Athens Insider’s Top 5 Culture Picks for May 2023
From literary salons to art installations and street parties, we recommend the best of arts and culture to be found throughout the city this mont...
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Culture at the time of a pandemic
George Manginis, Academic Director of the Benaki Museum argues that th...
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EMST as a storyline
WHAT: EMST as a storyline presents the museum’s story since it first started ope...
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Abstract approaches by Greek artists of the Diaspora
WHAT: Curated by Kyriakos Koutsomallis, the exhibition features works of art by modern Greek artists from the diaspora who thrived in their adopted countries pursuing their creative careers. Basil and Elize’s impressive collection features artists Chryssa, Lynda Benglis and Babis Vekris (who were based in the US), Paris-based artists and sculptors...
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Constantin Xenakis – Greece And Writing Codes
WHAT: The multifaceted visual idiom of Constantin Xenakis, who recently passed away, is inspired by signs and symbols that span the spectrum from the ancient worlds of Egypt and Greece to contemporary reality: urban structures, computer systems, the chaotic internet. He charts and codifies, combines elements from past and present, documents and den...
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Children’s imagination is an antidote to isolation
WHAT: An exhibition that brings out the very vivid and fascinating response to the lockdown. The drawings that will hang on the walls of the museum express the very real and imagined fears, joys, hopes and thoughts of children. An insight into children's imagination and their experience of social distancing. WHEN: Until September 30 WHERE: B ...
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Chinese works of art from the Passas Collection
WHAT: An exhibition featuring 100 Chinese decorative objects dating back to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) has opened door this week at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens. Made of precious and semi-precious stones, the artworks, belong to the Foundation of Greek collectors Ioannis and Dimitra Passas, and present the little-known Chinese art...
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The Adventure of Human Form in 20th Century Greek Painting
WHAT: The B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation and the National Gallery present an exhibition with masterpieces that belong to the splendid collection of the Museum. Featuring the theme of the human form and its various transformations in 20th century Greek painting, the exhibition runs until late August. WHEN: Until August 23 WHERE: B & M...
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Prayer
WHAT: Age has never been a deterrent to the creative curiosity of the 90-year old conceptual artist. His exhibition ‘Prayer’ at his eponymous Museum on Tinos celebrates the Tree in its various forms. The Costas Tsoclis Museum, housed in a former primary school in Kambos village on Tinos, opened in 2011, as a comprehensive archive of the artist’s wo...
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Chisel and Memory: The Contribution of Marble Craftsmanship to the Restoration of the Acropolis Monuments
WHAT: Over forty years of photographs and documentation of the marble craftsmen of the Acropolis at work. Marble craftsmen dominate the worksite, like forms in flight balancing on towering scaffolds, maneuvering the huge blocks of marble and conservation materials into and out of position. Grouped around six themes of self-denial, labour, cooperati...
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Cycladic Society. 5000 years ago
WHAT: Browse through the exhibition, held to mark the museum's 30th anniversary in 2016, that showcases the structure of Cycladic society during the Early Bronze Age (3200 to 2000 BC). Discover the natural environment in which they lived, the occupations of the inhabitants, their social or religious customs and beliefs. In Greek and English WHER...
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Christmas Meet Market
WHAT: There’s nothing better than sipping a warm drink and shopping for gifts for your loved ones, especially when there are hundreds of different choices in one festively decorated market. Local merchants will be selling their goods all weekend long at the Christmas Meet Market. There’s even a solution for the kids being towed along in the form of...
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