Author: Richard P. Foley
Diving Into Metamorphosis
“We wanted to take the legends of the sea up to the surface with us, not just to show fashion…
Reykjavík Runway
Assistants Of FashionReykjavík Runway, Iceland’s first fashion consultancy, has provided a fantastic design competition with a twist: where a group…
Metaphors To Save You At Sea
When the unpredictability and trepidation of the sea becomes symbolic for a nation’s political saga, it’s not bewildering that several…
A Lost Horse Found In Reykjadam
The Lost Horse Gallery has moved from the old converted stable at Skólastræti 1 and found a new home on…
The Kids Are Doing It For Themselves…
A revival has occurred in artist run spaces after the closing of many exciting galleries such as the Dwarf Gallery,…
Playing Around in the Bed of Roses
“Life isn’t just a game- it’s also a bed of roses…” is an odd title for an exhibition, although when…
Fiction Conflicting With Reality
I spent the day at the Kópavogur Museum of Natural History with artist Sigurrós Svava Ólafsdóttir as she explained the…
What Will We Remember?
The annual Iceland Academy of The Arts show at Kjarvalsstaðir was another diverse range of innovative designs and artwork, divided…
A Reconstruction of Thoughts
“Parallax,” by the artist Elín Hansdóttir, will be showing at the Reykjavík Art Museum until the 19th of May. The…
Ipseity – Abeyance
As part of the Northern Lights Festival, the Nordic House has been hosting the group exhibition “Ipseity- Abeyance”. The exhibition…
Seething Kraum
The popular Icelandic design shop, Kraum, was opened in 2007, a collaborative effort of some 30 designers to produce a…
Bus 51 To Hveragerði – An Exciting New Option In Travel
Since the 2nd of January, the city bus company Strætó has provided the towns of Hveragerði and Selfoss with a…
The Scandinavian
The Scandinavian and its modern interpretation of traditional Nordic recipes are bound to become a small tourist haven, not to…
Make food not bombs
An alternative restaurant every Saturday between 1pm and 5pm would be “Make food not Bombs” which for the past few…
How To Look Fabulous in a Financial Depression
Inevitably times will be harder for the people of Iceland. It seems the only appropriate thing to do is to…