[Lead] The 2022 Athens Festival’s programme line-up promises a provocative dialogue between art and social reality, underpinning the intractable role of artistic creativity in political engagement. From jazz diva Diana Krall to rock legend Patti Smith and techno whiz Jeff Mills, contemporary interpretations of Greek tragedies (German director Ulri...
Read moreThe 14th edition of the LEA (Literature in Athens) Festival as every year celebrates the best in Ibero-American literature bringing together writers, publishers and readers in a ten day festival across the country. Held at different venues from June 14 to 24 in Athens and from June 17 and 18 in Lefkada, the opening ceremony will take plac...
Read moreWhat: The known histories of the Portuguese world's engagement with the Americas, and specially with Brazil, could fill thousands of volumes, enough to form a Library, minimally fair and true. OCEANO, OCEANOS presents works by two world renowned artists: Patrícia de Heredia, from Portugal, and Rodrigo de Castro, from Brazil. The exhibition will be...
Read moreFor nearly 40 years, the Runciman Award has been selecting the best book published during the year in English about Greece or a Greek subject. Covering every imaginable subject related to Greece from archaeology, history and myth to contemporary fiction, biography and travel writing, writer Sofka Zinovieff , who served as a judge on the ...
Read moreAthens Insider launches a new series of conversations with international literary luminaries hosted at the Benaki Museum. For many writers, Athens is a city of intersections. When they arrive in Athens, they bring characters who have lived in other cities and other stories they have heard since childhood. They grapple with the...
Read moreLouise Bourgeois iconic giant spider — one of the works that made the artist internationally famous — will be on display at SNFCC’s Esplanade for a seven-month period, with free entry to the public. The first artist to receive a commission for the London’s Tate Modern, her stainless steel, 30ft sculpture of a spider carrying marble eggs,...
Read moreWhat: Now established as an important date in the cultural agenda of the city, the French Film Festival, as every spring, brings the best of French cinema to Greece. Watch this space for highlights and the behind-the-scenes news on the 22nd edition of the festival. Romance, action, drama, comedy, suspense and even bone-chilling horror – t...
Read moreWhat: An inspiring group exhibition titled, “Open-ended”, celebrates the unique value of the work in progress and the beauty of the incomplet. The exhibition brings together a wide spectrum of techniques and materials that highlight the artistic process; the inception of a creative idea, what strikes the imagination, and all the variou...
Read moreWhat: A group exhibition that brings together richly varied works by three generations of international, regional, and local artists. Their works reflect on the poetic power of ruins and fragments—in the city of Athens, a thriving contemporary metropolis charged with the traces of ancient histories. The exhibition features different forms of inn...
Read moreWhat: One of the most influential Greek figures in cinema and politics, Melina Mercouri's raspy voice and fierce activism fired the imagination of a whole generation of Greeks. She remains as beloved as she was in her lifetime - a retrospective on her life at Technopolis celebrates her multi-faceted personality and bolsters support for one of her p...
Read moreAlekos Fassianos whose poetic approach to Greece's cultural heritage, so masterfully embodied in his instantly recognisable, faux-naif, colour-soaked paintings, has died at the age of 86. Fassianos’ artistic appeal lies in the fact that his work makes one imagine a life with warm, southern sunshine, a carefree, leisurely pleasure, and the...
Read moreWhat: NEON presents a series of performances Sisyphus / Trans / Form (2019) by internationally acclaimed Greek choreographer, director and performer who blends experimental dance, physical theatre and performance art in surreal, dreamlike and immersive performances. Sisyphus / Trans / Form (2019), a piece for six performers, is based on the myth...
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