Compounding Edvard's misery was his own fragile health. As Sue Prideaux recounts in her new biography, Edvard Munch: Behind The Scream, he had tuberculosis and spit blood as a boy. His father's ...

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.

The exhibition will be the first in the UK to focus entirely on Munch’s work as a portraitist - Heathcliff O'Malley Edvard Munch will be shown as a sociable rather than a reclusive artist in a new ...

Alexander Abad-Santos is a former writer for The Wire.

Shy souls, 1863 and before -- Never more to be parted, 1864-1868 -- Growing up in Kristiania, 1869-1875 -- The blood-red banner, 1876-1877 -- Losing faith, 1878-1881 -- 'I have decided to become an ...

Barely visible in the top left-hand corner of one of the world's most famous paintings are the words, "Could only have been painted by a madman!" For years, curators and art historians have wondered ...