In preparation for its upcoming Ragnar Kjartansson solo exhibition, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, in Washington, D.C. is holding a casting call for female musicians to perform…
On shows at the Zabludowicz Collection, FILET, SPACE, Chisenhale, Brewer Street Car Park, and Tramway
From primordial incantations to operatic melodrama to hip-hop beats, artists are exploiting the elemental language of music to communicate across cultural boundaries
Twenty years ago, "Cardinal Points of Art" was the theme of the 45th Venice Biennale, and the compass was its symbol.
Converging on Venice from Iraq, Iceland, Azerbaijan, and beyond, they came, they showed—and they posed for photos
Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson's nine-screen installation The Visitors (2012) is a pop-music video in extremis, breaking every protocol for the genre.
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…
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…
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…