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Culture | Mar 2023
As 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...
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Culture | Mar 2023
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 23rd edition of the festival. Romance, action, drama, comedy, suspense and even bone-chilling horror – t...
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Culture | Mar 2023
When 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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Culture | Mar 2023
The Breeder presents three solo exhibitions by three inventive artists Sofia Stevi, Hana Ward and Kyriaki Goni.
SOFIA STEVI
When We Start to Understand the World
Sofia Stevi, Orange with two flies, 2022, ink and acrylic on cotton, 71 x 61 cm.
There is a house built by desire itself. It is a hou...
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Culture | Mar 2023
Alkinois Project Space presents Stories About a Whispering Prince by Marco Villard, curated by Romain Bitton and Alix Janta
What:
Heavily inspired by Figurativism and the formal conventions of Abstract Expressionism, Villard's work is firmly rooted in symbolism and evokes a meaningful sense of play. Paintings often portray...
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Culture | Mar 2023
Thematic guided tours scheduled for Wednesday, March 8 and Thursday, March 9, on the occasion of International Women’s Day
The B&E Goulandris Foundation celebrates International Women’s Day and is organizing, on Wednesday, March 8 and on Thursday, March 9, thematic guided tours titled “Women in the Collection of the Basil ...
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Culture | Mar 2023
The “Venus in a Gold Bikini” brings an erotic twist to the Acropolis Museum as part of a series of exhibitions titled "Temporary and unexpected visitors" that include artwork loaned from other world museums. These periodic exhibits will add something fun and frequently spectacular to the museum's story of antiquity.
The Acropo...
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City Life | Feb 2023
It’s that time of the year again – to don your masks (and we don’t mean of the Corona variety), let your hair down and get into the Dionysian spirit! The City of Athens knows how to throw a party and you are all invited!
Get ready for a week full of parades, music, colourful costumes and dancing in the streets. The City of Ath...
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Culture | Feb 2023
What: The Goulandris Museum wows with a brilliant exhibition on New Realism - the movement founded in 1960s France, considered by many the European counterpart to Pop Art. Spearheaded by art critic Pierre Restany and artist Yves Klein, Nouveau Realisme was all about finding new ways of perceiving the real. Works by the most prominent Nouveaux Rea...
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Culture | Feb 2023
What: Acclaimed photographer Vangelis Kyris collaborates with master embroidery artist Anatoli Georgiev to showcase the wealth of Greece's sartorial traditions. Kyris' portraits of contemporary Athenians wearing historic garments were then printed on fabric, with Georgiev bringing the 128 costumes alive with his extraordinary needlework.
As part...
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Hospitality | Feb 2023
The letter S spells seduction this Valentine’s Day at Grande Bretagne with a slew of romantic indulgences sure to set your heart racing!
Spa at GB Spa
Surrender to the nurturing embrace of the much-awarded GB Spa, or offer a gift voucher to a dear one. The pampering here is next level, designed to salve and soften the tough...
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Culture | Feb 2023
In a society that celebrates beauty and perfection, Athens Insider recommends one of the books long-listed for the Runciman 2023 prize - Exposed by Caroline Vout. With chapters enticingly titled Bodybuilding and Sex and Society, classicist Caroline Vout topples our lofty notions of timeless beauty. She reaches beyond chiselled models of m...
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