WHAT: Join in a four-day celebration of the city’s artistic renaissance as Art-Athina 2024 opens its doors at the Zappeion from 19 to 23 September. Not just another art fair, this sophisticated highlight of the Athenian art calendar brings together the most influential local galleries and international exhibitors under the one roof and should not b...
Read moreFor the third year in a row, Athens Insider curates a new series of conversations with international literary luminaries on May 27 and May 28, 2024 as part of the Athens City Festival. Athens Insider continues with its Literary Salons with international literary luminaries as part of the Athens City Festival at two different v...
Read moreWhat: Odysseas Androutsos’s sword, Konstantinos Kanaris’s hand grenade, Andreas Miaoulis’s compass, Laskarina Bouboulina’s telescope and Lord Byron’s pistol, bring the History of the Greek War of Independence to life in the new permanent exhibition on the third floor of the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture, entitled “Modern Greece”. When: On Monda...
Read moreNikos Karathanos reclaims his exalted place in the Athenian culinary pecking order with inventive comfort food at Ateno, a restaurant-deli housed in a stunning 19th century building in the old commercial district. Ateno feeds our rekindled love for childhood favorites and homey foods with sophisticated “newstalgia” and transports us to o...
Read moreSlated for a radical makeover by 2023 Pritzker winner, Sir David Chipperfield, the National Archaeological Museum has been slighted for the more popular Acropolis Museum. With exhibits spanning from the Stone Age to the Roman era, Tom Hall recommends a mandatory visit to take in one of the world’s most impressive collections of anci...
Read moreFeaturing nine documentaries, eight narrative features, and two dozen shorts, the 21st edition of the San Francisco Greek Film Festival, runs from March 16-23 at Delancey Street Screening Room—with an online program available throughout that span in addition to in-person screenings. The festivities kick off with Asmina Proedrou’s Behind t...
Read moreNow 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. The Festival will open with Cedric Kahn's Making Of which premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, starring Denis Podalydès, Jonathan Cohen, Souheila Yacoub, and S...
Read moreBernier-Eliades Gallery opens the first exhibition of cult fashion designer turned artist Marin Margiela in Athens. A legendary Belgian designer, he left his eponymous label in 2008 and has been making art ever since. Margiela's art explores themes of deconstruction, fragmentation, and the reconstruction of found objects, much like his fa...
Read moreΤhe exhibition explores one of the most important historical events of Greek antiquity – the battle of Chaeronea that brought Alexander the Great onto the political stage and laid the foundations for the creation of the modern world. One of the most important historical events of Greek antiquity – the battle of Chaeronea that ...
Read moreWhat: The Benaki Museum celebrates the 60th anniversary of George Seferis winning the Nobel Prize for literature with a commemorative exhibition entitled “George Seferis: sixty years later.” The exhibition features artefacts and photographic documents, newspaper clippings, documentation of the award ceremony, press articles, letters and congratulat...
Read moreThe long-awaited legislation for gay marriage has finally been approved by the Greek Parliament, marking Greece as the first Christian Orthodox nation to do so. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who promised to enact these measures after his decisive re-election last year, emphasized the importance of equal rights during cabinet discuss...
Read moreFor its bewitching visuals alone, Athenian director Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film Poor Things stands tall as the season’s must-watch. The film’s sets, costumes and color palette commit to making each frame a visual masterpiece. But is Poor Things really the subversive, inventive spin on Frankenstein it claims to be, or, are we merely cha...
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