Fashion freaks will get a treat at the end of this month, March 27-28, when the fifth annual installment of the Vintage Fair takes place at Hornstull Strand, a funky venue by the water which has reinvented itself several times in recent years. (…)

Paris-based multi-media artist and designer is probably most famous for her Cybercouture fashion collections, but she kicks ass as an artist, too.   She has an exhibit opening soon in her native country Norway: The Million Year Memory- digital art, Galleri G, Sandnes, Norway- Sunday 13-17.

Swedish-American artist  Marcus Mårtenson showed his works last night at  a VIP pre-party held in a suite at Berns Hotel: open bar with Campari cocktails,  DJs, burlesque girls in bondage attire, a pirate flag waving outside over the beautiful Stockholm skyline, and good vibes. (…)

Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir – Lights (Photo: Per Plougmann Povlsen)
 
If you are a fan of  large-scale outdoor sculpture gardens, the place to be right now is Denmark.   An Australian project called Sculpture by the Sea—now entering its 12thyear—inspired the Danes to create what appears to be an amazing exhibit of some 60 sculptures on sand, shoreline and water along the Bay of Aarhus. (…)

If you are looking for a sunny-day outing not far from Stockholm, you might consider a trip north to the neighbourhood of Sigtuna.  In nearby Märsta,  the exhibition “Retrospective – Yrjö Edelmann 2009” has just started at the Steninge Gallery.  The Finnish-Swedish artist is famous for his magical photo-realistic paintings of wrapped packages and rumpled paper.   The gallery is located at Steninge Palace,  a baroque construction which is perhaps most famous because one of its former owners was Axel von Fersen, the Swedish nobleman who had a love affair with French Queen Marie Antoinette. (…)

This is exactly what Carolina Gynning did when I asked her for a photograph after her performance in Söndagsparty, Kanal 5’s new talk show live from New York with comedians Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson.  Carolina Gynning, most famous for winning the Swedish version of Big Brother in 2004 and her voluptuous looks, was one of the show’s guests on May 24th, together with author and poet Björn Ranelid. (…)

Fans and friends of Stockholm’s Nationalmuseum—and there are many of us—were dismayed to learn last week about the plan to close the museum for nearly seven years, starting in 2011, in order to renovate and improve the historic building. (…)

It was with mixed feelings that I visited Jan Håfström’s “Heart of Darkness” exhibition at Liljevalchs art museum, since I never have managed to take the slightest interest in that artist. (…)

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