Artists Bryndís Björnsdóttir and Steinunn Gunnlaugsdóttirand said they wanted to symbolically launch “The First White Mother in America” into space.
Iceland
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For An Icelandic Conceptual Art Pioneer, Home Was His Inspiration
Birgir Andrésson was steeped in Iceland’s ways and lore, landscape and history. It was also his complex subject and an energizing force.
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A Group Exhibition in Iceland Trades Local Character for International Appeal
Many of the works in Iðavöllur are big and chock-full of issues and socially engaged ideas, like so much art elsewhere.
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Ragna Róbertsdóttir’s Landscapes in Lava
The Icelandic artist fashions sculptures and wall works from the primary substance of her volcanic and volatile homeland.
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Shedding Light on the Messy Beauty of the Arctic
Artist Nancy Campbell’s book The Library of Ice draws parallels between ecological breakdown and the loss of human culture.
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A Visit to the Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum
AKUREYRI, Iceland — If you set out from Reykjavík northbound on Route 1, the road that rings around most of Iceland, you will, after give or take five hours, find yourself in Akureyri.
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A Library of Glacial Water in Iceland
STYKKISHÓLMUR, Iceland — It’s hard to miss Vatnasafn, or the Library of Water, if you know what you’re looking for.
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Wanted: One Corpse for Art
When a person dies, his loved ones typically deliver the body to a morgue before it reaches the final destination; Icelandic artist Snorri Ásmundsson is requesting that someone take a detour on that route to participate in his art.
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Where Primordial Lava Flows into Ice
Iceland, more than most places on the planet, frequently reveals the cataclysmic activity below its crust through volcanoes, fissures, and geothermal pools.
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Why I Don’t Buy the Premise of Christoph Büchel’s Icelandic Mosque Pavilion
I’ve been hesitant to embrace Christoph Büchel’s project for the Icelandic Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale from the beginning.
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Iceland’s Mosque Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Will Be Shut Down
Venetian officials plan to close the Icelandic Pavilion of the 2015 Venice Biennale, which features a working mosque that is part of an artwork by Swiss-Icelandic artist Christoph Büchel.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Iceland jails geyser-dyeing “landscape painter,” artist loses canvases left in alley, and offensive anti-homeless signs irk Illinoisans.