City Life
City Life | May 2021
The B&E Goulandris Foundation welcomes summer 2021 with 58 new works in its collection.
Wander among your favourite works of El Greco, Paul Cézanne, Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Georges...
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City Life | May 2021
The Queer Archive Festival is back again from 3 to 6 June 2021, hosting a great celebration of Athens’ rich and vibrant queer culture, with the support of Onassis Stegi for a second consecutive year.
Designed to celebrate the very best of queer arts and culture, The Queer Archive Festival raises the curtain on another rich pro...
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City Life | Apr 2021
Diana Farr Louis unpacks a tried and tested communal way of living where foreigners, slomads, retirees and families who are dreaming of a new existence in Greece are being seduced by fast internet speeds and the gentler groove of village life.
“With the pandemic, people around the world are realizing how much they ne...
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City Life | Mar 2021
The powerful dolls of Greek sculptor Ioanna Paraskeva speak for those women and girls who can’t. Through her ‘I am Not a Doll’ Project – the conceptual artist hopes to create a bridge between children and adults, allowing them to break down taboos about brutal topics – from domestic violence and rape, to sexual harassment and cyber abuse ...
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City Life | Mar 2021
From landmark monuments to famous city icons, here’s how the world turned on the blue and white colours to fete Greece on its 200th anniversary.
Sydney's ic...
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City Life | Mar 2021
Greece’s National Gallery is home to some of the world’s most coveted artworks, yet it spent a better part of its 143-year existence homeless and abandoned. All that is about to change as the new National Gallery opens its swanky doors on March 24 in Athens’ Pangrati district. A bright and cheery triptych by Panagiotis Tetsis with vibrant...
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City Life | Feb 2021
Do you know your Sambousak from your Sfoungato? Take a taste safari through the fragrant Mediterranean flavours of the Sephardic Jews – and enjoy a window into the culture of the local Jewish community – at Athens’ sole kosher restaurant, Gostijo.
For French-born Nehama and New York-bred Mendel, Gostijo was the culmination...
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City Life | Feb 2021
Memory serves to make us vigilant and to guard against the evils of yesterday. The Los Angeles Greek Film Festival is bringing the story of Greek Jews - from their rich traditions and culture to their darkest days - out of the shadows.
Heritage and Memory: A Focus on Jewish Greece, a ten-day virtual event
Greece honours the mem...
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City Life | Feb 2021
WHAT: Visitors to Athens International Airport will have a chance to catch a sneak preview of the Museum of Cycladic Art’s big upcoming show “Antiquarianism and Philhellenism,” organized to mark the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution and scheduled to open as soon as coronavirus restrictions are lifted. What is probabl...
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City Life | Feb 2021
An impromptu visit by a photographer to a synagogue in New York sparked a quest to document the history of the Romaniote Jews, a millennia-old population with traditions dating from ancient Greece and Rome. Explore one of the oldest Jewish Communities in existence and its presence in New York City at this immersive virtual exhibition.
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City Life | Jan 2021
The historic site of the former Public Tobacco Factory at Lenorman, a symbol of Greece’s industrialisation and progress, emerges as an emblematic cultural venue to host an exhibition to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the founding of the modern Greek state. The renovation of the impressive 19,000 sqm space will be funded in its entir...
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City Life | Jan 2021
Through good times and bad, we can always count on sugar! Enter the posh patisserie, a welcome new urban trend to tickle all our senses - not just our tastebuds. With an interior décor to rival a boutique hotel, Ourse in Glyfada flaunts a refined ambience every bit as delectable as their upscale festive treats. Clean lines, Tiffany-inspir...
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