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Obituary: News Photography
How did you select the photos for the exhibition? What was the guiding light? I didn’t really have a guiding…
Last Call: Sirkus is Closing
“Of course I’ll miss this place. I mean, where else can you find such a good vibe on a Sunday…
Icelanders Don’t Care About Satan
Stulli and Gauti sit opposite me and sip their coffee. Black coffee. Stulli is in the midst of outlining the…
One Little Nigger
“We never [were] niggers, that is a word used to describe our own wretchedness. And we perpetuate it now.”(1) Who…
The Last Days of the Labels
The music industry is facing some troubled waters. To be precise, the business side of the music industry is in…
Elves in Cultural Vocabulary
Terry Gunnel is a professor of Folkloristics at the Unicersity of Iceland. He recently initiated a survey to explore how…
Awakening the Couch Potatoes
In retrospect Iceland has never lacked activism, and many prideful moments of Icelandic history are examples of social disobedience. In…
A Buffet of Quality Icelandic Designs
The interior design exhibition and trade show ‘Home and Design’ takes place for the second time at the new Laugardalshöll…
Iceland-China
by Ian Watson
As Iceland and China moved closer towards signing a free trade agreement, the state television news came up with a…
Five Classic Books About Moving to the North Atlantic
by Ian Watson
You know the story already: a comfortably off writer buys an old farmhouse in France or Italy, drags their sceptical…
Belgium, an Unlikely Choice
by Zoë Robert
It is common knowledge, or, at least it should be common knowledge, that Belgium is home to the best beer…
Spreading the Love
The Icelandic Love Corporation is celebrating its 11-year anniversary with an extensive retrospective inside the Reykjavík Art Museum on Tryggvagata….
Icelandic Art
For centuries, Icelanders were certainly not the culturally refined and creative lot they pride themselves on being today. This is…
National Museum of Iceland
Established in 1863, the National Museum ofIceland has been located in a spacious buildingon Suðurgata since the 1950s. The museum’scollection…
Quest for the Icelandic Wool
I found the following assertion on one of the websites dedicated to the Icelandic wool: ‘Wool is cool.’ Unchallengeable, indeed….
It’s a Lonely Old Town
So, you’re wandering around bustling downtown Reykjavík, dodging prams, nibbling harðfiskur, running into everyone you know and enjoying the vibrant…
An Enlightening Night
by Nick Candy
Kristín Magnús has been running her company Travelling Theatre for over 40 years, taking shows all over the U.S. and…
Roots Tourism in Hofsós
by Ian Watson
At the Icelandic Emigration Centre in Hofsós, Nelson Gerrard shows me a thick, heavy book that he wrote about the…
Mountain Pioneers
When I first scheduled an interview with Icelandic Mountain Guides (IMG), my intention was simply to direct the spotlight on…
Classic Toys Return
Back in the old days, Icelandic children couldn’t run out to the next over-stuffed toyshop to stock up on plastic…
The Einar Jónsson Museum
The first art museum in Reykjavík, the Einar Jónsson museum, opened in 1923. The history of this beautiful building goes…