Leif Erikson: Last News

Pile o'Sápmi Supreme is a curtain of 400 reindeer skulls, each with a bullet hole in its forehead, and in both scale and bite, it is enough to make your hair stand on end.The piece is by the Sámi artist Máret Anne Sara, and was created in 2017 in protest against a government-enforced cull of reindeer belonging to indigenous Sámi herders that became a cause célèbre in Norway, pitting ancestral rights against environmental concerns that many dismissed as spurious.Positioning the work front and centre of a national institution, then - one that has taken eight years to build, merged five existing institutions and cost in the region of £550 million - will raise eyebrows when the museum opens in June. 'It will be a surprise, but I think a good one,' says Stina Högkvist , director of collections.Previously, she tells me, visitors to Oslo's National Gallery were greeted by a painting of the Norse explorer Leif Erikson 'discovering' America in the 11th century, by the 19th-century Norwegian Christian Krohg.

Interpol performed their debut album ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’ in full at San Francisco’s Outside Lands last week (August 11) to celebrate its 21st anniversary.The record was released in the UK on August 19, 2002, and on the following day in the US, and featured tracks like ‘NYC’, ‘PDA’ and ‘Obstacle 1’.The band played the album in full and in order of its tracklist as they appeared at the Californian festival on Friday, performing on the Sutro stage.In addition to all of ‘Turn The Bright Lights’, they also included two special bonus tracks in ‘Specialist’ – taken from their 2010 self-titled album – and ‘Evil’, which featured on Interpol’s second album, ‘Antics’. According to setlist.fm, the 2004 single ‘Slow Hands’ was also printed on the setlist, but not was not played.Watch footage of the performance and see the setlist in full below.‘Untitled’ ‘Obstacle 1’ ‘NYC’ ‘PDA’ ‘Say Hello To The Angels’ ‘Hands Away’ ‘Obstacle 2’ ‘Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down’ ‘Roland’ ‘The New’ ‘Leif Erikson’ ‘Specialist’ ‘Evil’In July, Interpol also played ‘Antics’ in full at a special gig in Paris, months ahead of the 19th anniversary of that album.

Vikings: Valhalla star Frida Gustavsson has revealed that she once forgot to take her costume off after an intense scene, and accidentally walked into a grocery store.The new Netflix spin-off of Vikings made its debut over the weekend (February 25), moving 100 years after the events of the original series, with a focus on the likes of Leif Erikson (Sam Corlett), Harald Hardrada (Leo Suter) and Freydís Eiríksdóttir (Frida Gustavsson).The series contains many intense moments, and Gustavsson revealed to NME that after her first bloody scene, she got a bit too stuck in.“I have loved playing this part,” she recalled. “The first time I had to have my face covered in blood, it was one of the coolest things I’ve ever got to do.