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In an increasingly familiar refrain, the week kicked off with Martin Scorsese having to defend his stance on comic book movies, courtesy of an opinion piece in The New York Times. In an interview with Empire magazine published last month, Scorsese had said that Marvel movies are 'not cinema', comments which provoked a fierce backlash. In the Times, Scorsese...

Visiting Iceland earlier in the year, I caught Yearning for Space at Ásmundarsafn in the few days before the exhibition closed. Yearning for Space is the name of an Ásmundur Sveinsson sculpture from 1967, and it indexes the time when the Space Race was at its peak: set off by the successful orbiting of Sputnik 1 in October 1957, after the Soviet...

Born at Galtafell farm in southern Iceland, Einar Jónsson studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, settling in the Danish capital from 1904 following a couple of years spent mostly in Rome, with visits also to Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Vienna, and Florence. At the time, around the turn of the twentieth century, Iceland possessed little...