What: Gagosian presents Night for Day, an exhibition of new works by Sarah Crowner, opening November 14 at the Athens gallery. This dynamic show integrates painting, architecture, and performance into an immersive environment that transforms the act of viewing into a sensory experience. On the gallery’s ground floor, Platform (Yellow terra cotta...
Read moreWHAT'S ON: The Breeder, Athens The Breeder proudly unveils MIRRORS, Maria Hassabi's much-anticipated second solo exhibition with the gallery. With her signature ability to blur the tangible and the ephemeral, Hassabi invites viewers into a meditative exploration of how images—both physical and metaphorical—shape our perception of reality. ...
Read moreAlways wanted to know why the date November 17 is such a big deal but didn’t quite know why. Nor did you quite understand why Greece’s most notorious terrorist group goes by the same name. Accomplished writer Sofka Zinovieff lends context and historical explanation to this all-important date in the Greek calendar in this excerpt from her ...
Read moreOkupa is a new multi-hyphenate hotel, restaurant, bar, record shop, co-working space and archaeological display and undoubtedly more, on the border of Psiri and Keramikos. Led by an impressive pair of longtime hospitality experts, and charming hosts, George Batrouni and Hrag Darakjian, Okupa was conceived as an urban hub to ad...
Read moreAward-winning artist Thomas Schütte follows his widely successful MoMA exhibtion with a solo show at the Bernier-Eliades Gallery. In Thomas Schütte’s world, delicate watercolors, towering figurative sculptures, vibrant ceramics, architectural models, and fully constructed buildings coexist as explorations of aesthetics, history, and cultu...
Read moreGreek-American chef Diane Kochilas taps into November with some comforting Greek winter squash recipes! It's an interesting month...so why not make it tasty, too, with a few surprising Greek pumpkin recipes? Here’s a menu of savoury...
Read moreWhatever culinary form your self-care takes, whether it's healthy salads, lovingly made pies, cakes and desserts or excellent coffee, Ohh Boy caters for it. Situated in the ever on the up area of Pangrati and surrounded by the galleries, clothes shops, bars and restaurants of Archelaou, Ohh Boy is almost as good for people wat...
Read moreBiodynamic pioneers from Kefalonia have a intriguing range of orange wines where they never let technique lead taste. Orange wine, that is wine made from white grapes that have been left in contact with the skin of the grapes for part of the process, can sometimes be guilty of not "should we" but "can we". I have tried wines o...
Read moreA tranquil and moving walk through the final resting place of some of Greece's most important figures. And a host of guardian cats. When getting to know a big city there are certain key locations that are going to help the visitor build a rounded picture of the place. Trips to a park or garden, a food market and a museum quick...
Read moreYou don't need a bright blue syrup with an eyeball ice cube in it to celebrate the darker side of cocktails. Since their popularity in the 19th century, cocktails, and cocktails makers, have embraced the macabre. Insider's in-house expert on all things spirits weighs in on classically chilling cocktails with tried-and-tested recipes throw...
Read moreRightly famous for the perfect Summer wines, Greece's cellar can also cater for the cooler evenings and heartier meals. Autumn is the time to let some of the more full bodied and flavourful wines back into your life alongside some powerful dishes to compliment them (some would say it’s the other way round but I can’t be respon...
Read more“What were you wearing?” It’s a question that is far too commonly asked of sexual assault victims. High school students Elly Culucundis and Julia Dimaki speak to Madeline Moye on "Unbound," a powerful art exhibition that highlights societal bias towards survivors of sexual assault. Although “Unbound” had humble beginnings as a c...
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