What: The Museum of Cycladic Art celebrates beauty through 300 exceptional antiquities from Museums and Collections in Greece and abroad. The ancient Greek word Kállos essentially means beauty and is associated with both the female and the male sex. However, the concept of Kállos in its ultimate dimension is not a word signifying me...
Read moreHolding court atop the stylish Academias boutique hotel in the center of city, expect elegant Japanese fusion dishes and expertly blended cocktails at NYX. Revel in unencumbered views of the Acropolis, as melodic deep house music plays the soundtrack for an Athenian great night out, Elena Panayides notes. Flavour factor: Japan...
Read moreWhatever your plans this Saturday morning, drop them! You've watched Chef Arnaud Bignon earn two Michelin stars consistently for over 15 years. He now joins you at home to share his insider culinary secrets, for FREE! Bring your aprons and appetites for an 11am date with Michelin Chef Arnaud Bignon. Join fellow Insider gourmets for a 30-m...
Read moreThe LEA Festival, a bridge between Ibero-American writers and its Greek public, opens on Monday, October 11, at the Benaki Museum in the presence of H. E. the President of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou. The LEA festival, now in its 13th year, offers two programmes that complement each other and ...
Read moreAfter an introspective year in isolation, Giannis Adamakos makes a departure from his colour-soaked compositions to seek beauty in shadows and foggy silhouettes in his collection, Insight currently showing at Citronne Gallery. What: Giannis Adamakos, who trained under Dimitris Mytaras and Panayotis Tetsis, presents his new bod...
Read moreFrom free microchipping of pets to adopting strays and even a Woof Festival, the City of Athens celebrates World Animal Day with a flurry of activities. The City of Athens has been actively fostering a partnership with Athenians to become more engaged in caring for its stray four-legged population. With the world’s largest str...
Read moreWho knew that a random conversation with a bank teller on a dreary, dank September afternoon in London would have such a profound impact on a young writer’s destiny? A superficial exchange about the clerk’s unusually dark tan led to Cohen hopping on a plane to Athens and heading out to Hydra. Hydra promised the life Cohen had craved: spar...
Read moreWhat: Paolo Fresu Quartet in Spetses on September 24 Karim Ghattas, who organised Liban Jazz in his native Beirut for over 15 years, brings his years of experience to Greece with the first ever Zenith Music Festival on Spetses on September 24 at the open-air theatre of Anargyrios. Paolo Fresu, unquestionably one of the most appreciated Italian m...
Read moreWhat: OBJECTS OF COMMON INTEREST, an installation by Archipelago Two talented designers who spend time between Athens and New York, Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis create still life installations, experiential environments and objects, demonstrating a fixation with materiality, concept and tangible spatial experiences. Work roots from an ...
Read moreWhat: ANTI-STRUCTURE, Curated by Andreas Melas Anti-Structure explores the far-fetched realm of fine lines between order and chaos, stasis and flux, structure and fragility. Taking an immersive installation by Urs Fischer as a starting point, and placing it in dialogue with the works of twenty-one Greek and Cypriot, the exhibition explores ...
Read moreThe Irish Embassy in collaboration with Athens Insider, call on street artists to create a mural inspired by James Joyce or his book Ulysses to mark Bloomsday. Bloomsday is marked around the world on June 16 as a celebration of Irish writer James Joyce, one of the most important writers of the 20th Century, but also as a celeb...
Read morePatisseur Stelios Parliaros shares a summer salad that hits just the right notes as temperatures soar! Ingredients: (10 servings) 4.4 lbs. (2kgs.) tomatoes 8.8 oz. (250 gr.) feta 1 bunch basil 1 bunch mint 1 bunch fresh coriander Lemon zest 7 oz. (200 gr.) cucumber 5 barley rusks Extra virgin Greek o...
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