Norwegian Cultural Events in New York Fall is that time of year when you can allow yourself to spend a little time in the dark - literally. This weekend we recommend you to go see Northern Lights, a film about Scandinavian-American history. Re-release of the 1979 film Northern Lights NORTHERN LIGHTS (Directed by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson): Winner of Camera d'Or Cannes Film Festival 1979, dramatizes the life of the immigrant Scandinavian farmers in North Dakota who in 1915 founded the Nonpartisan League, one of the most successful populist labor movements in United States history. Read more > Ignorant Transparencies by Bjarne Melgaard Gavin Brown's enterprise presents Ignorant Transparencies, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with the New York-based Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard. Experience Melgaard’s pieces at the gallery from September 14th to October 26th. open from 10am to 6pm, Tuesday through SaturdayRead more > Everybody Counts: Photos by Erlend Mikael Sæverud Everybody Counts is an exhibition featuring portraits of religious and spiritual leaders and worshippers holding prayer beads. Opening September 12 at the Trygve Lie Gallery. Read more > Meeting Point III - Veiled Collapse and Expansion Meeting Point III is the third cultural exchange between visual performance artists from Bergen, Beijing and New York City – events already having taken place in Beijing in 2009 and in Bergen in 2012. Now the performance pays a visit to New York City.Read more > Sami rappers in the Arctic Highlands NOoSPHERE Arts presents Viking Rappers featuring photographer Martin Johansen and writer/director Simen Braathen. They have spent the last two years documenting Norwegian rap artists and the places they come from. From indigenous Sami rappers in the Arctic Highlands, who use hip­-hop as an instrument to revitalize their nearly extinct language, to American gangster-rap fanatics down south.Read more > Susanne Sundfør performs in New York The Norwegian singer Susanne Sundfør will perform twice in New York at the end of September - once with the Brooklyn-based duo The Mast. Susanne Sundfør continues the expansion of her musical universe with her new album, The Silicone Veil (2012), a follow-up to the critically acclaimed, platinum-selling The Brothel (2010), which spent 30 weeks in the Norwegian album charts and sold more than 40 000 copies. Now she is ready to take the stage in New York. Read more > Soundings: A Contemporary Score at MoMA MoMA's first major exhibition of sound art presents work by 16 of the most innovative contemporary artists working with sound. One of them, the Norwegian sound artist Jana Winderen, will be exhibited at MoMA this fall through November 3.Read more > Norwegian artist at The Amsterdam Whitney Gallery Norwegian artist Lillian Torjusson is exhibiting for the first time in New York. Torjusson will showcase her artwork at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery between September 3 and October 1.Read more >

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