Icelandic fishing giant Samherji sues art student for spoofing corporate website – potentially chilling effect on artists engaging critically with large corporations Article 1036 words 20 votes
Jan Hakon Erichsen explains how he became an Instagram star by smashing vegetables, popping balloons – and nearly killing himself with a knife sculpture art.performance art.contemporary Article 1236 words 5 votes
Based on a Jane Fallon novel and directed by Guy Unsworth, a new show powered by Swedish pop duo Roxette opens in Malmö – Per Gessle reflects on their arrival at the opera theatre Article 1302 words 4 votes
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 art.installation Article 1290 words 10 votes
Rubens & Women review – ‘Naked breasts moved him religiously’ art.fine painting Article 910 words 4 votes
Danish artist who submitted empty frames as artwork told to repay funding art.conceptual Article 317 words 23 votes
Tove Jansson's unseen Moomin sketches to go on show in Paris – exhibition focuses on life and career of brave and uncompromising Finnish artist and writer art Article 570 words 8 votes
Why has Hilma af Klint, an overlooked pioneer been paired with Piet Mondrian, a jazz-mad Dutchman rebelling against his dad's religion? The answer lies in the spirit world art.abstract painting Article 1478 words, published Apr 17 2023 6 votes
Monumental mirror to the sky is to be created in a wildly beautiful but little visited stretch of coastline – Olafur Eliasson's first permanent outdoor artwork in the UK art.installation Article 835 words 3 votes
How Edvard Munch's friend Thomas Olsen hid the masterpiece 'Dance on the Beach' in a remote barn in the Norwegian forest to foil the Nazis art painting Article 864 words 4 votes
Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for seventy-five years painting art.abstract Article 540 words 14 votes
Microphones dropped into ocean off Greenland to record melting icebergs – artist Siobhán McDonald will turn recordings into an acoustic installation art.installation Article 591 words, published Oct 19 2022 5 votes
Brad Pitt has unveiled his sculptures in a lakeside art museum in Finland alongside Australian musician Nick Cave and British sculptor Thomas Houseago art Article 412 words 6 votes
Ukrainian exhibition that was left stranded in a gallery in Denmark, unable to return to Kyiv when Russia invaded, has reopened after being adopted by the EU art Article 645 words 5 votes
Oslo's vast National Museum opens with tapestry of 400 reindeer skulls – the ‘grey box’ has been eight years and £500m in the making art.installation painting Article 848 words 9 votes
Norway's £500m National Museum to open after eight-year wait – director apologises for delays that have kept Munch's The Scream out of public view art painting Article 787 words 7 votes
From the 1910s to the 1930s, John Alinder portrayed the local people of rural Sweden, the landscape around them and their way of life photography Article 28 words, published Aug 4 2021 12 votes
World's tallest sandcastle has been completed in Denmark, towering more than twenty metres high and comprising nearly 5,000 tonnes of sand art.installation Article 276 words 9 votes
Helsinki Photo Festival – Fifty-eight international and Nordic photographers displayed in venues across the city; the overall theme for the festival is trust photography Article 49 words 5 votes
The statue of the Little Mermaid in the entrance to Copenhagen harbour has been daubed with the words “racist fish” Article 333 words 8 votes
Banksy mural stolen from Bataclan concert hall in Paris found by police in a farmhouse in Italy art.street Article 409 words 5 votes
Human breath taking its toll on The Scream, say scientists – they have discovered Edvard Munch accidentally used an impure tube of cadmium yellow art painting Article 753 words 7 votes
Twelve of the best Shakespeare productions to stream theatre Article 806 words, published Apr 22 2020 4 votes
Gloomy Van Gogh self-portrait in Oslo gallery confirmed authentic – only known painting by Dutch master while he had psychosis is unmistakably his work art painting Article 441 words 9 votes
Danish artist Tal R seeks to stop his work being cut up to make watches art Article 546 words 8 votes
Olafur Eliasson returns to Tate Modern with tonne of white Lego – retrospective investigates how we respond to nature art.installation Article 642 words 4 votes
Danish capital is spirited and busy but there are nooks of tranquillity, says urban sketcher João Albergaria Article 360 words, published Jul 5 2019 4 votes
Last year, a museum in France dedicated to the work of Étienne Terrus discovered that over half of its collection was fake. Phil Hoad spent nine months investigating how it happened. art painting Article 3642 words, published Jun 15 2019 9 votes
The lost Louvre of Uzbekistan: The museum that hid art banned by Stalin art Article 1298 words 8 votes
A newly-discovered note may finally prove that the much-disputed portrait of young Jane Austen is, in fact, the novelist herself art.fine painting literature Article 1069 words 5 votes
Only Michelangelo made abdomens – and wonky toes – like these art.fine Article 600 words, published Nov 15 2018 6 votes