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The story of the female artists

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?

The black metal movement

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

Camille, Hannah, Lisa, Pauline and Flora

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?

A collective memory of growing up

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.

Gypsy therapy

ROM : Photographer Harald Medbøe's method lies between subject and lens.