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Raoul Dufy’s colorful paintings of Paris open the season’s exhibition at the Musée de Montmartre in Paris. Montmartre used to be the artists quarters during the middle of the 19th – and beginning of the twentieth century. It’s still like a village, with its hills, grapevines, parks, paved side-walks, numerous ateliers and small houses. Paris,… Continue reading Dufy’s Paris

This is a somewhat equivocal title for this spring’s exhibition of the painter Anders Zorn (1860 – 1920), showing at our National museum in Stockholm. It’s true that he was well-known but for some, he’s outdated. I tried to find out what such a traditional painter can offer a contemporary viewer.  Stockholm National Museum has… Continue reading Zorn: a Swedish superstar

The nordic fashion that’s shown at Prince Eugene, Waldemarsudde, situated in Stockholm Royal Park, doesn’t have much resemblance to anything Nordic except for its name. What is Nordic anyways? After having been a rather homogeneous country, Sweden has become very cosmopolitan. This fashion exhibition mirrors this international development. Not only that but the concept of… Continue reading Future Nordic Fashion

In France, the intellectual socialist party members are referred to as gauche caviar – meaning a privileged group of champagne socialists. However, one after another, they have, like a house of cards, started to fall from their pedestal. What led to this more or less untouchable intellectual elite’s downfall, that’s what we’ll explore in this… Continue reading The French intellectual elite fallen into disgrace

There’s an interesting exhibition about Sámi contemporary art in Stockholm this winter.It’s entitled Behind the corner, the wind’s yoik.We discover what that means at Sven-Harry’s art museum. Luckily a few private museums have been kept opened for us art-loving people this otherwise mostly locked down, gloomy winter season. Sven-Harry’s, situated in a park in central… Continue reading The wind’s yoik