Posted on 03 February 2012. Tags: Hotel in Downtown Reykjavik, Hotel in Reykjavik, Reykjavik Art Festival, Reykjavik Hotel, Summer events in Reykjavik
Hotel Odinsve, a popular
hotel in downtown Reykjavik, is preparing to accommodate a vast amount of visitors in Iceland for this year’s cultural summer events, including the Reykjavik Art Festival, and the National Day of Iceland.
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Posted in Art, Business, Culture, General, Iceland, International, Leisure, Travel
Posted on 03 February 2012. Tags: anders behring breivik, art, Denmark, manifesto, Norway, play, sensitivity, theatre
A Copenhagen theatre company has courted controversy after penning a play based on the convictions of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik.
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Posted in Art, Culture, Denmark, MBL, Norway
Posted on 29 January 2012. Tags: art, h&m, Iceland, listaháskóli, retail, shopping, students, university
Second-year students at the Art University of Iceland have caused a stir in Reykjavík by putting advertisements in empty shop windows claiming that H&M and other famous brands will be opening up soon in Iceland.
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Posted in Art, Business, Iceland, International, MBL
Posted on 26 January 2012.
Reykjavik Art Museum, Icelandic Art Center and the Icelandic Academy of the Arts TALK it through. The American Embassy in Iceland supports TALK Series.
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Posted in Art, Iceland, United States
Posted on 16 January 2012. Tags: baltasar kormákur, cinema, contraband, film, Iceland, usa
Contraband, the new Hollywood movie by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, was this weekend's highest grossing film in the USA, if initial figures are accurate.
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Posted in Art, Business, Iceland, International, Leisure, MBL, United States
Posted on 15 January 2012. Tags: Finland, guggenheim, helsinki, museum
A new proposal has moved the Finnish capital closer to hosting a new Guggenheim museum for architecture and design.
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Posted in Art, Business, Culture, Finland, General, International, Leisure, MBL
Posted on 11 January 2012. Tags: art, choir, Iceland, music, poetry, Reykjavik
The Icelandic Sound Poetry Choir will give a free concert at the Living Art Museum, Reykjavík this Friday January at 20.00.
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Posted in Art, Iceland, Leisure, MBL
Posted on 02 December 2011. Tags: characters, death, game of thrones, Iceland, season 2
Icelandic television got a Game of Thrones scoop this week when the show's producers, who are currently filming in Iceland, revealed some unexpected news about Series 2 characters.
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Posted on 28 November 2011. Tags: books celia lund, Canada, eric the red, fiction, Greenland, leifur eiriksson, North America, usa, Vikings, vinland
New Harbors New Hopes is a novel by Celia Lund and the follow-on to the enjoyable Square Sails and Dragons
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Posted in Art, Canada, General, Greenland, Leisure, Lifestyle, MBL, Scandinavia, United States
Posted on 14 November 2011. Tags: acting, extras, fame, filming, game of thrones, Iceland, shoot, television
A thousand people applied to appear as extras in the upcoming Game of Thrones film shoot in Iceland.
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Posted in Art, General, Iceland, Leisure, MBL, Travel, United States