Two paintings vie for the top spot in Western art history, earning them pride of place on countless postcards, posters, and tote bags among other forms of merchandise and mass media incarnations. One ...

If all you’ve seen of Edvard Munch is his now-iconic painting “The Scream,” then you’re in for a dark and exquisitely anguished surprise at Tacoma Art Museum. “Edvard Munch and the Sea” — up through ...

Clouds may have been the inspiration behind Edvard Munch’s The Scream. A new paper by researchers in Olso postulates that a phenomenon known as “mother-of-pearl” clouds may have occurred around the ...

Back away from The Scream—literally. The famed Edvard Munch painting is deteriorating, and it’s all because adoring visitors to Olso’s Munch Museum are crowding its display. To preserve the 1910 ...

The famed Norwegian expressionist artist Edvard Munch is best-known for his unforgettably spooky “The Scream,” but he had a lot more in him than an existential shriek. Much like residents of the ...

"The Scream" by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was the most popular attraction at the opening of the new Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway. Norway’s capital city Oslo is known for its modernist architecture ...

Edvard Munch. The Scream. Pastel on board. 1895. © 2012 The MunchMuseum/The Munch-Ellingsen Group/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NewYork Six days before all hell ...

A bookstore across the street from The National Museum pokes fun at the famous image. (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) OSLO — It’s everywhere in Oslo: greeting you at the airport and hanging in ...

“The Scream’s” record-setting price, the highest yet for a work sold at auction, underlines a facet of the market that has been vibrant for some time: the very high end of iconic pieces and works ...

The absence of The Scream from the Edvard Munch retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art—it was, memorably, stolen in broad daylight from an Oslo museum—highlights something important about this ...