Left to right: "Incubus", 1959. Polyester resin mix with black enamel on plywood. 77 ½"tall x 57" wide Harpy, 1962. Polyester resin impregnated tuxedoes and steel. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen. Courtesy: The Box.

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Robert Mallary (1917-1997) was an artist interested in new materials and cutting edge technologies that would enable him to be on the forefront of art making. Freely blending figurative and abstract imagery in imposing, gritty assemblages Mallary created a unique body of work that is complex in material and form. The Box brings the work of Robert Mallary to Los Angeles for the first time since 1954.

Dutch fashion designers Viktor Horstin, left, and Rolf Snoeren, right, give the final touch to one of their creations worn by a model as part of his Fall-Winter 2010-2011 Ready to Wear fashion collection, presented in Paris, Saturday, March. 6, 2010. AP Photo/Jacques Brinon. By: Jenny Barchfield, Associated Press Writer

PARIS (AP).- Performance art — which saw Dutch design duo Viktor & Rolf strip a pup tent-shaped former supermodel down to the size of a Playboy bunny in front of an audience of thousands — rang in Saturday day four of the City of Light's eight-daylong ready-to-wear week.

In memory of two feminist pioneers in Norway ! Johanne Reutz Gjermo  and Ursula Jorfald. Picture from 1962, a demonstration against newclear bomb testing.  Congratulation with 8.th of May, especially to  all our female artist at OsloArt ! 

Michael Moore´s list of the 20 best films of 2009.  To our surprice we found three Norewgian films with one Norwegian film at the top of his list!

This is what Michael Moore writes:

The best movie I saw this year won't be winning any awards tonight at the Oscars. It wasn't even nominated for anything. In fact, it wasn't even shown in the United States. Yet, I'm confident that, if you had had a chance to see it, you would likely agree with me that this is a brilliant film, a rare gem.

People look into a giant, walk-in sculpture of a woman's bikini-clad torso in front of Vienna's MuseumsQuartier cultural complex. The creation is the work of a group of artists led by Dutchman Joep van Lieshout. It is part of an exhibit of the city's MUMOK museum of modern and contemporary art. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak.

VIENNA.- This spring, as part of the OUT SITE programme, MUMOK in collaboration with the MuseumsQuartier Vienna is showing three ‘walk-into’ sculptures by the Dutch art collective Atelier Van Lieshout : the “BikiniBar” (2006) — a female torso dressed in a bikini; “Darwin” (2008) — a dark blue sperm; and the “BarRectum” (2005) — a multi-functional, real, oversized anal orifice. The ‘walk-into’ sculptures by the collective founded in 1995 by Dutch artist Joep van Lieshout, thematize the functionality and aesthetics of sculpture in public spaces in an inventive and humorous way. Amorphous forms that connect up the issues of housing, provisioning, waste disposal, locomotion, and fertilization form the core of Atelier Van Lieshout’s works. Alongside the ready-to-use furniture such as functioning berths, living capsules, or bar counters, the objects often fulfil communal functions such as that of a field hospital or medical laboratory. Over and above this, Atelier Van Lieshout explored the possibilities of autonomous social development with the independent city state, AVLVille, founded in 2001 in Rotterdam harbour and prohibited by the authorities. The “BarRectum” will not only be used by the MUMOK in collaboration with the MuseumsQuartier Vienna, but it will also serve other creative people as a place for holding events and presenting art projects.