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Artist Spotlight: Iceland-Based Visual Artist Lukas Bury Creatively engaging with his past and identity, Iceland-based painter and visual artist Lukas Bury challenges his own experiences through painting. Influenced by growing up in Germany (Bonn and Berlin) while having a Polish background, as well as now living in Iceland, national identification with objects has become one of Bury’s main motifs.   With references to still life and kitsch, Bury’s paintings represent the elements in our every day life that often go unnoticed but are crucial in identifying with a specific culture or ti...

If you’ve seen Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, there’s one character that stands out above all others: Olaf Yohansson, better known as the Jaja Ding Dong Guy. Played by Icelandic actor Hannes Óli Ágústsson, this surly resident of a small fishing village has but one goal in life: to hear the song “Jaja Ding Dong,” over and over again. Sadly the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences determined that they’d rather hear Eurovision’s “Húsavík,” which was nominated for a Best Original Song Oscar, while “Jaja Ding Dong” was cruelly stri...

There's even a dedicated kids' section on Kanopy. Kanopy is a streaming service, available at many public and university libraries throughout New Zealand, that allows the free streaming of six titles monthly for those who possess a library card. After scanning through the thousands of critically-acclaimed movies, inspiring documentaries, educational videos and award-winning classic and foreign films available on demand, Stuff has come up with this list of six titles we believe are well worth checking out – many of them unavailable to watch elsewhere. Supplied Blue is the Warmest Colour, ...

Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) detected around 3,300 earthquakes. The earthquake swarm centers around Reykjanes Peninsula, a densely populated region south of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik. Authorities now expect one of two volcanoes in the peninsula, Mount Keilir and Mount Fagradalsfjall, to erupt in the next few days, which would be the first in the region in 800 years. Earthquake swarm forbodes volcanic eruption The swarm started on Feb. 24 with a 5.7 magnitude earthquake, the largest to date, and several rumblers followed since. Authorities are currently analyzing sensor and sat...

Many in Grindavik have visited relatives, spent time in summer houses, or even rented a hotel room in Reykjavik, the capital, just to get a break and a good night's sleep.