In her centenary year, Helena Matheopoulos pays tribute to Maria Callas whose operatic and personal style as the ultimate diva of her generation, coupled with almost endless drama and intrigue in her personal life, only contributed to her appeal as opera’s most iconic phenomenon. Forty five years after her death, Greek-born Ma...
Read moreFrom literary salons to art installations and street parties, we recommend the best of arts and culture to be found throughout the city this month. New Contemporary Art Installations at SNFCC This month the Stavros Niarchos Foundation welcomes two separate art installations that each add a layer of inspiration and eng...
Read moreWhat: The Benaki Museum pays tribute to photographer Elly Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari (1899-1998) with a retrospective exhibition to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary since her death. Better known as Nelly’s, the exhibition is categorized by the three cities that shaped her photographic point-of-view: her student years in Dresden, her arrival in A...
Read moreThe Alekos Fassianos Museum, a rare example in which the complicity between artist and architect underpins the dialogue between the works and the space that houses them, opened its doors to the public on April 26, 2023. Showcasing the artist's visual treatise on everyday Greek life in a building designed by his longtime friend, architect ...
Read moreAthens Insider continues with its Literary Salons with international literary luminaries as part of the Athens City Festival at two different venues on May 15 and May 24 - at Insider's urban garden terrace and at the National Observatory atop the Hill of the Nymphs respectively. The Athens Literary Salons feature writers who have set thei...
Read moreFrom charming whitewashed chapels that might have stepped off a Cycladic island, to stone and brick temples that rang the bell on history, here are 8 beautiful and storied houses of worship in the city centre where you can witness the sacred and solemn spirit of a Greek Easter. Agios Georgios (Saint George) on Lycabettus [capti...
Read moreAs we embark on a more muted Easter period for the second year running, best-selling Athens-based author Sofka Zinovieff evokes the intense emotion, glorious paradoxes and vivid imagery of a more typical Easter in Athens. Few would dispute that Easter celebrations are the most intensely beautiful and emotional events in the Gr...
Read moreJoin the fundraising auction at the Benaki Museum at Pireos 138 on Monday, April 3. After a long period, during which traditional techniques and design projects played second fiddle within the context of the Greek art scene, the global shift towards handmade creativity combined with its newfound dialogue with design has transformed Athens into an a...
Read moreAs a two-time Booker prize-winning author of over 50 books, Margaret Atwood has distinguished herself as one of the most important living authors of our time. Her groundbreaking future dystopia, The Handmaid’s Tale, remains a literary centerpiece in the wake of recent political dissent. The infamous red and white costume has been donned by women fr...
Read moreAlbanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's office might be a busy enclave of frenzied activity, but we now know that it is a colour-soaked one too! His exhibition titled Improvisations at the Zappeion features art made from documents on A4 paper, as well as calendars and other objects from his desk, giving political artistry a whole new meaning. ...
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 23rd edition of the festival. Romance, action, drama, comedy, suspense and even bone-chilling horror – t...
Read moreWhen producer George Karnavas @heretic.films approached artist Stefanos Rokos in 2019 with a compelling script of Vasilis Katsoupis’ Inside, he was hooked. The story revolves round Nemo, a high-end art thief, trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn't go as planned. Rokos’ brief was to recreate the narcissistic art collector’...
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