An amalgamation of music, visual and performance arts – where guests experience art in all its forms. That is what the organizers of Full Circle – Mark Kyriazopoulos, Dimitris Dimitrelos, Con Vlahavas and Tzortzis Petrogiannis – plan to create.
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Italian politician Alcide De Gasperi is seen holding his grandson Paolo, now 73, who returned a 5th-century BC Attic krater to Greece last week.
The European Center for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments (ECBCMM) completed one of its most important projects over the summer: the conservation of the ecclesiastical equipment of two churches of Imbros (Gokceada in Turkish), the birthplace of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and 42 portable icons from the Church of the Virgin Mary of Tenedos (Bozcaada in Turkish).
Protoje, one of the most acclaimed reggae artists of the last 15 years, will make his Athens debut on November 8 at the Arch Club (111 Konstantinoupoleos).
“Public enemy – A Greek Tragedy” is the title of a new documentary about the 2010 Greek financial crisis that depicts Greece as an ideological victim of European Union forces punishing the country with austerity measures.
A concert marking the painful 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus will be held in Washington DC on October 5.
The reopening of an iconic venue, closed for two and a half years, was marked by the launch of a painting and engraving exhibition at the historic Panellinion cafe in Mytilene, capital of the island of Lesvos in the eastern Aegean. The event was organized by the Peri Technon Karteris gallery, author Nadia Liarelli and Piraeus Bank (owner of the property) on Friday.
The vibrant paintings show nymphs with lotus plant wreaths, birds, deer, children picking bunches of grapes, a figure playing Pan’s flute, and figures from Greek mythology such as Demeter, the goddess of the earth and grain, and the head of Medusa, with her hair made of snakes.
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics contained “scenes of mockery of predominantly Christian religious symbols and persons” that “provoked the religious sentiment and faith of billions of people,” the Orthodox Church of Greece has said.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” has been chosen as film of the year 2024 by the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), in a first by a Greek director.
Police in Turkey have arrested four people in relation to the desecration of Greek community cemetery in Istanbul last week.
The trustees of a Greek Orthodox cemetery in Istanbul have described an attack on it by vandals as an attack “not only on a cemetery, but also on a deep-rooted cultural heritage and religion.”
The Culture Ministry’s All of Greece One Culture program continues for an eighth week (August 19-25) with 10 new productions at unique archaeological sites, monuments and museums.
Marking the August full moon, the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki opened for free on Monday night.
On-site inspections of ancient monuments in Dionyssos, Marathon and Penteli continued Wednesday by the Antiquities Ephorate of East Attica to assess possible fire damage.
As a quintessential political art, theater has always served as a valuable conduit for reminding and updating the timeless demands of a well-ordered state.
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