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Ragnar Kjartansson: Sunday Without Love

Featuring Kjartansson and Barbara London

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Ragnar Kjartansson joins Rail Editor-at-Large Barbara London for a conversation on Zoom.

In this Talk

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Ragnar Kjartansson

A photo of Ragnar Kjartansson on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Ragnar Kjartansson engages multiple artistic mediums in his performative practice. The history of film, music, theatre, visual culture and literature find their way into his video installations, durational performances, drawing and painting. Pretending and staging are key tools in Kjartansson’s efforts to convey sincere emotion and offer genuine experiences to audiences. Kjartansson’s work has been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions and performances at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Barbican Centre, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Reykjavik Art Museum, Palais de Tokyo, and New Museum. Kjartansson (b. 1976) lives and works in Reykjavik.

Barbara London

A photo of Barbara London on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Barbara London’s curatorial projects focus on sound art and new media. She joined the curatorial staff at the Museum of Modern Art in the early 1970s, where she founded the video exhibition and collection programs. While at MoMA, she organized many media exhibitions and one-person shows, and led the acquisition of works by Laurie Anderson, Nam June Paik, and John Simon, among others. Her book, Video Art: The First Fifty Years was published by Phaidon in 2020. She also produces the podcast series “Barbara London Calling.” London has taught in the Sound Art Department at Columbia University, and in the Graduate Art Department at Yale.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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