My last review this year was of a beautiful exhibition by the Finnish photographer Nelli Palomäki. Nelli Palomäki: Roi at 7 Nelli Palomäki was born 1981 in Forssa, Finland. She lives and works in Helsinki. Palomäki is connected to The Helsinki School – a selected group of artists who have graduated or attended Aalto University, School of Arts,…
Tag: Morgenbladet
How Should One Read a Book?
It seems I’ve turned my blog into a self-help channel … Here are some advices from Virginia Woolf: How Should One Read a Book? In the first place, I want to emphasise the note of interrogation at the end of my title. Even if I could answer the question for myself, the answer would apply…
art & affect
continuing my research on the importance of art – RECAPITULATING (Oh, I know – some of you are more than sick and tired of this, if you are amongst the exhausted ones; please visit again later!) Here we go: I went to Alain de Botton, I read his book and visited his exhibition, and even went public…
art is not therapy
Last week I went to Amsterdam to see and review Alain de Botton and John Armstrong’s exhibition “Art is Therapy” at the Rijksmuseum. The immediate result of my trip was a review written and published in the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet. (A weekly, national newspaper focused on culture, politics & arts). For 7 years I have…
«Art is Therapy»
– here is the result from the Norwegian jury; my review of Alain de Botton & John Armstrong’s exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam – now on print in Morgenbladet (Norwegian weekly newspaper) (a resume in English will follow tomorrow)
sub rosa 