Lighting up the Darkness in the East
The village of Seydisfjord in the far east of the island is surrounded by high mountains and doesn’t see the sun from November until the end of Februa...
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Electronic Intimacy – International Video Art on TV
Its Time for a Second Round of Night Transmissions For a two-week period, during the typically unprogrammed hours at the end of the major local televi...
Museum Night – Winter Festival Highlight
Tonight is the annual Museum Night in Reykjavík and the city’s museums stay open late, many hosting special events, and most offering free entry from ...
Winter Lights Festival Opens Tomorrow
The Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival opens this week, celebrating this dark time of year with art installations and events that utilize light in diffe...
Two Artist Initiatives and a Megastar under one Roof
Two artists initiatives, The Living Art Museum and Kling Og Bang gallery and Ólafur Elíasson studios are moving in together into the window fortress o...
Are „rednecks“ ruining Iceland?
Iceland born artist Björk says she is tired of “Rednecks” ruining the country. In an recent interview with Vanity Fair Björk said that patriarchies ju...
San Francisco Ballet to Grace Harpa’s Stage in 2016
The San Francisco Ballet will be coming to Reykjavík next spring as part of the 2016 Reykjavík Arts Festival. There will be four performances on the E...
An Icelander Exposed–By Choice
An Icelandic art student has caused a stir on the Internet with a live-streaming video of himself, naked, living in a glass box for an entire week. Th...