As I write this, another Finnish pastime is threatening to edge sisu out of the limelight. It’s ‘kalsarikännit’, which means ‘getting drunk in your underwear at home’.

From art to Finnish in Turku Inside a 12th-century castle, in the Nun’s Chapel, wooden religious sculptures flickered before the brick walls, lit only by candlelight.

The grand Ateneum Art Museum, with Finland’s oldest and largest collection of art, has reopened after a renovation with a great exhibition of the nineteenth century Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt.

The Finnish Virtual Art Gallery has a collection of famous Finnish paintings e.g Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Albert Edelfelt, Eero Järnefeld, Ferdinand von Wright, Fanny Churberg, Hugo Simberg and ...

"Väino Kunnas' 'Red Dance,' for example, is signed 1927, while the other works in the series were signed the following year. This implies that 'Red Dance' is the series's first and most important ...

Finland's largest art museum, the Ateneum, has changed the nationality signature under the name of artist Illia Riepin [better known by the Russian spelling of his name, Ilya Repin – ed.] from Russian ...

Laurén explained that the Riihimäki glassworks adopted the approach of asking artists – mainly architects and interior designers – to make its glass designs. Until the 1960s the Riihimäki glassworks ...

After three years of renovation, Helsinki’s Finlandia Hall, the iconic modernist building designed by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, has officially reopened its doors to the public. The ...

The friends, Elina Holley and Linda Söderhlm, are among a group of about 100 international painters and artists from all over the world who are being hosted in Tivoli Gardens in Kingston.

As I write this, another Finnish pastime is threatening to edge sisu out of the limelight. It’s ‘kalsarikännit’, which means ‘getting drunk in your underwear at home’.