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Picasso murals removed from Oslo building damaged by Breivik

Despite protests, the removal of two murals designed by Pablo Picasso began on Monday from an Oslo government building damaged in right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik's 2011 attack, a project manager said.

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New York's MoMA calls for Norway to save Picasso building

New York's Museum of Modern Art has thrown its considerable cultural weight behind the campaign to rescue Oslo's brutalist Y-block building and its two gigantic sandblasted murals by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.

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Norway saves tower hit in Breivik blast

Norway's government will knock down three of the four buildings damaged in the 2011 bomb attack mounted by terrorist Anders Breivik, but preserve the brutalist tower which was the killer's main target.

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Oslo likely to demolish tower Breivik bombed

Oslo City Council is leaning towards demolishing the 1958 government high rise damaged in far-Right terrorist Anders Breivik's 2011 bomb attack.

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'Save tower Breivik bombed': heritage report

The concrete government tower bombed by far-right terrorist Anders Breivik is of "great national value" and should be repaired and preserved for posterity, Norway's cultural heritage directorate has ruled.

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Architects want to save tower bombed by Breivik

Eight out of ten architects in Norway want to keep the concrete government tower damaged by Norway terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, citing its Picasso-designed murals and brutalist design, a survey for NRK has revealed.