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 ...

“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 ...

They were a few dozen strangers lingering in the large gallery one weekday afternoon, some standing but many sitting or lying down, all attending at length to one thing. It wasn't the usual scene in a ...

Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy, a work by Ragnar Kjartansson, the Icelandic artist whose practice involves music, video, performance, installations, painting, drawing and more, is making its New ...