Tag: Reviews
Shadow of the Erdtree” – Reviews and recommendations
With “Elden Ring”, the Japanese game studio FromSoftware took a solid step out of its self-created niche. Let’s call the niche “relentlessly difficult games”. 25 million copies sold is the…
“Flood” by Hanne Friis at Kode in Bergen – Reviews and recommendations
One kilometer of fabric forms the starting point for the textile installation “Flood”, which now fills Tårnsalen at Kode. For over twenty years, Hanne Friis has distinguished herself with her…
“A Thousand Days with the Taliban” by Ayesha Wolasmal – Reviews and recommendations
Ayesha Wolasmal works in the Global Partnership Against Polio when the US forces withdraw from Afghanistan in 2021. In the chaos that ensues, Wolasmal, like other international presence, is evacuated.…
“Composition for the left hand” by Kode, Bergen – Reviews and recommendations
“To succeed as an art collector you have to be obsessed, and then you have to be early…” says Erling Kagge. He is known not only as a passionate art…
“Kvinne knen din din kropp” at Det Westnorske Teateret, Bergen – Reviews and recommendations
She called the feminist bible, the book “Woman, know your body”. The handbook on women’s health was revolutionary when it came out – at a time when abortion was still…
“La bohème” by Trondheim Symphony Orchestra & Opera in Olavshallen – Reviews and recommendations
It was, of course, only a matter of time before someone came up with the idea of replacing the Parisian bohemians who populate Puccini’s evergreen opera with bohemians of a…
“See you in August” by Gabriel García Márquez – Reviews and recommendations
Just before he died, Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian Nobel Prize winner in literature, began a novel about a woman in midlife called Ana Magdalena Bach. Every August, she travels…
Melodien i Moommidalen” – Reviews and recommendations
Everything is in jeopardy when the Snusmumrikken returns to Moomindalen after its annual winter journey. The park service and the police have built ugly, closed parks where there used to…
“Elisabeth von Krogh – Retrospective/prospective” at Haugar Kunstmuseum – Reviews and recommendations
At Gardermoen there are five large, colorful vase-like sculptures, created by the renowned Norwegian ceramist Elisabeth von Krogh. This is an installation most of us have seen, as it is…
“Mysteriet Banksy” at the Økern Center, Oslo – Reviews and recommendations
Banksy is the street artist with a capital G. There is no one who dominates the field like him. For almost 30 years, he has distinguished himself as a guerrilla…