnared Canada’s most famous Indigenous artist, a rock musician turned sleuth and several top museums. Here’s how investigators unraveled the incredible scam.
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Faroe tunnel has opened up more than 150m below the Atlantic, boasting a six-mile-long art installation complete with its own spectral soundtrack picked up by car radio
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Adastra: The best furry visual novel
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