Etrusco - the celebrated Mediterranean eaterie run by the Italian-Corfiot Botrini family - has won Greece’s top gourmet gong at the 2018 “Toques d’Or” (Golden Caps) awards. Held at the Hotel Grande Bretagne hotel this week, the Golden Caps are the country’s most prestigious and recognised Greek gastronomy awards and are grante...
Read moreWHAT: A rare chance to hear legendary Latino crooner Enrique Iglesias work his smooth charms on Athens. The global popstar – son of the original Latino “lady killer” Julio Iglesias – is to visit Athens as part of his European tour that will no doubt be a high-energy, visual spectacle in keeping with his previous tours and will include his recent sm...
Read moreWHAT: See legendary playwright Arthur Miller’s iconic masterpiece about migrants in 1950s Brooklyn in search of the American Dream. The play comes to the National Theatre of Greece for the first time in a perceptive and contemporary production directed by Nikaiti Kontouri. Inspired by a real event, Miller gives his play, whose structure was directl...
Read moreWHAT: Glyfada’s contemporary art and social space, The Blender Gallery, celebrates its fifth anniversary with a retrospective group showing of their favourite 16 artists. The following artists participate in the exhibition (presented in alphabetical order): Manolis Anastasakos, Alexis Avlamis, Konstantinos Berdeklis, Bleeps, Dimitris Dallas, Dim...
Read moreWHAT: Peruse more than 800 items including machines, photographs, rare documents, audiovisual material, original historical texts, unknown facts, guided tours and educational workshops as part of this comprehensive tribute to Greece’s industrial evolution over the period 1860-1970. Where does a rabbit come from? When was the first ice-cream on ...
Read moreWHAT: Hear German wizards of electronica Kraftwerk at a single Athens show as part of their 2018 World Tour. From the mid 1970s, Kraftwerk founded a distinctive "robot pop" style that combines electronic music with pop melodies, sparse arrangements, and repetitive rhythms, while adopting their trademark highly-stylized image. Ticket prices start...
Read moreWHAT: A red-hot double bill as London Grammar and Rag’n’Bone Man headline the first day of Release Athens 2018. The much-loved indie/dream pop band London Grammar, fronted by the sensual vocals of Hannah Reid, will make their Athens debut, to be joined by one of the UK’s biggest chart toppers Rag'n'Bone Man, the "good giant" of soul / blues / po...
Read moreAthens Insider rounds up five destinations in Greece to experience an Easter like no other – rich in local custom and ceremony that capture the essence and magic of Greek Easter. Flying pottery in Corfu Wearing a helmet...
Read moreAre you a last-minute Romeo still searching for some romantic inspiration for Valentine’s Day this year? Athens Insider comes up with eight fool-proof Date Nights in the Capital guaranteed to earn you extra credits in the Game of Love this week. 1. Indulge in the Food of Love at Papillon [caption id="attachment_1286" align="ali...
Read moreMany consider that her colour-popping, dizzying creations influenced Andy Warhol. Without doubt, the avant garde Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama was a forebearer of the Pop Art movement. The still-spritely 89-year-old with the signature flaming wig has exhibited hallucinatory works such as “Infinity Nets” and her "Dots Obsessions" series (Kusama feti...
Read moreWHAT: Navine G. Khan-Dossos' solo exhibition, hosted by the Breeder Gallery, is a provoking visual reflection on the role of women regarded by society as both perpetrators and victims of violence. What does it mean to be both menace and target? The violence represented is not merely physical, but embodies a wider threat to society by those who exis...
Read moreWHAT: See Hollywood funnyman Bill Murray as you’ve never seen him before as he performs pieces by Foster, Gershwin and Bernstein alongside the renowned German cellist Jan Vogler in this Athens Festival highlight. Murray and Vogler struck up a friendship after meeting on a trans-Atlantic flight and cooking up a joint artistic project, showcasing eac...
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