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Happening This Week: Fest Afrika Reykjavík
Reykjavík is a small city. Attend one of the many music festivals, join in a summer art residency, or just walk up and down Laugavegur a couple times and you are already starting to recognize faces. Because of its size the potential…
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Happening Now: ‘The World Is An Enigma’ At Verksmiðjan á Hjalteyri
Pierre Coulibeuf, a French visual artist and filmmaker, exhibits four magical video installations focusing on the often opaque relationship between an individual and the world. The video pieces, made between 1995 and 2008, are inspired by various artistic collaborators, in fields from…
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Happening Tonight: The Tin Drum – Sin Fang
Everybody loves everything Sindri Már Sigfússon does. Seabear, Gangly, Sin Fang, etc.—if Sindri’s involved, everyone’s gonna love it. Unusually enough, the Icelandic answer to RZA’s popularity is not the result of nefarious nepotism or shady back-alley deals—it’s because he continues to makes…
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Ongoing Now: ‘Yearning For Space’
This exhibition features works by the late sculptors Ásmundur Sveinsson (1893-1982), Gerður Helgadóttir (1928-1975), Jón Gunnar Árnason (1931-1989), and Sigurjón Ólafsson (1908-1982), and posits modernist art as a reflection of technological and scientific explorations during the Space Race of the 1950s and…
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Ongoing Now: ‘A Journalist And Her Camera: The Photography Of Vilborg Harðardóttir’
This photography exhibit showcases the work of the indefatigable Vilborg Harðardóttir (1935-2002). Known for her work as a photographer for the newspaper Þjóðviljinn, her role in Iceland’s Rauðsokkur (“Red Stockings”) feminist movement, and her time as an MP, Vilborg played a key…