Swedish house speaker removes bare breasts painting
The deputy speaker of Riksdag in Sweden has removed a painting featuring a bare-breasted woman from the parliament’s dining room wall.
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Nature Picture of the Year won by ‘Swallowed Alive’
A photograph entitled Swallowed Alive has been named as the 2013 Picture of the Year. The photograph, which was taken by Finn Jukka-Pekka Tikkanen, sh...
Stockholm Film Festival: Ai Weiwei named as judge
Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei has been chosen as one of the judges for the Stockholm Film Festival despite the fact he is not expected to be allowed to ...
Icelandic and Russian presidents to meet at Arctic forum
Icelandic President ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is set to meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin later this week at the The Arctic – Territory of Dialogue...
TREE / Difficulty of Freedom / Freedom of Difficulty 12.09.2013 – 26.09.2013
Press release: TREE / Difficulty of Freedom / Freedom of Difficulty, an art exhibition by Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir (IS), Carin Ellberg (SE), Erla S. ...
Retrospective Yoko Ono exhibition launches in Denmark
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in the Danish city of Humlebæk has launched a retrospective exhibition to recognise the star, who turned 80 earlier...
New Resistance Museum plan has feathers ruffled
Following the arson attack that damaged the Resistance Museum in April new plans for the exhibits have raised controversy, as the curators move away f...
New Munch museum gets green light
After years of wrangling, Oslo politicians have reached agreement on establishing a new museum to house Edvard Munch’s masterpieces. Spaniard Juan Her...