Tag: recommendations
“I call it art” at the National Museum – Reviews and recommendations
The National Museum has always been exceptionally good at group presentations. Unfolding the history of art, design and architecture through objects and expressions. They are less good at setting the…
«Museum» by Anna Fiske – Reviews and recommendations
One can with good reason be skeptical of literary commissioned works. How free is the author, what guidelines are behind it? The National Museum probably feared no slaughter when they…
Isata Kanneh-Mason during the Bergen Festival – Reviews and recommendations
The British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason (26) has already managed to make a mark on a homogeneous and classically cultivated classical music culture. In her critically acclaimed record releases, she has…
Lene Berg – «From father» at Bergen Kunsthall – Reviews and recommendations
It is said that memory is a poet and not a storyteller. In Lene Berg’s powerful festival project in Bergen Kunsthall, the focus is precisely on the dictatorship of memory.…
“Kairos” by Jenny Erpenbeck – Reviews and recommendations
Cairos is the god of the crucial moments in life. He stands in contrast to Kronos who is the god of the long time spans. By choosing this particular figure…
«Salome» during the Bergen Festival – Reviews and recommendations
The character gallery in Richard Strauss’ one-act play “Salome” is remarkably unsympathetic, even to opera to be. The raving insane Herod who wallows in sensual excesses, while at the same…
“To Paradise” by Hanya Yanagihara – Reviews and Recommendations
Is Hanya Yanagihara’s new novel too long? Yes. Is it good? Sure! Three long blocks, each of which could have been a whole novel, take us to Washington Square in…
“Noah’s Ark” at the Norwegian Opera and Ballet – Reviews and recommendations
Let it be said at once, the gathering of children, young people and young adults who sing and play Benjamin Britten’s gripping mini-opera, deserves all possible praise and applause. They…