With the blockbuster 2 Guns set to explode across U.S. multiplexes this summer, renegade filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur (Contraband) is about to become Iceland's most popular cultural export.
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What do you know about Nordic art? If your knowledge begins and ends with Bjork we suggest checking out "Nordic Outbreak," an exhibition illuminating ...
CHICAGO -- R. Kelly, Bjork and Belle and Sebastian are among the musicians headlining this year's Pitchfork Music Festival.
Festival organizers annou...
One of today's most unconventional artists is making a pretty conventional artist move by creating a Kickstarter campaign. Iceland's favorite songbird...
There's the husband-and-wife architectural team behind the new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, and the playwright who has probably brought more Asi...
LONDON -- Icelandic singer Bjork says she has had successful surgery to remove a vocal cord polyp.
The eccentric 47-year-old singer says on her offic...
We had high hopes for Bjork's "Mutual Core" music video and the queen of quirk did not disappoint. The hypnotic new video, directed by Andrew Thomas H...
Pussy Riot is back with another video. This time, the punk band and activist collective is thanking the group's supporters -- from celebrities to ever...
Rod Thomas, who goes by the stage name Bright Light Bright Light, is experiencing something he has only dreamed about. The dream to make music and entertain people from all walks of life from all around the globe is coming true.
Scott Snibbe is a New York-based media artist whose innovative vision has taken the art and music worlds to new depths of interactivity. From giant, d...
Eric Wahlforss doesn't want to tour the world and play his music for audiences. It wouldn't really be right, he said,Ā it wouldn't fit the songs. The ...
With Bjork's "Biophilia" app recently turning heads, everyone's talking about how to combine cool new technology with cool new music. Or at least we'r...
Michel Gondry used to have a style that was easy to pigeonhole. His "Science of Sleep," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and past music video c...
Happy birthday to one of the most influential multi-disciplinary artists of our time, Matthew Barney. His truly unhinged creativity never ceases to am...
Most of us use makeup to highlight our favorite features and minimize our least favorites. But with a little creativity, makeup can, like any artistic...
Zooey Deschanel, well-documented possessor of quirk, was a great sport Saturday night when she took part in a sketch that made fun of her own public ...
Avant-garde musician Bjork gained world-wide recognition in the 90s with the release of her full-length album Debut. As a result, her home country of ...
JERUSALEM -- American musician Cat Power has canceled her show in Israel, joining a list of artists shunning the country over its conflict with the Pa...
Bjork dropped by "The Colbert Report" Tuesday night, in advance of her New York City residency, sporting a hairdo resembling a flattened beehive and o...
It has long been said that the music video is a dying artform, with MTV and VH1 preferring celebrity train wrecks and underage mothers over the once-e...
You've probably heard by now that Hollywood's bad-girl-turned-good Drew Barrymore and her dreamy art consultant boyfriend Will Kopelman are now engage...