Parallax Views, an exhibition at .NO gallery in New York, which opens Friday, explores the underpinnings of the terrorist bombing and shootings in Oslo and at Utøya on July 22nd 2011.
International curator Küan Jeff Baysa has invited several artists to display their works at the exhibition, which opens in Manhattan on January 6th. All the artists have resided in Norway, but none of them are Norwegian. Their works are "lyrical, metaphorical, even oblique ways of addressing the highly charged and prickly issues," according to a press release by .NO. Concepts explored in the exhibition include the homeland versus the adopted land, and issues of rejecting or retaining cultural roots with another cultural hegemony. Works focus on the second or third generation of immigrants, and ask questions like "what is cultural diversity within the Norwegian context? What are unspoken issues?" according to the curator. Parallax Views is on from January 6-29 at .NO, a non-profit gallery on the Lower East Side. (.NO press release) Julie Ryland
Statistics show that Norwegians' use of cultural venues and institutions shows a significant decline from 2008 to 2012.(Photo: The Oslo National Theatre)..
Norway's Queen Sonja this week opened the exhibition entitled “Munch|Warhol and the Multiple Image” in New York City. The exhibition brings together the works of two of the greatest printmakers of the 20th century.
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Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit will travel to Houston in May to celebrate 40 years of Norwegian participation at the annual Offshore Technology Conference.
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The Bergen Art Museum will re-open their Munch exhibition on May 4, after 10 years of extensive restoration of several damaged works of the famous Norwegian painter. ..
The exhibition "New Land, New Life: Norwegian Immigration in Minnesota 1825-1925" shows highlights from the Norwegian immigration to Minnesota, and is on through June 20, 2013.
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The official opening of the 150th anniversary of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch took place at the Oslo City Hall on Wednesday.
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The Statfjord field in the North Sea was Friday inaugurated as a cultural monument at the Norwegian Petroleum Museum in Stavanger by the Directorate of Cultural Heritage.
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Centre Pompidou in Paris wants to buy a self portrait of Edvard Munch - a photograph that he took of himself at his home at Ekely in Norway in 1930.
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The musical Isdronningen ("The Ice Queen") premiered at Bærum Kulturhus Thursday evening, and tells the story of Norway's most famous female skater.
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When Queen Sonja opened the Munch exhibition "The Modern Eye" on Tuesday, she did not try to hide that she dreams about the opening of a new Munch museum in Oslo.
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The new premises of the privately owned Astrup Fearnley museum for Modern Art on the Oslo waterfront was officially opened by Queen Sonja on Thursday.
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Astrup Fearnley Museet is a privately owned museum, which presents temporary exhibitions of international art. First opened in 1993, the museum has since established itself as an important institution for presentation of contemporary art.
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The Norwegian Museum of Science in Oslo has received the International Design and Communication Award (IDCA) 2012 in the category Best Exhibition Layout, for its exhibition Mind Gap.
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