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IN PICTURES: Sykur & The Mystical Crowd At Airwaves Day Two
Our photographer Art Bicnick continues frantically capturing through the magical medium that is photography. Without further ado, we present to you: Art Bicnick’s Fresh Shots From Airwaves Thursday! Check it out!
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Ongoing Now: ‘Looking in – Sculptures and Models’ by Katrín Sigurðardóttir
Katrín Sigurðardóttir is one of Iceland’s most successful and well-known contemporary artists. Her works often play on scale, shrinking down buildings, rooms or landscapes to trick the eye and befuddle the mind, and transplanting or splicing locations in unexpected ways. Katrín represented…
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It’s The Small Things That Matter
Cory Arcangel is buzzing with energy, as one might expect just days before the opening of his first Icelandic solo exhibition. I meet the mild-mannered American artist—now a few years shy of his fortieth birthday, but as youthful in look and attitude…
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Bars & Beers & Food & Fun In February
There are plenty of fun, food-themed events going on in the latter half of February. On February 23-26 you can partake in the Reykjavík Bar Summit, a new addition to February’s orgy of food and drink festivals, thought to merge the European…
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Lights! Camera! Winter!
Reykjavík’s Winter Lights Festival commenced yesterday. It seems like a fun event, with lots of nice stuff going on. Like tonight’s Museum Night, which involves basically every Reykjavík museum staying open, for free, until midnight, with special events scattered all over. Tomorrow, there’s the…
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Cory Arcangel Brings Cutting-Edge Digital Art To Reykjavík
Acclaimed American artist Cory Arcangel will open his solo show today at Hafnarhusið. His exhibition, entitled All The Small Things, consists of reworked versions of his “greatest hits” of the last fifteen years, combined with a new series of adapted foam pool…
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Dark Music, Reality-TV Art Shows And Punk Rock!
Have you checked out our fancy new listings website yet? It’s so fancy! Take a moment to browse and see if you can’t spot any cool events you’d like to partake in this weekend. If you don’t have the time or whatever, here’s a…
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Meet The Venues
So you’re browsing through the Airwaves schedule trying to get a feel for your evening and while you know some of the bands at each place you’re really thinking, “Hey, what’s the vibe like in this place? Is this a venue I…
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Best Of Reykjavík 2014 (Photo Gallery)
Once a year, we like to take a step back and celebrate our little city. It’s not that Reykjavík is a city without problems, or that it’s a place that doesn’t have plenty of ways in which it could improve. This probably…
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Best Of Reykjavík 2014: Activities & Fun-Times
Once a year, we like to take a step back and celebrate our little city. It’s not that Reykjavík is a city without problems, or that it’s a place that doesn’t have plenty of ways in which it could improve. This probably…
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Reykjavík Grapevine’s Podcast: Airwaves Sunday Edition
Wohoo! It is Sunday! We made it! Almost. Your audio-loving friends, the omniscient Grapevine Airwaves Podcast Team, has been rolling from venue to venue throughout Saturday. We bring you the best bits from the gigantic line-up and tell you tips on how…
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Night At The Museum
I don’t believe you can underestimate the importance of fun in a live show. It’s probably a cliché but if performers look like they’re having fun, there’s no doubt it rubs off on those around. Of course it takes more than this…
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Dirty Projectors Whip Up A Masterpiece
Prinspóló have been going a long while now, and in that time they have perfected an Icelandic version of the lo-fi college-rock sound, a bit like the sweet-hearted early days of Yo La Tengo. They’re innately loveable, but I’ve always felt slight…
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BREAKING NEWS: Django Django Cancelled!
Bummerino! Scottish jangle-rockers Django Django have had to cancel their official Airwaves gig tonight at Harpa. Their drummer has fallen ill and is unable to play. This is truly unfortunate and we wish the man a speedy recovery. On the bright side,…
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Iceland Airwaves: Thursday – A Clash Magazine perspective
Words by Matthew Bennett & Joe Zadeh. Photo by Birta Rán. As Anglo-metropolitan muppets, our start in Iceland couldn’t have been much more of a birth of fire. Or more aptly; wind. Fierce wind that could slice your face like young cheese.…
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Chilly Winds Don’t Blow
“Holy fucking Christ,” I said without hearing myself say it, the words sucked right out of my mouth. It was not just the wind—violent, subarctic, merciless—that assailed me from all directions and angles, rendering it equally difficult to inhale as to exhale.…
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Technical Difficulties
The Sequences festival was formally launched a week ago, on Friday October 30th. I had heard that major sponsors had been backing out throughout last year due to the financial crisis. I don’t know if this is true, but it would certainly…
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The Carnegie Art Award 2006
An exhibition of works nominated for the prestigious Carnegie Art Awards is currently on display at the Reykjavík Art Museum, and will be until August 20th, so if you feel in the mood to take in the best Scandinavia has to offer…