Over the last few decades, an unseen enemy has been degrading “The Scream.” The famous painting by Edvard Munch represents human anxiety and anguish and feels especially relevant during these ...

There are perhaps a handful of paintings so iconic, they’ve come to represent images of our time: Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Picasso’s Guernica, da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, and Munch’s The Scream are a few ...

Edvard Munch, 1863–1944, was a zeitgeist conductor. Like Dostoyevsky before him, like Kafka after him, he was one of those somewhat hastily assembled humans—the skull plates not stapled down, the ...

Edvard Munch’s The Scream became an icon of modern anxiety. This film explores the social, psychological, and artistic forces that shaped one of the most powerful images in art history. Federal judge ...

The reputation of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch has never been higher. In recent decades, scholars have elevated his role in the history of art while collectors fueled an explosion in prices for his ...

Edvard Munch’s best-known work, “The Scream,” has been endlessly referenced or parodied – even in “The Simpsons.” But the painter himself, who passed away in 1944, remains an enigma. “His art is ...

Edvard Munch’s The Scream is one of the most iconic paintings of the modern era, inspiring silkscreen prints by Andy Warhol, the killer’s mask in the 1996 film Scream, and the appearance of an alien ...