News Iceland Culture: Iceland has a thriving arts and culture scene, here's your exclusive guide
Nan Coulter / Special Contributor Time seems to obey a different order in Iceland. It is not just that the dark hours of winter give way to the near manic perpetual summer sun. Nor is it the closeness ...
News Iceland Culture: New archaeological layer discovered at L’Anse aux Meadows
“Ecofacts from cultural waste sandwiched between layers ... for Indigenous sites,” he told Ars Technica. In Greenland and Iceland, archaeologists studying Norse sites also tend to study ...
News Iceland Culture: Who's Still Hunting Whales? For The First Time in 17 Years, One Country Opts Out
Several countries have issued scientific permits for killing whales—including Japan, Norway and Iceland—and the ban still allows aboriginal communities to hunt whales as part of their culture. The ban ...
News Iceland Culture: More than 'ice': A look at Iceland's feats in world rankings and role at UN rights council
Earning perfect 10 in the electoral process and political culture, Iceland ranked second overall among the world’s democracies in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2018 Democracy Index. The ...
News Iceland Culture: Matt Hamon's 'Ratljóst' captures unique light of Rockies, Iceland
Photographer Matt Hamon titled his latest exhibition, "Ratljóst," an Icelandic word that translates ... at the Montana Museum of Art & Culture, "return(s) the viewer to the 19th-century romantic ...
News Iceland Culture: Eliasson recreates Icelandic nature in London’s Tate Modern
With light, mist and rain, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson brings nature into the Tate Modern for a new London exhibition that appeals to visitors’ senses while, at points, disorientating them ...
News Iceland Culture: Nicola Sturgeon to meet Iceland´s Prime Minister in...
Speaking ahead of the Prime Minister’s visit, Ms Sturgeon said: “Scotland and Iceland have much in common with many historic and cultural links. I’m very pleased that the Prime Minister’s visit will ...
News Iceland Culture: USM hosts Icelandic artist Ólöf Nordal
In the online announcement for the presentation, USM art professor Jan Piribeck said Nordal’s visit would “contribute to Icelandic cultural connections and the Maine North Atlantic Institute,” the new ...
News Iceland Culture: Why Is This Passover Different From All Others? In Iceland, It’s Because The Rabbi Lives There.
The eclecticism of the seder’s attendees reflects a community just beginning to find its footing as a permanent feature in Iceland’s social and religious culture, in which a critical ...
