26 Dec 2024
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Patti Smith opens Eighteen Stations photo exhibition in Stockholm

Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory. Patti Smith Artist, performer and poet Patti Smith was present at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern to inaugurate her own photo exhibition called Eighteen Stations. With striking kindness Smith strolled around her exhibition, saying hi to the public and signing books before giving […]

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Shopping For Contemporary East Asian Art

Art lovers in Stockholm have been treated with much cherished doses of contemporary East Asian art this year. Wetterling Gallery ran “The Doubling of Reality” solo exhibition by Berlin-based Korean painter SEO in April and May, while ArkDes and Moderna Museet’s joint presentation of their “Yayoi Kusama – The Infinity” summer show on the renowned […]

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Art Exhibitions Picked For May

May’s selection of art exhibitions focuses on European and American artists, from covering significant western art movements that have taken place over the recent couple of centuries to what art makers on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are creating and setting trends today.   Finnish-born Juri Markkula’s art, while immediately fascinating, soon turn enigmatic […]

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YLC’s Picks: Stockholm Art Exhibitions

Spring heralds in a selection of art exhibitions that promises something for everyone. With artists hailing from within Sweden, Europe and beyond, they are serving up drawings, collages, sculptures, video art, silkscreen prints, paintings, photographs and textile appliqué works spanning the extensive continuum of poetic to political.   Exhibition: Mother of Pearl and the others […]

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Aguéli & Klee’s Defiant Gardens

 At a time when Western modern society was beginning to take shape, when trains and machines of all kinds sped up life and travel, and when looking for the spiritual or esoteric was still a common preoccupation of its people, these very elements catalyzed the compelling art crafted by the Swedish Ivan Aguéli (1869-1917) and […]

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YLC’s Picks for Kulturnatt 2015

Kulturnatt 2015 is set to take over Stockholm on April 25th and a wide array of cultural events will be on offer for everyone in the Venice of the North to enjoy. But with over 400 things to do in one night, figuring where to start can be a daunting task for even the most […]

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Spotlight On Catie Rix Photography

Hi, My name is Catie and I’m a recent addition to the Your Living City: Stockholm team and also the face behind the name, Catie Rix Photography.

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Why Every Expat Should Take an Improv Class

You are in a completely new environment, new characters, new language and you have no idea what will happen next. It’s scary and exciting.

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Charles Dickens: “A Christmas Carol”

Is it just me or does Christmas hurtle towards us, at an exponential rate? Every. Single. Year. Am I the only one who finds it almost impossible to reconcile the “Christmas Spirit” with frantically taking care of family and preparing for what inevitably becomes a bit of an anti-climax? Yes? Really? “Bah, humbug!”

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The Stockholm International Poetry Festival: A Preview

So dull and dark are the November days, but for lovers of poetry in Stockholm, a light flickers on the horizon: the November 25th kickoff of the Stockholm International Poetry Festival.

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