Picture of the Week 17-06-2015
"Willy Bangsund is a local legend and wrestling coach in Sør-Varanger, who many in the local community believe should have long ago received a medal for the best peace work in ...
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.
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 ....
The community-breaking project
AVANTGARDE: Mikkel Bolt frames the avant-garde project as distinct from the continuous aesthetic form-breaking of artistic modernism.
"Republican is the new cool"
In a stunt just before the US election, a right-wing populist writer staged himself as a punk and performance artist. This hijacking also got artists and hipsters to vote for Donald Trump.
Media is a main channel for distorted reality
Sylvi Listhaug was never made with a cross in AFK's street artwork in Bergen, as presented on TV 2 the 6. April. Where exactly is the journalist's press ethical responsibility?
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.
Artificial fertilized art
Kva grew up desirous of Norway's largest industrial adventure, asks artists who exhibit in Grenland in May.
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.
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.
What we don't do in our community
There are some things that are not allowed in our society. For example, it is not allowed to scream. Anja Breien gives us films that theme what we want and what we can.
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.
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.
A desire for materiality
PHOTOGRAPH: Can a photo hit us? Or can it show limitations imposed on the individual by familial and societal expectations?
In the bottom form
Some of the best works in art history have been created by artists who have been to institutions. Judith Scott was such an artist.
Explosive and jargon-heavy about contemporary art
The metamorphoses of contemporary art are perhaps too interesting.
When art opens eyes
The experience of the dynamics of contemporary art festival – the interaction between cultural and political statements and my physical and mental movement through it – remains as the most thought provoking.
«Portrait with cigarette»
In the work of portraying Jens Bjørneboe, I started with a good deal of research before I started painting.
A Nietzschean art history driven by historical forces
Aby Warburg's understanding of images has left traces. He anticipated the montage concept of Russian filmmakers, and has inspired writers and art historians. Recently, a lecture was given about him in Oslo.
Munch, decadence – and Jæger
PHOTO ART: Edvard Munch described man's basic existential conditions: loneliness, fusion fantasies and an ecstasy that ends in vampirism and screams. But was Hans Jæger the source of inspiration for "Scream"? This essay looks at both love entanglements, naturalism and decadence – from Kristiania and Berlin.
A moving reunion with van Gogh
In a post in the previous issue of Ny Tid, Tore Kierulf Næss makes sure that the visual arts have poor conditions nowadays. The reason for ...
Mathematical art
In the art market, originality and peculiarity is an artist's foremost capital. But what happens when an algorithm can calculate these properties better than the artist itself?
Can political theater change Gaza?
Political theater is booming in Gaza, which is thirsty for anything that can contribute to change.
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.