Composer Gudnadottir nominated for the 2017 Harpa award (Video)
Icelandic cellist and composer Hildur Gudnadottir has been nominated for the 2017 Harpa award with her score for Balthasar Kormakur’s fea...
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The Marshall house – A house for fishing industry turned Art dome
The so named Marshall House on the Reykavik harbour has been under renovation for the last two years, being prepped to receive the two most interestin...
Whispering Iceland – Icelandic landscape featured in multiply awarded time-lapse (Video)
Greek photographer Nick Kontostavlakis won Best Time-Laps award at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards in January with the stunning time-...
& other stories collaborate with Shoplifter (the artist)
New York-based Icelandic artist Hrafnhildur Arnardottir a.k.a. Shoplifter is the author of the & Other Stories “new co-lab contemporary art embrac...
Artist salary in 2017 – 1606 artist applied, 391 received
The annual artist salary was made public yesterday. Each fall artists in Iceland sit down and go over the year a head of them, make a plan for the yea...
Artist Ragnar Kjartansson among the twelve awarded the Order of the Falcon on New Years day
President Guðni Th. Johannesson, awarded twelve individuals the Order of the Falcon in an annual ceremony at the presidential residency Bessastadir ye...
Björk and Madonna call out sexism (Videos)
Voices of female musicians grow louder answering back and calling out the sexism in their industry. This month music giants Björk and Madonna both had...
Artists’ Christmas bazars popping up all over Reykjavik
A new (old) trend has developed in recent years in the city of Reykjavik as artists come together and make big salon exhibitions before Christmas with...