EMST Presents Penny Siopis’ First Major European Retrospective
What: EMST opens the new year with a landmark exhibition, For Dear Life. A Retrospective, the first major museum retrospective in Europe dedicated to Penny...
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2024 Athens and Epidaurus Festival Must-See Highli...
Now in its 69th year, the Athens Epidaurus Festival is one of the ol...
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A Celebration of Culture, Creativity and Community...
The electrifying This is Athens-City Festival kicks off on May 1 and kee...
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The Benaki Museum celebrates Nobel Laureate George Seferis
What: 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...
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Mummenschanz offers 90 minutes of wordless wonder
No words. No music. This theatre production coming to Athens turns instead to otherworldly masks, costumes, choreography and large-scale props to tell its stories. Mummenschanz, a Swiss performance troupe founded in 1972, is bringing its 50-year anniversary production to Athens at the Pallas Theater on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 March. A s...
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An insight into Greek poetry through Cavafy
Athens pays tribute to celebrated bard Constantine Cavafy whose verses inspired a whole generation of Hellenes, both in his native Alexandria and in Greece. Athens welcomes the opening of an archival space dedicated to Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), widely considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century. Cava...
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Athens Insider’s Top 5 Culture Picks for September 2023
From commemorating Lord Byron’s relationship with Greece, to re-working the first opera using mycelium, we recommend the best of arts and culture to be found throughout the city this month. “Sonic Odysseys” and “Xenakis and Greece” at EMST A single exhibition could never be enough to celebrate the polyphonic genius of...
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Athens Insider’s Top 5 Culture Picks for June 2023
From top tier international guests to avant garde music, we recommend the best of arts and culture to be found throughout the city this month. Theodoros Currentzis and John Cale at Athens Epidavros Festival As always this world class festival offers Athenians and visitors the opportunity to experience outstanding perf...
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Maria Callas: The Sacred Flame
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...
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Athens Insider’s Top 5 Culture Picks for May 2023
From 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...
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Women in the Collection of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation
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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Venus in a gold bikini. An unexpected visitor at the Acropolis Museum.
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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