"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful." Estragon, Waiting for Godot, 1948/1949. Repetition is underrated. So, is a long running time. In all the arts—fine art, music, dance, theatre ...

Ragnar Kjartansson was stuck in traffic. It was the opening night of his Metropolitan Museum of Art solo show, “Death Is Elsewhere,” and the Icelandic artist had agreed to meet with artnet News before ...

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 ...

Every five years, Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson makes a video in which his mother repeatedly spits on him—for art’s sake. It was his debut piece when he filmed it in 2000, and he’s since ...

If you’re a fan of Sigur Ros and slow TV—the Scandinavian craze of seven-hour continuous shots of train and ship journeys, burning fireplaces, knitting hands, and birdfeeders—you’ll love Ragnar ...

Ragnar Kjartansson, “Bangemand (Scaredman),” a live performance as part of the exhibition An Epic Waste of Love and Understanding at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark (all photos AX ...

“Ragnar Kjartansson,” the first major survey of the work of the internationally acclaimed Icelandic artist, runs Oct. 14–Jan. 8, 2017, at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The ...

“Ragnar Kjartansson: Scenes from Western Culture,”through Sept. 1 at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, 1150 25th St. Free, 415-580-7605 or mcevoyarts.org. Concurrent with the exhibit: A music and film ...

Paradox is at the heart of a new video by the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, “Sunday Without Love,” which has its romantic side and undercuts it, too. By Blake Gopnik After more than a decade of ...

In any case, he is hard pressed to distinguish real emotion from its ersatz other, since he was born into an acting dynasty and, as a child, spent many hours watching from the wings as his mother and ...

Artist Ragnar Kjartansson stands surrounded by women in gold strapless gowns. One by one, the women climb onto a slowly rotating pedestal to practice their performance: strumming an E minor chord on a ...