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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Archaeologists in Norway said Jan. 17 that they have found a runestone which they claim is the world’s oldest, saying the inscriptions are up to 2,000 years old and date back to the earliest days of the enigmatic history of runic writing.
OSLO, Norway (AFP) – A Norwegian art museum on Friday returned a precious Matisse painting looted by the Nazis during World War II to the American heirs of the French art dealer Paul Rosenberg. The 1937 painting by Henri Matisse – Woman in Blue in Front of a Fireplace – worth an estimated $20 million […]
OSLO (AFP) – Norway’s trade surplus leapt by an annualized 44.5 percent in May in the wake of bigger oil exports and the record sale of Edvar Munch’s iconic painting The Scream, official data showed on Friday. The Norwegian Statistics Bureau SSB said the non-European Union country recorded a sharply higher trade surplus of 43.2 […]
OSLO, Aug 17, 2011 (AFP) – One of Norway’s most famous contemporary artists, Odd Nerdrum, was on Wednesday sentenced to two years behind bars for not paying tax on the millions he has raked in selling his work. Famous for his apocalyptic paintings, the 67-year-old artist was accused of not paying taxes on the some 14 million kroner […]