Sigur Rós announces musical festival in Reykjavik at the end of the year (Video)
Sigur Rós is organizing a six-day art festival in Reykjavik’s concert hall, Harpa. The event is planned in the end of December between Christma...
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Trolls trolling Venice – Ugh and Bõögâr along with artist Egill Sæbjörnsson represent Iceland at the Venice Bienale
The Icelandic artist Egill Sæbjörnsson has employed to two fictional trolls to stage his exhibition in Iceland’s pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale....
Thoughts about Iceland’s casual sex culture
Iceland is one of the most sexually liberated societies on the planet earth according to a blog on the Rooster. The blog goes on to state that by all ...
Composer Gudnadottir nominated for the 2017 Harpa award (Video)
Icelandic cellist and composer Hildur Gudnadottir has been nominated for the 2017 Harpa award with her score for Balthasar Kormakur’s fea...
The Marshall house – A house for fishing industry turned Art dome
The so named Marshall House on the Reykavik harbour has been under renovation for the last two years, being prepped to receive the two most interestin...
The Ninth DesignMarch coming to a close today
Today is the last chance to catch a glimpse of DesignMarch, an annual design festival in Iceland organized for the ninth time this year. This has been...
Arabic sources describe the Vikings as beautiful but filthy
Icelandic historian Thorir Jonsson Hraundal has devoted his studies to observations in original Arab texts about the Vikings according to an article i...
Whispering Iceland – Icelandic landscape featured in multiply awarded time-lapse (Video)
Greek photographer Nick Kontostavlakis won Best Time-Laps award at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards in January with the stunning time-...