“In Iceland, feminism is a very big thing,” says Ragnar Kjartansson, who spoke to artnet News the night before flying from Reykjavik to San Francisco to stage his new durational performance, Romantic ...

When the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson was a teenager, he grew up listening to the UK post-punk, gothic-rock band The Cure. On the back of their album Wish was a quote from Percy Bysshe Shelley: ...

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Tucked away in ICA Boston's galleries, the video installation exhibit "RagnarKjartansson: Song" is easy to miss at first. But it would be a shame to overlook this particular exhibition. Organized by ...

San Francisco is getting a new organization dedicated to performance art. C Project, which will host site-specific events in a variety of nontraditional venues across the city, is the brainchild of ...

On paper, it sounded dreadful. An Icelandic artist would perform Franz Schubert's "An Die Musik" for four hours as part of his new exhibition, "Ragnar Kjartansson: Song," at the Institute of ...

Ragnar Kjartansson, “Death is Elsewhere” (2019) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 7-channel video installation (image courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s ...

The Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson will unveil a new work next February at the National Museum Cardiff, which will entail a five-week long performance of the popular Italian song Il cielo in una ...