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• Visionaire 57

  
  Lost In A Supermarket — Authority: 482
  To call Visionaire a magazine is like calling Lawrence of Arabia a movie. They take the medium and elevate it to another level — literally. Oftentimes the issues aren’t even books, printed on paper or even contain readable text. For instance, some “issues” have included the Sound Issue (53) which consisted ...
  6 days ago

• Ólafur Arnalds, Ljósið -- Video of the Day

  
  Spinner — Authority: 737
  Filed under: Video of the Day Artist: Ólafur Arnalds Video: Ljósið Highlight: The young Icelandic phenom uses beautiful, smoke-like arrows to match the pace of his gorgeous orchestral piece.
  1 week ago

• Icelandic president urged to say no to Icesave

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 528
  Over 7,000 people had, yesterday evening, already signed a petition from the In Defence Group, urging Icelandic president Olafur Ragnar Grimsson not to sign the expected Icesave contract with the UK and the Netherlands when it passes parliament. The group is trying to ensure that the Icesave law’s financial ...
  1 week ago

• Òlafur Arnalds - “Found Songs” - Borrow It

  
  melophobe - concert reviews and concert photos — Authority: 529
  Make no mistake, Ólafur Arnalds ’s Found Songs is classical music. While considerably less epic than albums from fellow Iceland natives Sigur Rós, Found Songs is intimately beautiful and will potentially intrigue those unfamiliar with its classical influences. But, ultimately, I’d rather listen to Chopin to ...
  1 week ago

• Suspicious share dealing investigated at Byr and MP banks

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 528
  The office of Iceland’s Special Prosecutor into the banking crisis yesterday carried out searches at the headquarters of Byr savings bank and MP Bank. The issue concerns the purchase, by a holding company called Exeter, of shares in Byr at a time in autumn 2008 when share dealing in Icelandic banks was officially ...
  2 weeks ago

• Iceland bank investigator freezes assets in case

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 528
  The office of Iceland’s special prosecutor into the banking crisis has for the first time used its powers to freeze personal assets. Stod 2 News reported last night that the office of Olafur Thor Hauksson has ordered the immediate freezing of Baldur Gudlaugsson’s accounts. Gudlaugsson is the former permanent ...
  3 weeks ago

• Art Basel Miami Beach: il mondo del contemporaneo punta i riflettori sulla Florida

  
  DaringToDo.com — Authority: 146
  Una gigantesca giostra di mondanità e cultura, di cocktail party ed affari, di arte, mercato e di celebrità indifferentemente posate dall’una o dall’altra parte della vetrina. Questo ed altro in Art Basel Miami Beach , ottava edizione dell’expò in programma dal 3 al 6 dicembre in quel di Miami, Florida. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Completed in 2008, Tadao Ando created a guesthouse/gallery in...

  
  VERY LOUD — Authority: 482
  Completed in 2008, Tadao Ando created a guesthouse/gallery in Tokyo for Takeo Obayashi. The walls are covered in platinum-glazed tiles by Olafur Eliasson. If you look at other photos, the outside is quite mute. I love that the interior courtyard is anything but. ( architecturaldigest )
  3 weeks ago

• Dead Artists’ Soap Box and Polaroids Go to Auction

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 687
  If you’ve ever wanted to stand on Andy Warhol’s soap box or paper your walls with someone else’s party photos, tomorrow’s your chance at Phillips de Pury’s contemporary art sale . In addition to one of Warhol’s wooden Brillo boxes, valued up to $900k, the smaller-than-normal auction features Dash ...
  4 weeks ago

• Waterfalls Artist Has a New Bridge to Sell You

  
  ArtsBeat — Authority: 784
  Olafur Eliasson, who created the temporary waterfalls that sprung up in New Yorks East River last year, is at work on a project that will give the residents of Copenhagen a different way of looking at a nearby body of water.
  4 weeks ago

• Beauty

  
  colectiva — Authority: 519
  I had a chance to interact with Olafur Eliasson’s Beauty a couple months back, over at the MCA Chicago , and have to admit the experience was nothing short of amazing! As is the case with his exhibits, spectators are encouraged to take their time and interact with each piece as much as possible… with this ...
  4 weeks ago

• Generation gap in support for President of Iceland

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 528
  Around a third of respondents to a recent survey want Iceland’s president, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson to resign from his post. In the survey carried out by Birfrost University Research Department on behalf of Stod 2 News, respondents were asked how strongly they agreed or disagreed with the statement that President ...
  4 weeks ago

• Olafur Eliasson: Playing with space and light

  
  Talkitect.com — Authority: 117
  An artist whose work bridges art and architecture, Olafur Eliasson has an inspiring way of looking at space and causing people to interact with and perceive the spaces around them in a unique way. His work uses natural elements and phenomena - water, light, fog, ice, etc. - to express his ideas, while focusing on ...
  5 weeks ago

• Iceland bank crash investigator in the FT

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 528
  British newspaper The Financial Times is running an article about Olafur Thor Hauksson, Iceland’s Special Prosecutor investigating the banking crisis. In the article Eva Joly, the famous fraud investigator and Hauksson’s key international adviser, complimented him as “very hard working and very honest”. Joly ...
  5 weeks ago

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