Berkeley-based painter John Zurier’s first solo museum exhibition, Matrix 255, on view at the Berkeley Art Museum, includes twenty-two new paintings that demonstrate a subtle effect on the viewer, ...

Iceland is the Land of Fire and Ice, and never is this taken so literally. Nowhere else do such utter opposites get squeezed ...

Even after several days on the trail, the environment keeps reminding you of its presence. This isn’t because Iceland is dramatic at every moment. It’s because it removes the layers that usually ...

A combination of tax breaks and photogenic scenery has led to a boom of American productions utilizing Iceland’s unique landscape. In cases like “Prometheus,” “Oblivion” and Christopher Nolan’s ...

“Flying in over the black sand beaches and lava fields, I could see that Iceland had the rugged and unusual look we needed. “ Clint Eastwood’s description of his first encounter with the location for ...

Much of the volcanic landscape that defines Iceland lies inland and requires deliberate exploration ashore. This is how to ...

For starters, there’s the extraordinary, almost otherworldly landscape shaped by millennia of dynamic natural forces — vast glaciers, dormant and active volcanoes, shooting geysers and geothermal hot ...

When we dream, people we know from our waking life often turn up in unusual places, doing things we never expected. Real life is a lot like that in the tiny town of Neskaupstadur, nestled in the ...

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“IT REMINDED me of a landscape from The Lord of the Rings,” says photographer Feodor Pitcairn, who captured this image of the Laki fissure in southern Iceland. But these highlands weren’t always green ...

Months before the Geldingadalir volcano erupted in 2021, Iceland's volcanologists knew it was coming. A subterranean serpent of magma was coiling through the depths looking for a way out. As the magma ...