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 ...

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 ...

Artist Odd Nerdrum lost his appeal in Norwegian courts this week and, in a strange twist of fate, he will receive an even longer jail sentence than the one he was appealing. Nerdrum, who is convicted ...

The celebrated Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum has been convicted of tax evasion in his native Norway and sentenced to two years in prison without bail on Aug. 17, 2011. The 67-year-old artist is ...

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 ...

The Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum (born 1944) has been exhibiting his work with some regularity in New York since 1983, yet he remains a fugitive figure as far as the official art world is concerned.

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 ...