The genre of dark crime stories with bleak Scandinavian settings has a huge following around the world. The upcoming release of Wisting based on the books by Jørn Lier Horst is the latest in a long ...
Norwegian Culture Blog
The Quake: Disaster Strikes Oslo
Disaster returns to Norway with Skjelvet (The Quake), a follow up to the 2015 movie The Wave. For anyone that enjoyed Bølgen (The Wave), you’ll be delighted to hear that disaster has returned to ...
How to Do Environmental Art Right
36 permanent sculptures make up the Artscape Nordland collection, spread out across hundreds of miles of rural northern Norway. This article was originally published at The Conversation by Rachel ...
The Snowman: Nordic Noir With a Hint of Dirty Harry
Tomas Alfredson’s recently released film adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s bestselling novel The Snowman closely captures, in its slow, quiet intensity, the bleak essence of Nordic Noir. This article was ...
Oslo Biennial Planned for 2019
A new art biennial is set to further boost Oslo's growing reputation on the global art scene. Oslo's Agency for Cultural Affairs is organising its first art biennial, scheduled to open in May ...
A Norway Mystery: Jeanne Matthews Interview
Bonereapers is a murder mystery set in the hostile environment of Svalbard. We chatted to author Jeanne Matthews about the book. One of the fringe benefits of writing a guidebook for a major ...
Nikolai Astrup: Norwegian Painter
It's only in the last few years that the colourful work of the Norwegian painter has become known outside of Norway. Although both artists are expressionists who used lurid colours to record ...
Think you know about the Vikings?
Learn the truth about the Vikings with a free audio course. How much do you really know about the Vikings? What is fact, and what is fiction? In a series of 36 vivid lectures by an honored teacher ...
The Wave: Norway’s First Disaster Movie
A tsunami in a Norwegian fjord? Seriously? Well, as the trailer for Bølgen (The Wave in English) states: Det har skjedd før. Det vil skje igjen It has happened before. It will happen ...