Ghika at the Benaki: A Journey from West to East
What: Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, one of Greece's most pivotal 20th-century painters, takes center stage at the Benaki Museum in a masterfully curated retro...
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Celebrating the Next Generation of Artists at the ...
With a notoriously good curatorial eye for spotting talent and a passi...
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Dimitrios Antonitsis: The Maverick of Hydra’...
Curator and artist Dimitrios Antonitsis has always been an experimente...
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Hydra: Sketches of the Mind
John Zervos, a lifelong Hydra-phile, recalls an extraordinary place that has played muse to everyone from Bridget Bardot to Presidential hopefuls. As a living archivist, he explains why there’ll never be another island like it. The island of Hydra in the Saronic gulf is unique in its architecture, significant in its role in mo...
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Hydra and Brice Marden’s Abstract Art star at Gagosian’s new Athens premises
Art critic Peter Schjeldahl of The New Yorker, described the acclaimed 81-year old artist Brice Marden as "the most profound abstract painter of the past four decades." And for good reason. Some of his paintings have been sold for more than 10 million dollars. He is also a hotelier, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ...
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Hydra, a muse for wordsmiths
A fertile setting for writers in need of inspiration, Hydra's bohemian artistic community in the '60s provided fodder for the literary wizards who'd adopted the island as their muse. From George Johnston's barely-disguised biographies to Henry Miller's transcendental ramblings, Daniel Klein's epicurean musings and Charmian Clift's poetic...
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Fragments of Perfect Anarchy: the story of an 18th century Hydra home cum music studio
In the sixties Hydra became an artists’ colony, even Leonard Cohen couldn’t resist and bought a house there. It has changed quite a bit since then and the simple lifestyle of those days changed into a more luxurious one. One local has been through it all – Stephan Colloredo-Mansfeld, who made his fortune being one of the first rare-record...
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Hydra’s lasting charm as an artist’s magnet
Art historian Els Hanappe researches into the making of an international artists’ community on the island of Hydra during mid-20th Century. Hydra 1936. Crumbling stone mansions testify to the glorious seafaring past of this long, bare and rocky island, close to Athens and across from the mainland of the Peloponnese. Less popul...
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What to do and see in Athens this September
From concerts at epic venues, retrospectives on contemporary art, sculptural installations, new gallery openings, ceramic exhibitions, collectible design, tango, theatre and more, Athens Insider rounds up the must-see events for the next two weeks. Kick off the cultural scene this September in style. Monica Bellucci in “Maria Ca...
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