WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Ideas about what the world is made of — its constituent elements — were running riot when Edvard Munch (1863-1944) came into his own as an artist. Geology — and ...

Edvard Munch’s The Scream is world famous. The image of a figure, hands to face, letting out an existential shriek, has been endlessly reproduced—on posters, T-shirts, mugs—and made into ...

Munch had no intention of staying put, which is what makes him a painter for our time. Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth Through Oct. 15, The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.; 413-458-2303 ...