Researchers have discovered that there’s something not quite right with Norway's finest Baroque art from the 17th century For a long time, the wrong person has been given the credit for much of the art.
Male artists dominate galleries and museums And it doesn’t look like this will change anytime soon, a survey shows.
What would a Norwegian version of Bridgerton look like? Norway stands out in Europe as a country where the nobility was almost insignificant, and in 1814 noble titles were forbidden. Still, in some circles in the capital, women dressed like their British trendsetter counterparts.
Scientists have determined what damaged Edvard Munch's "The Scream" Why has the lively yellow paint on Edvard Munch's 1910 painting The Scream faded and flaked off? A new study lays the blame on moisture. Chemists from several countries have conducted experiments that have helped them come up with the answer.
Prostitution in old Oslo Prostitution was illegal in Norway at the end of the 1800s but allowed in Oslo as long as the women submitted themselves to mandatory medical scrutiny. A new exhibition documents the lives of these women.
Politics blend with art in modern protest on old chinese platter New and old, politics and art meet when potter Paul Scott states his protest against the arrest of Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei.
The mysterious stone Madonna of the North Saved from mould and darkness, she’s a source of mysteries – Norway’s one and only painted stone Madonna from the Middle Ages.
Stone Age cartoons More than 1,000 rock carvings abound on Kanozero Island in Northern Russia. One of them beats The Flintstones by several millennia.
Legacy of a dexterous northerner Tromsø University Museum has a rocking chair of unknown origin, which demonstrates the handicraft of ordinary people.
Old ship art examined Curator Anne Tove Austbø welcomes assistance in interpreting a puzzling rudder ornament.