With Christmas right around the corner, why not treat the Philhellene in your life to a title from the Pocket Greek Library, suggest the publishers at Aiora Books? How can you resist the best of Ancient Greece in handsome pocket-sized hardcover editions that bring the wisdom of millennia into the everyday? From Aristotle to Plato, the ser...
Read moreIndia Hicks’ heartfelt tribute to her remarkable mother, Lady Pamela Hicks, offers an intimate window into an extraordinary life intertwined with history, royalty, and timeless elegance. Lady Pamela: My Mother's Extraordinary Years as Daughter to the Viceroy of India, Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen, and Wife of David Hicks, is a visual biog...
Read moreAs the calendar flips to December, Athens unfurls its festive splendour with Christmas bazaars that celebrate the city’s cosmopolitan character. Shop for gifts for loved ones and feel the warm, fuzzy spirit of Christmas while supporting the local creative community. Here is Athens Insider's round up of Christmas bazaars in Ath...
Read moreHead to the Kokotos Estate, this Sunday, December 1 for a tour of one of Attica’s finest vineyards. The First Sundays of the month have become a fixture in the Athenian calendar as Kokotos Estate opens its doors for guided tours of the vineyard and winery. A visual treat to take in an unlikely Athenian landscape as well as a brilliant ex...
Read moreWhat’s in a name? Plenty, if you live in Greece. Especially at this time of the year! According to Greek Orthodox tradition, specific days of the year are dedicated to a Christian Saint or Martyr, and celebrated accordingly with “Feast Days”. Marking your Name Day (the Saint whom you were named after) is a much bigger deal ...
Read moreMake your way this Saturday, on 30 November 2024 to Bustan Athina's fundraiser, a Levantine collective fostering cross-cultural exchange at OKUPA in Athens. From 2 to 9pm, support this singular initiative that blends food, drinks, art, music, and storytelling to highlight the shared cultural threads between the Levant and Athenians, whil...
Read moreIn our New Athenians series, Camille Cornillon, a ceramicist from Burgundy, who has made pit stops in Holland and Belgium before moving to Athens, speaks to Insider on why Athens fosters a nurturing creative community. ABOUT YOU What do you do? I am a ceramicist by training. I studied pottery and ceramics at the Fine Ar...
Read moreIn our New Athenians series, artist Diane Alexandre shares her creative inspirations with us and tells us why for her Athens is a city of constant opportunities. ABOUT YOU What do you do? I am a sculptor and céramicist with a background in literature and graphic design. About the Ceramics Scene in Athens -- Sum up how ...
Read moreWhat: Gagosian presents Night for Day, an exhibition of new works by Sarah Crowner, opening November 14 at the Athens gallery. This dynamic show integrates painting, architecture, and performance into an immersive environment that transforms the act of viewing into a sensory experience. On the gallery’s ground floor, Platform (Yellow terra cotta...
Read moreWHAT'S ON: The Breeder, Athens The Breeder proudly unveils MIRRORS, Maria Hassabi's much-anticipated second solo exhibition with the gallery. With her signature ability to blur the tangible and the ephemeral, Hassabi invites viewers into a meditative exploration of how images—both physical and metaphorical—shape our perception of reality. ...
Read moreAlways wanted to know why the date November 17 is such a big deal but didn’t quite know why. Nor did you quite understand why Greece’s most notorious terrorist group goes by the same name. Accomplished writer Sofka Zinovieff lends context and historical explanation to this all-important date in the Greek calendar in this excerpt from her ...
Read moreOkupa is a new multi-hyphenate hotel, restaurant, bar, record shop, co-working space and archaeological display and undoubtedly more, on the border of Psiri and Keramikos. Led by an impressive pair of longtime hospitality experts, and charming hosts, George Batrouni and Hrag Darakjian, Okupa was conceived as an urban hub to ad...
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