Author: Hannah Jane Cohen
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Almar Atlason’s Party Funeral: An Exhibition Of Beauty, Suffering & A Colourful Daze
“The paintings were all done on La Réunion, which is an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, just…
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Fancies: Hafey Viktoría Hallgrímsdóttir
Fancies is a Grapevine series where we highlight an individual with supreme style. Our latest subject is Hafey Viktoría Hallgrímsdóttir…
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Ask An Expert: How Does One Celebrate Shabbat In The Midnight Sun?
If you celebrate a weekly holiday that’s set to begin at sundown and end at nightfall, how do you do…
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PHOTOS! We Visited Geldingadalir And Found A (Beautiful) Inferno
On Friday, our team journeyed to the eruption at Geldingallir at night to capture the newest fissures on camera in…
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Horror-Scopes: WHAT VOLCANO ARE YOU?
The Grapevine’s team of amateur astrologists recently read online that people who like astrology also really like personality quizzes. In…
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Gods Of Iceland: Jötnar, A Sick af Power Metal Band
Superpowers: Are giants. Ride wolves. Weaknesses: Veins that run with toxic blood which is fatal to their own kind. Modern…
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Artist/Curator/Friend: The Undefinable Relationship Of Emilie Dalum And Michael Richardt
“For the past half a year, I’ve been writing a lot about what is going on here, who we are…
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The Culmination Of Aeons Of Serendipity: Flying To Geldingadalur, Iceland’s Newest Eruption (feat. Plato)
We really don’t stand a chance, do we? With calm surrender to my fate, these were the words that entered…
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The Dawn Of Eydís Evensen: Presenting A Composer And A Whirlwind Emotional Journey
From the northern Icelandic town of Blönduós emerged 27-year-old composer Eydís Evensen, who burst onto the scene this December with…
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Track By Track: ‘Hvítir Hrafnar’ By dady
dady—formerly Dadykewl—has been on a three-year hiatus since his last effort ‘Klámstjarna’. But thankfully, Iceland’s resident lovestruck, sullen, smooth af…
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Stepping Into The Sun: RAKEL Is Here With A Dreamy, Escapist Debut
“The whole EP is about feeling a little bit unsure of what you’re doing in life,” Rakel Sigurðardóttir says softly….
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A Harp, A Human, And A Machine: Úlfur Hansson’s Segulharpa Births A New Sound
“When it worked and I finally got the string sound working correctly, it was pure magic,” Úlfur Hansson says—a big…
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1600 Lives: The 1600 Niðurfelld Nauðgunarmál Project Tackles The Failures Of The Law Through Art
TW: Discussions of rape and sexual violence. Counting from 1 to 1,600 would take you 26 minutes and 40 seconds….
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We Flew Over The New Volcano At Geldingadalur
Today, we took to the skies with Norðurflug Helicopter Tours to check out the eruption at Geldingadalur from a new…
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Hear Ye! The Gospel Of Reykjavík Galleries: Thine Guide To Locale Arte
Jesus Christ (a figure you might know from art history), there are a lot of new galleries in Reykjavík right…
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Austurlands Food Coop Sushi Pop-Up: Just Eat It!
Remember that landslide in Seyðisfjörður in December? Austurlands Food Coop, the Seyðisjörður initiave that seeks to bring hitherto unavailable fresh…
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Fancies: Diana Breckmann
Fancies is a Grapevine series where we highlight an individual with supreme style. Our latest subject is Diana Breckmann, a…
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Sensory Overload: The Delicious Cacophony Of Susan_creamcheese
Enter the fantasy: You’re on a weirdly positive bath salts trip. It’s the peak of the party and the noise…
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Fancies: Anthony Hoang Duy Nguyen
Fancies is a Grapevine series where we highlight an individual with supreme style. Our latest subject is Anthony Hoang Duy…
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Top Five Volcanoes Someone Should Write A Book About: A Symposium By Valur & Hannah Jane
by Hannah Jane Cohen and Valur Grettisson
You would think that a nation that is both as obsessed with literature and as seismically active as Iceland would…
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The Reykjavík Tattoo Guide a.k.a. Where To Get Your Grapevine Tattoo
The last few years have seen a boom of tattoo parlours around Reykjavík. In fact, there’s now so many that…
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Huginn’s Artist Playlist: A Mixtape To Make You Feel It All
Huginn plays those weirdly special easy-going autotune hip-hop jams that kind of work in every situation. It’s actually kind of…
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‘Yes, a falling tree makes a sound (and it has a lot to say)’ Serves Up Feminist Queer Insect AI Fantasies
Imagine a utopian world where gender roles are inconceivable, alien life forms live among us, interplanetary travel is dirt cheap…
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The Rules Of A New Dimension: Kristín Morthens’ ‘Gegnumtrekkur’ Exists In Another World
‘Gegnumtrekkur’—the title of Kristín Morthens’ newest exhibition at Þula—directly translates to ‘the Bernoulli Principle.’ It’s a physics term that describes…
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Falafel For The Soul: Chickpea Brings A Homey Touch To The Downtown Dining Scene
Tucked in next to downtown’s Kronan supermarket lies Chickpea, a new bijoux vegetarian eatery. Walk by too fast and you…