Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum is having his first solo show in the US in five years but he will be prohibited from attending the opening. Art dealer Casey Gleghorn, who is director of the Booth ...

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 ...

A new reality show about Odd Nerdrum’s family teases out the irony of the classical painter’s contempt for the present.

The Norwegian figurative painter Odd Nerdrum does big, dark, brooding narrative scenes that look like they were painted in the seventeenth century. He has been exhibiting in New York since the early ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum famously obsesses over his large-scale, classical works, often repainting his canvases over and over again with the help of a small band of apprentices. Working in the ...