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...
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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...
Árstíðir at Airwaves
The a cappella version of an Icelandic hymn called “Heyr Himna Smiður” (Hear, Smith of Heavens) has received a whopping 4,618,692 hits on YouTube as o...
Double win for Iceland at Northern Wave Film Festival
The eighth Northern Wave Film Festival saw the Icelandic film You and I (Þú og ég) by Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir win the award for best Icelandic short...
Iceland officially welcomes displaced Cuban writer
Cuban writer and asylum seeker Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo has been ensured a place to live and financial security by the city of Reykjavík. In 1994, Lazo...
Icelanders reschedule wedding dates for Euro 2016
Weddings in Iceland are being pushed back this summer so as not to clash with Euro 2016. Iceland qualified for their first major international footbal...
Fridriksson to produce The Black Cliffs movie
Icelandic filmmaker Fridrik Thor Fridriksson is set to produce the movie adaptation of the Gunnar Gunnarsson novel “The Black Cliffs”. Based on the tr...
Everest charity premiere in Reykjavik sold out
66°North, Myndform, Rvk. Studios and Universal Pictures hosted a charity event in conjunction with the Icelandic movie premiere of Everest last Wednes...