“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: ...

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 ...

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.

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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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 ...