White trash
People look towards the lens, yet it is as if they would prefer to retreat and retreat to the courtyard, to the outfield, to the family, to the drug, to the church, to sleep.
VAGINA! Vulva!
Vienna: Die Jubiläumsschau shows Egon Schiele's 100 year-old artist, where the explicit nude portraits of the woman still provoke.
National Library: It's as if the building has been waiting for this
The National Library recently opened an exhibition on Norwegian sci-fi. "Maybe more than ever we need a genre that can contain philosophical and difficult questions about our existence," writes author Hanne Ramsdal.
Stein Mehren – cultural radicals and romantic mystics
Stein Mehren is best known for his poems, but he also stands in a special position among Norwegian post-war secessionists: awake, contentious and with a keen look at current issues.
The Moon – The New Suburb of Earth
Future optimism goes hand in hand with a critical look at humanity – at the Henie Onstad Art Center.
An epic friendship
A new exhibition at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin shows the complicated relationship between the thinker Walter Benjamin and the poet Bertolt Brecht.
A contemporary diagnosis – without the ability to criticize?
ART: Is there no longer anything of revealing or distorting?
Realists Stanley Kubrick
He is a filmmaker who has meant a lot to many of us. In a world that is globalized and militarized, Kubrick is still relevant.
To shoot after Faust with a shotgun
There is a lot of light, sound and timely embrace of #metoo in We Must Talk About Faust. But less Faust.
The river as the life blood of the city
PHILIPPINES: A photo book shows us how the world looks to many. A garbage dump. A mockery of human dignity. A ruined ecosystem. Can the power of the photo assist us in the desire for change?
Nostalgic outsiders
Three female documentary photographers – Lisette Model, Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin – exhibit their contemporary photographs of the imperfections of marginalized and ordinary people.
Venice Biennial: What happens when man is no longer the center?
PHOTOGRAPHY: This year's Venice Art Biennale shows us a different world, more tangled, unsettling, weird and fragile at the same time. From each room, vibrant lines are drawn between disaster and collapse, colonialism and belonging, human and machine.
The explosive power of the snapshot
ABOUT THE PHOTO BOOK: An intense and multifaceted conversation in several layers about the photo book, which with its contextual premise heightens the snapshot.
Room for thoughts on Syria: art and culture in troubled times
Today, we are witnessing a fragmentation of the Syrian people whose voices are spread throughout the world. What happens then ...
Mjøsa: Place sense and carrier bag
ESSAY: The constant focus on work, bustle and productivity takes us away from a neighborhood of things – every day there are people who can feel that something is also breaking in them.
Drone Dilla
Civil society must take ownership of the drone technology, says Anders Eiebakke, current with the exhibition Drones coming!
The critical power of self-portrait
In the selfie era, the staged self-portrait functions as political activism.
Apocalypse and hope for the future
The Vienna Alphabet exhibition showcases Keith Haring's artistry, which is strongly influenced by his violent contemporary, where the baby represents the only, shining hope.
The fools in the streets of New York
Helen Levitt's exhibition shows how life in New York City's streets in the nineteenth century could be fun and fun – especially for the little ones.
Intimate portrait of an iconic photographer
The name Robert Mapplethorpe probably gets most people thinking about New York's bohemian life of the 1970 century, controversies and his homoerotic BDSM photographs that upset the public.
The community-breaking project
AVANTGARDE: Mikkel Bolt frames the avant-garde project as distinct from the continuous aesthetic form-breaking of artistic modernism.
Jazz – Anarchy Music?
No conductor. No organizer. No composer. No boss. No archos. So anarchy. At the big festivals this summer, the common jazz language was exchanged.
The consequences of war
This week, the exhibition The Shadow of War ends at the Artists' House and thus also the artist Thomas Kvam's digital monitoring of the image that forms the basis of his work in the exhibition. We talked to him.