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.
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.
Theater as a necessity
In order to defy the political and social conditions in which they live without falling into vulgarities and counterfeiting, the theater has become indispensable in Gaza.
The escape from the common problems
Recently deceased Zygmunt Bauman is known for his grim social diagnoses. Where is the medicine?
A rhizomatic world
The ZKM Center for Arts and Media in Karlsruhe will create a greater understanding of the different expressions of media art from a historical perspective.
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.
An alternative public
The Chto Delat collective crosses the boundary between theater and academia, between aristocracy and proletariat, between you and me – and shows in practice that the absurd staged is the reality for many Russians.
Picture of the week 27-05-2015
The international art project "Ramallah – Trondheim Series" discusses photography, gender and cultural understanding through lectures, workshops, football exchange and an exhibition with various photographic series ....
Pussy Riot: "We're All Pioneers"
Censorship can be tricky, but it can also give the art an unintended explosive power.
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?
A desire for materiality
PHOTOGRAPH: Can a photo hit us? Or can it show limitations imposed on the individual by familial and societal expectations?
Brilliant on earth
Knight's review and criticism of Munch's art are both hysterically funny, well-written and in many ways apt. But historical art criticism can have dubious value when it is as wrong as this one.
First and foremost children
The exhibition Primarily the children of the photographer Rebacca Jafari is on display at Gallery F15, Jeløya, Moss, 3. – 17. April.
Idleness is the root of all art
The primal power can be found in amateur orchestras, rhymesmiths and trivial glossy pictures, Asger Jorn believed. A colorful explosive is finally available in Norwegian.
Drone Dilla
Civil society must take ownership of the drone technology, says Anders Eiebakke, current with the exhibition Drones coming!
Picture of the week 03-06-2015
"The Bloodlands is the area of Europe that extends from Lithuania in the north to Ukraine in the south, and where decades of conflict have caused ...
Surrealistic self-making
Interview: The Akademie der Künste archive in Berlin recently opened with an exhibition of German Ginka Steinwachs' installations. On that occasion, Ny Tid had a conversation with the surrealist poet.
The working class is desperately trying to defend its dignity
French sociologist Didier Eribon's book on growing up as a gay working class child became a bestseller in Germany last year. Now Return to Reims has been staged by theater director Thomas Ostermeier.
Movies from the East
Horror, anime, samurai film, experiment, costume drama, monster movie and softcore – all Japanese films are in tension between east and west.
The truth of the painting: Reunion with van Gogh
Let me start with a few complaints: Visual arts are not doing well in our time. One expression of this is the growing populism we see ...
Post-Francoic stress syndrome
Nobel laureate Javier Marías writes strongly about Spain in the years following Franco.
Attempt to be alive
What happens to the art of a time without permanence, where everyone is left to a floating, infinite space?
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.