Edvard Munch is best known for The Scream, a painting of a tortured human face unveiled in 1893. But the famous painting is only a small piece of the Norwegian artist’s oeuvre, which includes ...

In 2018, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum was home to an exhibit titled “Munch Exhibition – The Scream of the Resonant Soul.” Fittingly, this exhibit began on October 27, 2018—so it arrived just in ...

Two paintings vie for the top spot in Western art history, earning them pride of place on countless postcards, posters, and tote bags among other forms of merchandise and mass media incarnations. One ...

‘The artist Edvard Munch died last week in Oslo, in his native Norway,” reported Time magazine, almost 80 years ago, Feb. 7, 1944. The magazine described the artist as being “a tall, frail, eccentric ...

Edvard Munch’s best-known work, “The Scream,” has been endlessly referenced or parodied – even in “The Simpsons.” But the painter himself, who passed away in 1944, remains an enigma. “His art is ...

Edvard Munch, 1863–1944, was a zeitgeist conductor. Like Dostoyevsky before him, like Kafka after him, he was one of those somewhat hastily assembled humans—the skull plates not stapled down, the ...

"The Scream" by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was the most popular attraction at the opening of the new Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway. Norway’s capital city Oslo is known for its modernist architecture ...

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Ideas about what the world is made of — its constituent elements — were running riot when Edvard Munch (1863-1944) came into his own as an artist. Geology — and specifically ...

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 ...

Edvard Munch, who never married, called his paintings his children and hated to be separated from them. Living alone on his estate outside Oslo for the last 27 years of his life, increasingly revered ...