Norrköping Air offers three artists the opportunity to live and work in Norrköping, Sweden from June 1 to August 31, 2014. It is the second year that Norrköping Air is offering this summer residency to artists from all over the world to develop projects in dialogue with the Norrköping Air team and Swedish institutions. Continue reading »
To promote an exhibition of the controversial U.S. photographer Robert Mapplethorphe exhibition, which runs through October 2, the Swedish museum Fotografiska is showing Mapplethorpe works on its Facebook page depicting nudity — but with the offending areas of the body covered by blue rectangles with the text “Facebook-friendly square.” Facebook “dislikes nakedness whether it is in paintings or photography,” said the spokesperson, adding that these blue patches were slapped on partly to stop Facebook from removing the images but also to trigger a debate. Fine. Let me start one… Continue reading »
