culture
Culture | Sep 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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City Life | Jun 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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City Life | May 2023
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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City Life | 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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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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Culture | Mar 2023
This Wednesday March 8th Dave Red Athens & Psichogios Books join forces to celebrate a female-led cultural event for International Woman’s Day!
A unique literary event at the 1st Floor of Dave Red Athens brings women’s writing to the foreground. Three amazing women authors guide us through female leadership and on being t...
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City Life | Nov 2022
Alexandros Efklidis has run the GNO’s ground-breaking alterative stage at the glittering new Stavros Niarchos Cultural Centre since it opened in 2017, a gift from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to the Greek state. In this time, the opera house has emerged from the side-lines of musical theatre to become one the world’s most exciting and ...
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City Life | Nov 2022
The idea behind our literary salons and supper clubs is that Athens needs more concrete and compelling places where native Athenians and new Athenians can meet each other. In short, we want friends. We want a sense of community. And we want to develop ways to keep people coming back, or to stay in Athens. We want to tell stories that connect with t...
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Food & Drink | Nov 2022
Long a favourite of museum visitors and ladies-who-lunch, the Benaki Museum restaurant on Koumpari Street welcomes visitors to its renewed space, with extended hours and a new aesthetic that channels the legendary Fofi’s restaurant in Berlin. With inspiring art by Alexis Akrithakis, and letters and works by his iconic peers who visited hi...
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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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Travel | Oct 2022
Start planning for Elefsina. With its empty factories and oil refineries, a line of tankers pointing the way around Salamina, its easy to forget that this seaside city was the most hallowed site of Ancient Athens. The city that represents nothing less than the eternal cycle of life and death is now the European Capital of Culture 2023. If...
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