Culture
City Life | Oct 2022
A group of talented chefs, risk-taking restaurateurs and sommeliers are cementing Athens’ status as a foodie capital. Michelin agrees by adding a slew of 27 fine food restaurants to its coveted star system. Here's our definitive guide to Athens' Michelin hot spots.
Restaurateurs in Athens are pushing the taste frontiers w...
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Culture | Oct 2022
The Blender Gallery celebrates its tenth anniversary in style with a group show exhibition, Shapes Of Stories. 15 contemporary ceramic artists who use ceramics in radical ways to reshape the medium, allow us to witness the sheer versatility of their craft. Drawing inspiration from ancient traditions while pushing the boundaries of what ceramics wor...
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Culture | Sep 2022
Following last year's powerful exhibition Reality Check Chapter II: Inner Sanctum, curated by Kostas Prapoglou, returns to the same place with 36 artists seeking through contemporary art, answers to new questions, figments of a dialogue between artists and viewers; a dialogue that has been unfolding unceasingly since the exhibition gave a...
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Culture | Sep 2022
With 142 movies, 12 audacious premieres, and 4 major tributes, plus cult classics from the ‘80s in the Queer Britannia and New Hollywood section of the festival, the Athens International Film Festival which runs until October 9 promises an immersive experience for cinephiles. Athens Insider rounds up the must-watch films at the festival....
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Culture | Jul 2022
Figaro Histoire in partnership with the City of Athens, and with the generous support of the Greek National Tourism Organisation, celebrated France’s enduring love affair with Athens with a two-day conference on May 27 and May 28 at the Academy of Athens. Les Journees Atheniennes, co-organised by Athens Insider, was the first in a series ...
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Culture | Jun 2022
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The 2022 Athens Festival’s programme line-up promises a provocative dialogue between art and social reality, underpinning the intractable role of artistic creativity in political engagement. From jazz diva Diana Krall to rock legend Patti Smith and techno whiz Jeff Mills, contemporary interpretations of Greek tragedies (German director Ulri...
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Culture | Jun 2022
The 14th edition of the LEA (Literature in Athens) Festival as every year celebrates the best in Ibero-American literature bringing together writers, publishers and readers in a ten day festival across the country. Held at different venues from June 14 to 24 in Athens and from June 17 and 18 in Lefkada, the opening ceremony will take plac...
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Culture | May 2022
What: The known histories of the Portuguese world's engagement with the Americas, and specially with Brazil, could fill thousands of volumes, enough to form a Library, minimally fair and true. OCEANO, OCEANOS presents works by two world renowned artists: Patrícia de Heredia, from Portugal, and Rodrigo de Castro, from Brazil.
The exhibition will be...
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Culture | May 2022
For nearly 40 years, the Runciman Award has been selecting the best book published during the year in English about Greece or a Greek subject. Covering every imaginable subject related to Greece from archaeology, history and myth to contemporary fiction, biography and travel writing, writer Sofka Zinovieff , who served as a judge on the ...
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Culture | May 2022
Athens Insider launches a new series of conversations with international literary luminaries hosted at the Benaki Museum.
For many writers, Athens is a city of intersections. When they arrive in Athens, they bring characters who have lived in other cities and other stories they have heard since childhood. They grapple with the...
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Culture | Mar 2022
Louise Bourgeois iconic giant spider — one of the works that made the artist internationally famous — will be on display at SNFCC’s Esplanade for a seven-month period, with free entry to the public. The first artist to receive a commission for the London’s Tate Modern, her stainless steel, 30ft sculpture of a spider carrying marble eggs,...
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Culture | Mar 2022
What: 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 22nd edition of the festival. Romance, action, drama, comedy, suspense and even bone-chilling horror – t...
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