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Culture | Mar 2023
Athens will be front stage in the world of art and design this May when the city hosts the award ceremony for the Pritzker Prize, the most distinguished honor in architecture. The winner announced on 7 March is Sir David Chipperfield. The recognition honors lifetime achievements, and it will draw attention to many spectacular, refined, and ...
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City Life | Mar 2023
There is one question more than any other swirling around in our minds as we contemplate the devastation of last week’s train crash, which killed 57 people, mostly young Greeks: How could this happen? Macropolis’ Nick Malkoutzis analyses the collective failure of successive Greek governments.
How could this happen? It’s what m...
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People | Mar 2023
Diana Farr-Louis interviews Irena Karafilly, author of Arrested Song, set in Lesvos, on the life and times of the intrepid Calliope Adham, a feminist before her time who challenged village traditions and morality. Spanning the arc of Greece's troubled history from the German Occupation during WWII to the military dictatorship, Arrested S...
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News | Mar 2023
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City Life | Feb 2023
It’s that time of the year again – to don your masks (and we don’t mean of the Corona variety), let your hair down and get into the Dionysian spirit! The City of Athens knows how to throw a party and you are all invited!
Get ready for a week full of parades, music, colourful costumes and dancing in the streets. The City of Ath...
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Travel | Feb 2023
Danylo Hawaleshka steps back in time with the cacophonous, kid-clad dancers of Skyros.
We’re lost. And we know we’re lost because it’s dark out and we’ve just driven onto the military base on the Aegean island of Skyros. We make a quick U-turn, followed by a phone call to our genial host-to-be - a bon vivant by the name of Dim...
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News | Feb 2023
Fans of The English Patient will soon get their wish to see Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite on screen for the first time in 25 years. The pair will star in star in a Bleecker Street production on Homer’s ancient classic “The Odyssey”, The Return directed by Uberto Pasolini. The film is planned for release in 2024.
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Insider Stories | Feb 2023
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Culture | Feb 2023
Behind the revelry and colourful floats, carnivals have always been an occasion for parody. A peek into Greek floats from the past decade where Carnival street parties were an excuse to decry political and social injustice.
Who were vilified? What were the issues that consumed Greece over the past decade? In the midst of the c...
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Culture | Feb 2023
What: Maria Iliou's documentary film and accompanying photographic exhibition at the Benaki Museum revisits the sensitive subject of the The Megali Idea or the Great Idea - the irredentist concept of establishing a Greek state that would include the large Greek populations that were still under Ottoman rule, after Greek independence. Through widely...
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Culture | Feb 2023
What: Inspired by the Eleusinian Mysteries, secret religious practices held in Elefsina during antiquity to honour the goddess Demetra,the festival’s cultural agenda is built around three thematic axes: Environment, Labour, and People and Society, and includes 130 artworks, 465 events (Mysteries) in 30 different city sites, by 192 Greek and 137 int...
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Culture | Feb 2023
What: The Goulandris Museum wows with a brilliant exhibition on New Realism - the movement founded in 1960s France, considered by many the European counterpart to Pop Art. Spearheaded by art critic Pierre Restany and artist Yves Klein, Nouveau Realisme was all about finding new ways of perceiving the real. Works by the most prominent Nouveaux Rea...
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