Melting Iceland Since 2005
To celebrate the five-year anniversary of me up and moving my ceramics workshop to Iceland from Ireland, I am curating a retrospective of some of my favourite pieces. The mission [
Art Love-In
Villa Reykjavík to host galleries from all over EuropeIn July, the art world will come to Reykjavík, and some musicians too. Commercial galleries from all over Europe are uprooti
Art In Translation
An international conference on language and the arts From May 27 to 29th, around sixty people from twenty-one countries (eruptions permitting) will gather at the Nordic House and t
Let the Farting Commence!
The good people behind the artFart festival will be writing us occasionally this summer, giving a sneak preview this year’s programme and some insight into the inner-workings of
Let There Be Art!
Reykjavík Arts Festival Although it may at times seem as though this city is a constant carnival of arts and entertainment, Reykjavík still finds the time to specially designate
High and Low
If the purpose of art is to inspire, where is all that inspiration to be found in Reykjavík? Certainly not in its art galleries. Wandering around the streets of the […]
Making Little Guys Accessible In A Small Country
Kino Klúbbur’s Rebecca Moran has a mission Icelanders like to brag about per capita records. Most published books in the world, most coffee consumed, highest suicide rates, rah
2009 In Pictures
These images are from a series titled “Home”. They summon up feelings about a distant idea of home and one that is deteriorating. They are all taken this past summer [&
A Year Of Waiting, Undercurrent, Countdown, Festivals And No Revolution
The 2009 artworld discussed, somewhatThe Grapevine somehow managed to convince two of its favourite people from the local artworld – prominent artist Haraldur Jónsson and fellow
The Death Of A Poem
Poetry is a culture heavily impregnated with the idolisation of poets. Popular knowledge of poetry stops where the anecdotes about poets end and the poetry begins. We remember Rimb
Knitting for Christmas
December is pretty much universally recognised as the most difficult month of the year, what with the cold, the dark and the inescapable, mind-numbing ever-present Christmas music.
Beauty Swift: Generation Revolution
“This book is meant for enlightened individuals in any age group and in various states of maturity. You can read explanations of the ways of life and how they have […]
IT HAS TO BE FUN
In September, Japanese pop art legend Yoshimoto Nara visited Iceland to open his exhibit “Crated Rooms.” Heavily influenced by the anime and manga movements of the 60s, Nara ma
Artist Vs. Artist
Egill Sæbjörnsson and Davíð Örn Halldórsson are both prominent young artists that have been raising eyebrows all over for a while now. With good reason, too, as their art is,
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 [&he
Art In Sequence, Real-time!
The Sequences arts festival has been pretty awesome these past few years. It is a unique offspring of the big happy Icelandic arts family, and it takes place every October. [&helli
Your Post-Collapse Guide to the Movies
It is a sad fact of life that outside the glorious ten days of the Reykjavík International Film Festival, almost everything being served in the cinemas here is standard Hollywood
Metaphors To Save You At Sea
When the unpredictability and trepidation of the sea becomes symbolic for a nation’s political saga, it’s not bewildering that several contemporary Icelandic artists feel pertu