The year was 1999. My Norwegian partner and I were living in Amsterdam. One morning I saw in the newspaper (this was back when one read actual newspapers) that there was an exhibition at the Rotterdam ...

Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum is having his first solo show in the US in five years but he will be prohibited from attending the opening. Art dealer Casey Gleghorn, who is director of the Booth ...

In 2011, Nerdrum’s difficulties with the Norwegian government began, he was convicted of tax evasion in 2012 and sentenced to 34 months in prison. His paintings are held in the collections of the ...

In the chaotic comfort of his barn studio in Southern Norway, painter Odd Nerdrum is working on a new image of the zaftig figure of a hermaphrodite destined for the Nerdrum Museum collection. His ...

There are exhibitions that ought to have a notice posted at the entrance warning visitors susceptible to mental depression and There are exhibitions that ought to have a notice posted at the entrance ...

The catchword of art in the 1980s is ”appropriation,” which describes the strategy of borrowing that is at the heart of a great deal of contemporary painting and sculpture. Odd Nerdrum, the Norwegian ...

A new reality show about Odd Nerdrum’s family teases out the irony of the classical painter’s contempt for the present.