Ragnar Kjartansson
How Artists Are Using Music to Seduce, Confound (and Entertain) Us
From primordial incantations to operatic melodrama to hip-hop beats, artists are exploiting the elemental language of music to communicate across cultural boundaries
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55th Venice Biennale
Twenty years ago, "Cardinal Points of Art" was the theme of the 45th Venice Biennale, and the compass was its symbol.
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A Gallery of Venice Biennale Artists
Converging on Venice from Iraq, Iceland, Azerbaijan, and beyond, they came, they showed—and they posed for photos
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Ragnar Kjartansson
Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson's nine-screen installation The Visitors (2012) is a pop-music video in extremis, breaking every protocol for the genre.
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Roving Eye: Religion in Contemporary Art
At a recent dinner hosted by the gallery Luhring Augustine, I spent the evening talking about God with Ragnar Kjartansson. In God, the Icelandic artist's 2007 film installation, Kjartansson appears…
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Performa Playbill: Ragnar Kjartansson
I anticipated sitting through no more than a half-hour of Ragnar Kjartansson's 12-hour Mozart marathon, Bliss, a Performa 11 commission presented at New York's Abrons Arts Center on Saturday, Nov…
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Roving Eye: Eric Shiners Week in Review
For the last several weeks I have been among Icelanders. Specifically, I've mingled with the friends and family of artist Ragnar Kjartansson, whose excellent show of work inspired by music is on vie…
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Venice Preview: Ragnar Kjartansson
When Ragnar Kjartansson came to Luhring Augustine, his New York gallery, last March to discuss his project for the 53rd Venice Biennale, he was wearing a dark pinstriped suit and a creamy retro-patter…
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