02/17/2007. OSLO, NORWAY.- In August 2007 the director of Statens Museum for Kunst, Allis Helleland, will become the new director of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo. The National Museum is facing important tasks, including a s...

04/24/2007. OSLO, NORWAY.- A new and exciting art event is taking place between the 3rd -13th of May in Oslo, the capital of Norway. Oslo Open 2007 invites to a ten days long spring-adventure filled with amazing happenings and fantastic surroundings. 4...

07/16/2007. NEW YORK.- Barry Friedman Ltd. will inaugurate its new Chelsea gallery with an exhibition of paintings by Anne-Karin Furunes on view September 19 – November 10, 2007. The exhibition of paintings from the last five years marks Furunes...

04/13/2010. MEXICO CITY.- Almost 50 recordings of indigenous traditional music interpreted by Huichol and Tarahumara people between 1890 and 1898 were donated by the Government of Norway to the National Insti...

01/21/2014. Most books published in Norway before 2001 are going online for free thanks to an initiative that may have found the formula to reconcile authors with the web. At a time when the publishing world is torn over its relationship to the Internet -- wh...

11/19/2014. This autumn, the National Gallery is holding the first-ever UK exhibition focused on the paintings of Peder Balke. Largely forgotten for more than a century, this Norwegian artist was ah...

12/15/2014. A copy of a 1927 Walt Disney cartoon which was thought to be lost has been found in northern Norway, the country's National Library said Thursday. The film -- an almost complete version of "Empty Socks", the first Christmas film by the US entertai...

02/04/2016. Dulwich Picture Gallery will present the first UK exhibition of paintings and prints by Nikolai Astrup (1880-1928), one of Norway’s finest twentieth-century artists. Along wit...

07/02/2016. With his designs for Skansen Restaurant, Ekeberg Restaurant and the Horn Building, the architect Lars Backer brought the International Style in architecture to Norway. Many people had felt that a new era was imminent, and now it had arrived. The e...

08/01/2016. The Whitney Museum of American Art announced the latest work in a series of public art installations by key American artists on the facade of 95 Horatio Street, across from the Museum’s buildi...

05/30/2017. The National Library of Norway said Monday it would digitise literature from Nigeria following a seemingly unprecedented agreement which organisers hope will lead to an "African digital library". In the northern Norwegian town of Mo i Rana, at the...

09/07/2017. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art will present for the first time an exhibition focused on the leading figures behind the advent of Norwegian landscape painting in the 19th century: Johan Chri...

08/30/2019. Today four architecture projects were awarded the A.C. Houen Fund’s Certificate for Outstanding Architecture: Stormen Cultural Centre in Bodø, designed by DRDH Architects, Holmenkollbakken Ski Jump in Oslo, designed by JDS Architects, the Dalake...

07/28/2021. Norway’s new National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design has announced its opening date, 11 June 2022. As early as this summer, visitors can ...

09/22/2025. The National Museum of Norway presents ART·HAND·WORK, an ambitious new exhibition exploring contemporary craft today. Set across two thirds (1600 m²) of the museum’s spacious Light Hall, it features around 100 works by more than 90 international...