Sverre Følstad

ARCHITECTURE: o Leading figures in the campaign to preserve the Y-block have now published a 431-page book of commitment, and often anger. The international reaction to Norway's demolition drive prompted much reflection at the time.

PHOTO: There are many associations that arise in the encounter with Kjell Karlsen's photographs: some stanzas of a poem, fragments of a film scene, popular culture, fine culture, dreams and fantasies. At the same time, the images give a sense of a post-apocalyptic dystopia, where everything familiar has disappeared.

ART: How can art and craft be understood as different. In the publication with Aby Warburg's texts, we learn that matters that lie outside the work being studied must be emphasized in order to understand it. Like the release with Lina Bo Bardi, architecture is almost incomprehensible without knowing the context within which it appears.

PHOTO ART: Is it through its diversity that the world emerges? The game of life takes place behind some masks, which some wear, others take off. The works in the Tangen collection were made by Nordic artists throughout the 1900th century, with a main emphasis from 1930 to 1960. And who is Tangen, besides being an asset manager? One should not forget that he wrote a thesis on Rolf Nesch (at the Courtauld Institute in London).

PHOTO ART: The lonely person is a prerequisite for the expressive world artist who came to the fore with Edvard Munch in the 1890s. A new biography is now available: According to de Figueiredo, the frivolous reality the bohemians in Kristiania clamored for in the 1880s came to fruition in 1890s Berlin, where Munch was part of a milieu that had conversations about "naturalism and socialism, decadence and Darwinism and psychology – as well as an ever-so-small dose of Satanism”.

PHOTO ART: The idea of ​​good form is modernist brainwashing. Already from the Renaissance it was established that beauty belonged to the female body. But who painted a natural primordial state where lust and desire were each in their own way equally unthinkable?

DARKNESS: These are the broad lines that are being fought over: the fight against conformity. The National Library in Oslo's exhibition about Norwegian black metal is called Dårlig steving

WOMEN: Art done by men is simply given more attention: in collections, in exhibition programs, in art literature, in the art market. But what about the large number of female artists over the past 500 years?

ROM Alongside our large-scale visual culture, Iris Maria Tusa has a rare photography book about Roma people – here we see how childhood shapes us, and later we shape our image of childhood.