As the sun set on Wednesday evening, a group of journalists sat down to smoked herring roulades and cloud-berry cocktails at a low-lit restaurant on the Helsinki waterfront. “Everybody thinks that ...

It’s been a big year in Helsinki’s art world. The Finnish capital is wrapping up its second Biennial and celebrating the 150th anniversary of its Design Museum. But even frequent visitors may not know ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish customs said on Wednesday they had stopped works of art worth around 42 million euros ($46 million) from being returned to Russia last weekend due to European Union ...

Nearly 130 Finnish artists will not be working with Kiasma, the modern art wing of Finland’s national gallery, they announced, in protest of a Finnish-Israeli billionaire who supports the gallery and ...

Over 70 artists and cultural workers announced today, December 1, that they are striking Finland's Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, part of the Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki. The artists are ...

More than 150 artists and cultural workers are boycotting Finland’s Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in protest of the institution’s relationship with billionaire Chaim “Poju” Zabludowicz and his ...

Tom of Finland, the Finnish artist famous for his homoerotic illustrations of hypermasculine men, died in 1991. But his legacy lives on — through his art, which adorns queer establishments around the ...

For the second year in a row, Finland has been named the world’s happiest country (while the U.S. barely broke the top 20, ranked at 19th). What makes the Finnish so happy? Well, you might just have ...

A Cleveland Institute of Art student will display her works in a solo exhibition at the Finnish Heritage Museum in Fairport Harbor Village. “Seeking Sisu: From Finland with Love” is the title of a ...

When the very first Helsinki Biennial launched in 2021, it was a pretty local affair as the world was just emerging from the Covid 19 pandemic. So this year’s biennial, that runs until the fall, is in ...