On our podcast, the curator of the British Museum’s Munch exhibition tells the story of the Norwegian artist’s anxiety at the blood-red sky he saw above the Oslo fjord, and how it led to a ...

Don’t miss this modest-scale but emotion-packed exhibit by an artist whose paintings are rarely shown here -- the last major Munch exhibition in San Francisco was decades ago at the de Young Museum.

All of which is brilliant news, of course, for the Munch organisation, even if, like so many of his great works, it was inspired by despair. Edvard Munch was born in a village near Kristiania ...

Source: Edvard Munch, Despair 1892. Charcoal and oil on paper. Munch Museum, Oslo. QC 2001 The Munch Museum/The Munch-Ellingsen Group/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Reproduced with permission ...

Edvard Munch, who never married, ... Despair, Anxiety, Death in the Sickroom and The Scream, which he painted in 1893. His style varies dramatically during this period, ...

“I was born dying,” the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is said to have announced near the end of his reasonably long life. A rare Munch exhibition opening this week of 44 mournful ...

Edvard Munch’s black-and-white lithograph The Scream (1895) has already garnered headlines ahead of the British Museum’s exhibition on the Norwegian artist’s prints, which opens this week ...

Edvard Munch, “Despair” (1892), Thiel Gallery (via Wikimedia Commons) The scientists not only explain the meteorological phenomena that cause mother-of-pearl clouds’ unique “brilliance of ...

“The Scream” by Edvard Munch is one of the most famous images in the history of art, and even has its own emoji. If you thought the artwork showed a figure screaming, however, it turns out you ...

Edvard Munch, who never married, ... Despair, Anxiety, Death in the Sickroom and The Scream, which he painted in 1893. His style varies dramatically during this period, ...