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After a couple of turbulent years, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has a new rector: Lars Bent Petersen.
out of the mixture of mistrust and fascination that characterises the Danish mainstream outlook on art. Several front-page stories, at times even entire sections of newspapers, have been dedicated to

Munch as editorial cartoonist

The successful travelling exhibition The Modern Eye was opened at the Munch museum last week. The Norwegian version of the exhibition includes a little-known newspaper vignette based on The Scream.
Front page vignette for Social-Demokraten, 1898. Thorolf Holmboe (torch) and Edvard Munch (screaming face). The New York crowds have hardly begun lining up to view Petter Olsen’s old

A New Review by Tommy Olsson

Once the last page has been read it is difficult to shake the feeling that Bjarne Melgaard’s novel is actually a piece of quite good late modernist prose.
have already seen examples of that. But it is also witty enough to make old perverts like me chuckle. And when the final page has been read it is difficult

Kunstnere annoncerer

– Et ikke-formidlende formidlingsprojekt, sådan beskriver Jacob Fabricius projektet 24 advertisements, som lanceres på New York Art Book Fair i dag.
med tråde til Douglas Huebler, Adrian Piper og andre. Ind imellem teksterne er der tomme røde sider – potentielle annoncesider til fremtidige annoncører. Priserne (full page, half page, quarter page

Vil skape et kulturelt myldrehus

Anne Hilde Neset er ny direktør på Kunstnernes Hus. Hun ønsker å bryte ned skillelinjene mellom kunstsjangrene.
organisasjonen Ny Musikk siden 2011. Der sto hun bak festivalene Off The Page og Only Connect. Hun var en av redaktørene i musikktidsskriftet The Wire i 16 år, og var

Maria Lind Goes North

“You don't have to be a crowd-pleaser, what is relevant and good attracts an audience,” says the new director of Konstmuseet i Norr in the arctic city Kiruna.
our king Carl XVI Gustaf: “Let’s turn the page.” Let’s move on and look forward. iida-ssi (Iida Jonsson & Ssi saarinen), Vanshing Points: Folding a View, 2023. Installation view, Konstmuseet i Norr. Photo:

From a Distance All Poems Look the Same

In view of the radical distribution plans, The Word’s Head project at the Oslo Pilot project space demonstrates a surprisingly conservative view of poetry.
the likelihood of any such optimum encounters between poem and reader decreases dramatically when the poem is lifted off of the book page and out into the public space. This

Aesthetics of Concern

Lund Konsthall’s attempt to give political art a new edge succumbs to magisterial claims.
page of the catalogue, Director Åsa Nacking states that the presentation is about “showing how power structures, racism and nationalism have been established and how they still live on in

Into the Friction

An agitational aesthetic demanding the redistribution of power and responsibility characterised the art field of the 2010s.
in 2017 when the Danish newspaper Information cleared its front page to convey his frustrations with how “the old struggle for form, composition, and originality” has been replaced by a

Youth, I Pick You Like a Flower

In Maria Pasenau’s first photobook, mediation is not an object inserted between us and social reality, but the fundamental premise of that reality.
situation where reproductive media have become necessary preconditions for friendships and art experiences alike. Whit Kind Regrets Pasenau is quite a brick of a book, with each page covered by

Gilles Deleuze’s Unpublished Theory of Painting

France celebrates as the philosopher’s fabled lectures are finally committed to print.
early October, it was met with a full front page and two spreads in the newspaper Libération. Le Monde quickly followed with a full page, and Radio France devoted several programmes to it.

Dope Money

Det Kosmiske Hierarki takes Freetown Christiania’s local currency outside the commune. The result is also a song of freedom.
pictures, photographs of all the coins, one page per coin, front and back. At the back of the catalogue we find the only text, a record providing sober descriptions of

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