Director Alvaro Porras’ 10-year film “Bigger Than Art” explores truth, beauty, and creativity with Sean Penn, Gottfried ...

The year was 1999. My Norwegian partner and I were living in Amsterdam. One morning I saw in the newspaper (this was back when one read actual newspapers) that there was an exhibition at the Rotterdam ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. While the new sentence is a reduced one, down from the original 34-month sentence given in June 2012, it has ...

This week, an oversized new catalogue of the last two decades of Odd Nerdrum’s work arrived wrapped in plastic and enclosed in a nondescript cardboard box. The volume was published to accompany ...

There are exhibitions that ought to have a notice posted at the entrance warning visitors susceptible to mental depression and There are exhibitions that ought to have a notice posted at the entrance ...

MutualArt invites you on a hauntingly weird exploration of one of the most peculiar artists alive today, who unsettles and provokes, and draws pilgrims to the Norwegian countryside. It happened that ...

Odd Nerdrum draws much of his inspiration for his paintings from Iceland. What is it about this lava island that makes him travel there every year? What is he looking for? We went with him to Iceland ...

The celebrated Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum has been convicted of tax evasion in his native Norway and sentenced to two years in prison without bail on Aug. 17, 2011. The 67-year-old artist is ...

Deciding to track down Odd Nerdrums sources of inspiration his former pupil JanOve Tuv and his son Öde go on a world tour visiting the museums and people that ...

News that the artist Odd Nerdrum is begging the Kingdom of Norway to be spared a year in jail is the dispatch that arrests our attention this morning. Nerdrum is a titanic figure in the tradition of ...