The Norwegian figurative painter Odd Nerdrum does big, dark, brooding narrative scenes that look like they were painted in the seventeenth century. He has been exhibiting in New York since the early ...

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 ...

This week, an oversized new catalogue of the last two decades of Odd Nerdrum’s work arrived wrapped in plastic and enclosed in a nondescript cardboard box. The volume was published to accompany ...

Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum famously obsesses over his large-scale, classical works, often repainting his canvases over and over again with the help of a small band of apprentices. Working in the ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. While the new sentence is a reduced one, down from the original 34-month sentence given in June 2012, it has ...

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 ...

MutualArt invites you on a hauntingly weird exploration of one of the most peculiar artists alive today, who unsettles and provokes, and draws pilgrims to the Norwegian countryside. It happened that ...