Ásmundur Ásmundsson
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Undoing The Romanticisation Of The Starving Artist
Examining the realities of making a living as a professional artist in Iceland Typical party conversation, any evening at random between 1997 and 2025: Random guest: So, what do you do for a living? Me: I’m a professional visual artist. Random guest:…
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The Feminine Ways
At the beginning of a new year, it is absolutely necessary to take an honest inventory of the preceding one’s victories and mishaps in the field of the fine arts. The Reykjavík Grapevine is not the right platform for an honest and…
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Beauty And Its Discontents
Rather than summarise 2014’s debates in brief, as the end of the year approaches, I want to pay due attention to one particular dispute ignored by this column until now. It actually started in 2011 and has to do with, as it…