Smithsonian Magazine

Stained by Nicotine and Cocoa Powder, These Edvard Munch Paintings Hung in a Chocolate Factory Cafeteria for a Century. Now, They’re Going on Public Display for the First Time

Three decades after "The Scream," the Norwegian artist painted scenes of daily life for the Freia chocolate factory. The artworks will be on display in his namesake museum in Oslo this spring ...
Hyperallergic

Munch: More Than The Scream

A bookstore across the street from The National Museum pokes fun at the famous image. (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) OSLO — It’s everywhere in Oslo: greeting you at the airport and hanging in ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This 13-Foot-Long Munch Painting Was Hidden From the Nazis in a Norwegian Forest

The middle section of Dance on the Beach (1906) by Edvard Munch Courtesy of Sotheby's After weathering World War II in a barn tucked away in a Norwegian forest, a monumental Edvard Munch painting is ...
Hyperallergic

Knausgaard Finds a Soulmate in Edvard Munch

The author for Hyperallergic’s copies of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s So Much Longing In So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch in Norwegian and English (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) Likewise, ...
Observer

The Scream of Nature: Munch and Reflections on the Anthropocene at The Clark

Nature radiates, vibrates, mutates. It chants, sways and dances. Two shows at the Clark Institute illuminate this joy and complexity through the phenomenological renditions of Edvard Munch (1863-1944) ...