Dreamers Rise

Fourteen years ago, during a week in Iceland, I visited the Listasafn Íslands (National Gallery of Iceland), which was then housing an exhib...

For a commonplace book, notes on hotel rooms and the solitary travelers who visit them, sometimes only in the mind. Image: Joseph Cornell, U...

Something for me to look forward to: this Spanish translation of a book by the Italian writer Leonardo Piccione. The publisher's descri...

KK (his full name is Kristján Kristjánsson, and his initials are pronounced "cow cow") is an Icelandic singer-songwriter whose ...

A song by the young Icelandic musician Ásgeir Trausti . The title, I'm told, means something like "Summer Guest," and the song...

I saw most of this "documentary" by Etienne de France this summer at the Listasafns Íslands (National Gallery of Iceland) i...

The stone above, which lies on the island of Vi∂ey or Videy in Kollafjörður Bay across from the city of Reykjavík, Iceland, memorializes Óla...

If more proof were needed that the best things often turn up by accident, during a brief ride on a passenger ferry in Reykjavík the captain ...

Thórbergur Thórdarson, or Þórbergur Þórðarson to use the Icelandic form of his name, was born in 1888 on a turf farmstead named Hali in Suða...

The Listasafns Íslands (National Gallery of Iceland) is currently exhibiting a group of some fifteen paintings by an unknown artist or arti...