Parisa Liljestrand (M) becomes the first Minister of Culture both to skip the film policy meeting before the Gothenburg Film Festival and to be booed when she opens it by talking about moderate politics.
In the 2026 budget, culture will receive 9.6 billion kronor, which corresponds to 0.62 percent of the state budget. The proportion has not been this low in 26 years, according to a review by Magasin K.
However, the Royal Stockholm Opera has managed to raise 300 million kronor in private donations, which makes the second stage that the Opera wants possible. The state's cost will be 3.25 billion kronor for the State Property Board's largest and most complex renovation and reconstruction to date.
In this case, I think the public sector obviously has a responsibility, says Parisa Liljestrand to TT.
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Ikea, Katitzi, Paternity Leave, the Saltsjöbad Agreement and Pippi Longstocking are included in the "cultural canon for Sweden" that the expert groups have developed according to a decision by the Tidö parties.
It cost 5.9 million kronor, now it is up to the government to decide how it will be used. A "nationalistic education project" according to the trade union DIK. If it "does not have an effect in schools, it is completely pointless," committee chairman Lars Trägårdh toldSveriges Radio.
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Ahead of the Gothenburg Book Fair, the headlines of talks arranged by the Sweden-Israel Friendship Association are criticized. “The fabricated famine in Gaza” is then changed to “What happens to the aid to the people of Gaza?”
Outside the fair, journalists and writers killed in Gaza during a protest that in turn caused controversy are honored.
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Hungarian László Krasznahorkai learns that he is this year's Nobel Prize winner in literature and tells TT:
I have wanted to give readers hope, even to those who have none.
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The government is lowering the VAT on dance bands to 6 percent, while artists such as Jill Johnson, Per Gessle, and E-Type are protesting that a third of the country's rehearsal spaces are at risk of disappearing due to reduced government funding for student associations.
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Artist Lena Cronqvist has passed away, as has director Stina Oscarson. This spring, the Riksteatern will complete her "Uppdrag Holgersson", a new interpretation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic.
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With the book "Welcome to Our Marriage," actors Christopher Wollter and Julia Dufvenius invite readers to a story about a relationship that survives sex abuse.
Poet Aase Berg calls a young female critic a "little pussy" and is pleased with the debate it creates.
"I'm not looking to create comfort," she tells TT.
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Author Håkan Nesser is sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for three counts of aggravated tax evasion.
The comic book promotion magazine Portal is being shut down, the Dansmuseet in Stockholm is closing. Instead of the traditional summer book sale, the financially strained publisher Ellerströms sent out an appeal to readers to shop at regular prices.
The World Culture Museum in Gothenburg refuses to sign the Trump agreement not to include diversity and equality in the program. The museum will lose 100,000 kronor in American support for the exhibition "Native American fashion".
Sveriges Radio's chief of staff Gabriel Byström predicts "a different Sveriges Radio", interviewed by the newspaper Journalisten, after the government presented the public service bill. 300–400 are at risk of disappearing at SR alone, he believes.
Labeling Hezbollah a terrorist became "riding house balls" - SVT's AI subtitles of programs are criticized by the Swedish Radio and Television Review Board.
According to critics at Artnews.com, Sami artist Britta Marakatt-Labba's panoramic embroidery "Historjá" is one of the best works of art of the 21st century, reports Kulturnytt on Sveriges Radio. Moderna Museet in Stockholm is extending her exhibition.
Six climate activists have been acquitted by the Stockholm District Court of vandalism after they glued themselves to a Monet painting at the National Museum. According to the court, they did not intend to cause any greater damage than could be repaired by washing.
