Warhol is the biggest name, but the public areas of this hotel carry the work of some of the most important names in contemporary art: Fiona Banner’s pink-lettered, sub-pornographic text of Lawrence of Arabia – The Desert – for example; Tony Cragg’s wryly brutish Subcommittee, a knobbly metal sculpture that weighs the best part of a ton; Niki de Saint Phalle’s sinuous steel-and-polyester sculpture Le Grand Rossignol floats touchably in a plush sitting area – a snip at £560,000, if it were for sale.

These works have been loaned, as part of an ongoing arrangement, by the new Renzo Piano-designed Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art, 100m away from the hotel on a spit of land jutting into Oslo fjord. Seventy-five of the hotel’s 119 rooms contain works by lesser-known, but notable artists, bringing the total worth of all the art in the hotel to £3m.

A night with Andy Warhol: Oslo hotel The Thief takes art very seriously indeed (The Independent)