“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 ...
Kjartansson’s latest work suggests the impossibility of returning to the past, and therefore captures something unique about ...
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: ...
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 ...
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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 ...
In this extract from her new book, Maria "Masha" Alyokhina Alyokhina recalls her first meeting with the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson ...
The artist Ragnar Kjartansson has built his reputation around endurance works, and a Milanese church will host his latest: the same romantic tune repeated hour after hour, day after day, for a month.