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REYKJAVIK EXPERIMENT MARATHON

From 15 May to 24 August Reykjavik Experiment Marathon will bring together over 40 renowned artists, architects, film-makers, and scientists from the international community for a two-fold event at the Reykjavik Art Museum--Hafnarhús: a large-scale, three month-long exhibition and a laboratory conducting its work before the public during the opening days of the exhibition. Among the artists, architects and musicians taking part int he event, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Olafur Eliasson, are: Marina Abramovic, David Adjaye, Fia Backström, John Baldessari, Brian Eno, Jimmie Durham, Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Gabríela Fridriksdóttir, Yona Friedman, Jonas Mekas, Gustav Metzger, Matthew Ritchie, Tomas Saraceno, Katrín Siguoardóttir, and Rirkrit Tiravanija.

REYKJAVIK ARTS FESTIVAL: 2008

The 2008 Reykjavík Arts Festival will launch on 15 May with a groundbreaking series of visual and performing arts programmes that will involve most of the city's exhibition spaces and extend to other locations in Iceland. It will feature more than 30 exhibitions of over 60 Icelandic and international artists, and a special programme of events curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programs and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London, in collaboration with artist Ólafur Elíasson.

EXTRAORDINARY CHILD: PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARY ELLEN MARK AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ICELAND, REYKJAVIK

"'Extraordinary Child' is the kind of project that brought me to photography. I hope that after seeing the film and book, the audience will have a more intimate way of seeing children with disabilities because they are truly extraordinary.' Mary Ellen Mark. This week an exhibition of photographs by the American photographer entitled 'Extraordinary Child' opens at the National Museum of Iceland. Seventy photographs and a documentary film by the Oscar-nominated director Martin Bell document the lives of disabled children in Iceland.

MORGAN FALCONER ON THE LIBRARY OF WATER IN ICELAND BY RONI HORN

Anyone who has stood wrenching off their shoes at the threshold of an installation by the American conceptualist Roni Horn might presume that she would not be the best candidate to produce a work of public art. And yet here it is, 'The Library of Water', or 'Vatnasafn', as it is known in its remote Icelandic location, at the threshold of which you will be pulling at your shoes. Walking over her mat of words is a wistful joy, and her cluster of columns glint attractively, bending the world around them into flexing arcs, but one struggles to find any complexity.

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