Sun Voyager

This guide to the Sun Voyager in Reykjavik follows sculptor Jon Gunnar Arnason, who won a 1986 competition to mark the city's two-hundredth birthday with a stainless-steel dreamboat meant to face the setting sun. It traces the public argument over which direction the finished sculpture should point, and how Arnason responded to the complaints before his death in 1989. He nicknamed this stretch of shoreline after himself, well before the sculpture was ever unveiled.