Leaders & Success Sep 19, 2008
Investor's Business Daily: Edvard Munch's Art Screamed ... Edvard Munch's Art Screamed ... Artist Edvard Munch probably doesn't have the name recognition of a Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh or even Claude Monet. (Investors Business Daily)
Edvard Munch's Art Screamed Sep 19, 2008
Artist Edvard Munch probably doesn't have the name recognition of a Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh or even Claude Monet ... "He just doesn't follow the thinking of the day," Sue Prideaux, author of "Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream," told IBD. "I think it's almost like Bill Gates. You have your completely original thought, and you just pursue it." ... "He attacked the canvas in a remarkable way," said J. Gill Holland, who edited and translated "The Private Journals of Edvard Munch.". (Investors Business Daily)
Superintendent wins million on '5th Grader' Sep 6, 2008
9-What is the name of the following painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. (5th grade art) $300,000. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Jewelry dazzles in MFA exhibit Jul 25, 2008
We know what a tumultuous period the 1890s were in art (any period associated with artists as magnificently overripe as Gustave Moreau, Paul Gauguin, Edvard Munch, and Odilon Redon has to be worth getting to know). So it's perhaps not surprising that jewelry experienced tropical spasms of its own. (Boston Globe)
Art in space Jul 8, 2008
Heavily influenced by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch Azam's work is primarily concerned with how bodies can be represented in different states of motion and tension. "I have always been interested in exploring the boundaries of art and of exploring the connectivity of science and art, so this is a perfect forum for us to be able to explore that" he says. (BBC News -- Science)
'So true, so intimate' Jun 28, 2008
When the north German painter Emil Nolde - a wild, loud pictorial radical, much in the manner of Hammersh;i's Norwegian contemporary Edvard Munch - came to visit Strandgade, the Dane "spoke slowly and softly; we all spoke quietly". Yet, in an interview he gave in 1907, this master of demure conservatism seemed happy enough to explain what appealed to him. (Guardian Unlimited)
The price of Monet: gone for 40m as confidence in the market stays strong Jun 25, 2008
An anonymous buyer paid a world record price for an Edvard Munch at Sotheby's last month, spending 15m on Girls on a Bridge (1902). . (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Seasonal Sales Lack Spring May 17, 2008
As more Impressionist masterworks from the 19th century trickle into museums and out of private hands, the auction houses wisely retooled their Impressionist and modern sales this season to emphasize 20th century artists like Leger and Edvard Munch and even modern-looking works by the Impressionist master Claude Monet. London dealer Hector Paterson, spurred in part by the favorable exchange rate in New York, paid $4. (Wall Street Journal)
Art market faces jittery times as economy slows May 16, 2008
2 million and an Edvard Munch burst its estimate at $30. 8 million. (MSNBC -- News)
One town uses the arts to revive after hurricane Katrina May 14, 2008
Across the region, the hurricane's imprint continues to be as somber as an Edvard Munch painting: damaged downtowns, destroyed neighborhoods, FEMA trailers serving seemingly endlessly as homes. But here in Bay St. Louis (pop. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
* Record art prices soothe downturn worries May 10, 2008
Record prices for works by Claude Monet and Edvard Munch at New Yorks spring sales this week have helped ease fears over the effect of the faltering US economy on the international art market. Evening sales at Sothebys and Christies auction houses raised a total of US$512 million, slightly above lower estimates ahead of the sales, which featured a more tightly edited collection than in last years auctions. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
My ogling makes my girlfriend furious May 10, 2008
Look at anything - a flower arrangement, funeral urn, an Edvard Munch poster - but that which is drawing your eyes like iron filings to a magnet. It can be tough, I know. (Globe and Mail)
New York auction records help ease fears over art market May 9, 2008
NEW YORK (AFP) - Record prices for works by Claude Monet and Edvard Munch at New York's spring sales this week have helped eased fears over the effect of the faltering US economy on the international art market. ADVERTISEMENT. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Past Present in Trondheim, Norway Apr 20, 2008
The Edvard Munch room contains 25 graphic works by the artist, and there s also a European painting collection. The Erkebispegarden museums include wings devoted to memorabilia connected to the history of the Trondheim police force, the Resistance during World War II, and military weapons and equipment from the 16th to 20th centuries. (Suite101.com)
Oslo, Norway, celebrates humanity Apr 13, 2008
Oslo was home to three of Norway's brightest creatives, playwright Henrik Ibsen, artist Edvard Munch, and sculptor Gustav Vigeland, and their legacies loom large in the city's selection of cultural offerings ... -- Best known for "The Scream," Edvard Munch was a pioneer in the Expressionist movement. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
'It's about launching a conversation' Apr 1, 2008
". DeSoto, a painter and novelist (A Blade of Grass), confessed he didn't really like Carr's paintings after he moved to British Columbia from South Africa with his parents at the age of 15. "I was just too young and inexperienced to understand and appreciate her art," he said. Now, he argues in his biography that Carr (1871-1945) belongs in the same company as Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch and Paul C?zanne, and that her work should be in the permanent collections of the Tate in London and New... (Globe and Mail)
Figuratively Speaking: A Group Exhibition Mar 6, 2008
To capture the human life in a single instant, in a pose, or embrace, Champlin exceeds the bounds of portraiture and inhabits an expressionism reminiscent of fellow Norwegian Edvard Munch. Tides of color roil around his subjects like auras, and are echoed in similar ebbs within the limbs and faces of those he brings to the canvas. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Vampires not welcome: Artist creates stink at Ark Mar 2, 2008
"I was influenced by the work of Edvard Munch. His work, Vampire, shows a woman consoling her lover or sucking his blood. It is open to interpretation. But in my experience, the bloodsuckers are not always women. This stems from my experience with my father, who married three women and was never really a father to us.". Evidently this is an experience that he cannot quite shake off though his intention is to have nothing more to do with his father. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
City of Basel Rejects Bid for Munch, Chagall Art by Nazi Victim's Heirs Mar 1, 2008
Feb. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The city of Basel rejected a claim by the heirs of Curt Glaser, a Jewish art collector persecuted by the Nazis, for the return of more than 100 works by artists including Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse. Glaser was director of Berlin's Art Library and an art historian and critic who had Munch and Beckmann as friends. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Four masterpieces stolen in Zurich heist Feb 12, 2008
Sunday s robbery ranks among the top art thefts of the past three decades, alongside the 1991 heist of 20 works by van Gogh from a museum in Amsterdam and the 2004 theft of two paintings by Edvard Munch, The Scream and Madonna, from the Munch Museum in Oslo. The paintings stolen in both of those robberies were later recovered. (Montana Standard, MT)
Unloading loot far tougher than smash and grab Feb 12, 2008
Two paintings by Edvard Munch stolen in August, 2004, from the Munch Museum in Oslo were recovered two years later by Norwegian police, damaged but salvageable. The E. G. Buehrle thieves got away with Monet's Poppies Near Vetheuil (1880), Degas's Count Lepic and his Daughters (1871), Van Gogh's Blossoming Chestnut Branches (1890) and C. (Globe and Mail)
A stunning gift lights up LACMA Jan 12, 2008
The collection has no paintings by Kazimir Malevich or Edvard Munch, for example, to name just two prominent missing persons. But it's certainly more than respectable, and in some areas considerably more. (Los Angeles Times)
Book review: The Book of Other People Jan 10, 2008
Perkus reminds the narrator of a self-portrait of Edvard Munch, showing "the painter wide-eyed and whiskered, shrunken within his clothes," and he takes charge of the narrator's aesthetic education, loading him up with essential tapes and DVDs, and lecturing him about everyone from Chet Baker to Myrna Loy to John Cassavetes. Although Perkus could easily have degenerated, in the hands of a less skillful writer, into a collection of odd traits pasted haphazardly together, Lethem manages in these... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Book Review: Modernism Nov 22, 2007
Edvard Munch, a second-rater by most estimations, gets promoted to the first rank, largely because his psychological obsessions dovetail with Gay's Freudianism. Literature, music and architecture, especially the pioneering architectural and design work of the Bauhaus movement, bring out his most insightful writing. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Online giant designs special logo after 8 years of ignoring U.S. holiday Nov 12, 2007
Google also has given special honors for astronomer Percival Lowell, artist Edvard Munch and Louis Braille, inventor of the writing system for the blind. Other days commemorated included National Teachers Day, Women's Day, Ray Charles' birthday, World Water Day and St. George's Day. (WorldNetDaily)
Immodest proposals Oct 13, 2007
When Paula Modersohn-Becker painted herself naked, she had Edvard Munch, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele and Lovis Corinth keeping pace with her. Since then, a horde of women artists who use their own bodies as their principal medium of expression has overrun the art scene. (Guardian Unlimited)
But consistently ignores patriotic commemorations such as Memorial Day Oct 5, 2007
Google also has given special honors for astronomer Percival Lowell, artist Edvard Munch and Louis Braille, inventor of the writing system for the blind. (Story continues below). (WorldNetDaily)
Fabulous fledglings Aug 24, 2007
The day we meet, Whelan unfolds a pair of jeans featuring a cascade of red stitching across the rump, three fabric crosses at hip height, a padlock and key for a button, and explains how they echo the life of tortured The Scream painter Edvard Munch. He vows a return to the technical beauty of made-to-measure and for his show collection for Spring Fashion Week offers 1920s-inspired frocks and men's suiting. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Million-dollar painting stolen from Australian gallery Jun 14, 2007
In one famous case, masked gunmen seized the Edvard Munch masterpieces "The Scream'' and "Madonna'' from a museum in Oslo, Norway, in 2004. The paintings were recovered by police last year, and three men were charged with the heist. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Lost in art: Contest winners get creative Jun 11, 2007
Students were most often drawn to Edvard Munch's "Scream," or Leonardo daVinci's "Mona Lisa," but other popular subjects included Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and various works by Pablo Picasso or Andy Warhol ... "Hey, that looks like you," Michael said to Jessica, pointing to the scary "Scream" by Edvard Munch. (Stamford Advocate)
Show stresses Munch's role as pathfinder of modern art May 7, 2007
Highlighting the Swiss art season, the Edvard Munch exhibit is focusing on his pioneering role as a founder of Expressionism by a free handling of color and revolutionary techniques ... BASEL, Switzerland (AP) Angst and anguish mark the life and work of Edvard Munch, who 10 years before his death said he was "born dying.". (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Stiff sentences in Edvard Munch theft trial Apr 24, 2007
Oslo - Three men were sentenced Monday to between five and nine years in jail for their part in the 2004 armed robbery of two valuable paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. An appeal court in Oslo also ordered the three to pay 1. (Monsters and Critics.com)
Decorate your MacBook with Van Gogh via GelaSkins Apr 12, 2007
The line of skins features the work of classical artists including Claude Monet, Edvard Munch and Vincent Van Gogh to pop artists like Ralph Steadman. You ll even find works from Kurt Vonnegut, graphic art showing the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and pop art inspired by video games and modern graphic design. (MacCentral)
Stolen 'Scream' may undergo surgery (Doug Mellgren) Apr 12, 2007
OSLO, Norway The theft-damaged Edvard Munch masterpieces "The Scream" and "Madonna" may require treatment by an eye surgeon to remove tiny splinters of glass during their restoration, the Munch Museum's director said yesterday. "That is one of the options under consideration," Lise Mjoes said after testifying at a court hearing in Oslo. (Washington Times)
Partners of Chinese head tax payers to get compensation Apr 12, 2007
An eye surgeon may be required to remove tiny glass splinters Edvard Munch masterpieces The Scream and Madonna, the director of the Munch Museum in Oslo said Wednesday. A new analysis suggests a distant planet outside our solar system has water in its atmosphere. (CBC British Columbia)
Armchair Cinephile Apr 4, 2007
Since the 70s, Watkins hasn t just stuck with completely political subjects the art biopic Edvard Munch is among New Yorker s offerings but that s certainly what he s best known for. First Run Features has released what to date is his magnum opus, the nearly six-hour La Commune (Paris, 1871), which marshals more than 200 actors to restage one of history s most famous rebellions. (San Antonio Current, TX)
Face Up To Reality Apr 4, 2007
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Court upholds convictions of 'Scream' robbers Mar 31, 2007
The masterpiece and another painting by Edvard Munch, Madonna, were snatched from Oslo's Munch Museum in August 2004 in a daring daytime raid by two armed masked robbers. The court found Stian Skjold, the man cleared at the earlier trial, was one of the two robbers, his accomplice, Petter Tharaldesn, was the chauffeur and Bjoern Hoen was one of the brains behind the heist. (ABC News Online, Australia -- Arts)
3 convicted, 3 acquitted in Munch theft case Mar 31, 2007
Men had stolen Edvard Munch masterpieces The Scream and Madonna. Richard Jeffries / APEdvard Munch masterpieces "The Scream", left, and "Madonna." Damage is visible on the lower right part of "Madonna." The paintings were stolen from the museum by armed robbers in August 2004 and recaptured by police August 31, 2006 ... OSLO, Norway - An appeals court Friday convicted three men and acquitted three others of involvement in the 2004 theft of the Edvard Munch masterpieces The Scream... (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
BC's McMullen Museum of Art courts controversy with 'Pollock Matters' Feb 18, 2007
Mark Bessire, director of the Bates College Museum of Art, said he was surprised the McMullen, known for scholarly exhibitions on the painter Edvard Munch and surrealist Roberto Matta, would host the show. "It's definitely taking a risk, and exciting for them to be taking that risk," he said. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Art sale makes record 95m Feb 7, 2007
Works by Renoir, Degas, Monet and Edvard Munch and a sculpture by Modigliani were also sold. Sotheby's said there was a surge of interest in the modern art market, as shown by the fact the Soutine was sold for 1. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Sotheby's Raises $186 Million in London Sale of Impressionist, Modern Art Feb 6, 2007
Some Edvard Munch works doubled their estimates, or better. Sotheby's offered 98 lots as sellers tried to profit from rising prices and the strong U.K. pound, and its sale total was 38 percent greater than last year's. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Imogen Heap: As heard onfilm, TV Feb 3, 2007
Of Montreals Kevin Barnes pours his darkness and anxiety into the albums 12 songs with a funky ebullience like Edvard Munch on an ecstasy bender. By Del Engen. (MSNBC -- Music)
'Kindred Spirits' is legacy exhibit Jan 26, 2007
Flying Boy appears in one painting that pays tribute to while satirizing the work of Edvard Munch. Both the character and the reference to Munch are typical of a curious combination that exists in much of Slack's work of persistent humor and persistent melancholy in a bittersweet waltz through life. (The News-Herald)
Events calendar Jan 5, 2007
From March 18 until July 15, an exhibition at the Beyeler Foundation in Basel presents works by Norwegian painter and graphic artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) with 140 paintings, drawings and prints from every phase of the artist's career. The retrospective review focuses on Munch's significance as the founder of Expressionism. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
