Vincent van Gogh has been surprisingly busy for a dead man. His paintings have featured in major museum exhibitions this year. Immersive theaters in cities like Miami and Milan bloom with projections of his swirling landscapes.
VISUAL ARTS
A mural inspired by award-winning Greek poet Kiki Dimoula (1931-2020) was unveiled on Friday at Rome’s Sapienza University to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Saturday.
The first major retrospective exhibition of Leda Papaconstantinou (b. 1945), one of the most important artists in the history of contemporary Greek art, will open on December 14 at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (emst.gr).
Five people on Crete are facing charges related to making up to €6 million by selling forged art works, attributed to well-known artists, to private individuals, collectors and auction houses overseas, following an investigation by police.
The narrow, arched room below the Medici Chapels Museum in Florence has some suspiciously virtuosic doodles on the walls.
Workers clean the glass sculpture “Dromeas” (The Runner) by Greek artist Costas Varotsos in Athens on October 4.
“Pytheas Travels” is an audiovisual simulation of the experience of traveling from the Mediterranean to the seas of Scandinavia.
The death has been announced of prominent contemporary Greek artist Stelios Faitakis, who was acclaimed for his allegoric paintings that combined Greek Orthodox iconography with street art. He was 47.
Robert Wilson will present his solo exhibition “Owls and Chairs” at the Bernier/Eliades Gallery (11 Eptachalkou).
The successful Tilos Artist Residency program continues for the second consecutive year on the island of Tilos in the Dodecanese, Greece. For the 2023 edition of the program, Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative (PCAI) collaborates with the British Council in the framework of the Circular Cultures (Making Matters) program inviting British artists RESOLVE Collective. From October 23 to 31, the artist collective will be on the island to explore possible environmental solutions through the lens of artistic creativity and the means that art provides.
It could be mistaken for an abandoned construction site: a row of rectangular concrete blocks on a bare, square foundation.
Renowned “artivist” Barthelemy Toguo shared insights into his creative journey and the philosophy behind his work as he closed the six-week art exhibition “Life Is a Dream” on the Saronic island of Hydra.
Fernando Botero, the Colombian whose voluptuous pictures and sculptures of overstuffed generals, bishops, prostitutes, housewives and other products of his whimsical imagination made him one of the world’s best-known artists, died Friday in Monaco. He was 91.
“No foto!” was long the refrain from guards at the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid if a visitor dared to attempt to take a picture of “Guernica,” Pablo Picasso’s 1937 antiwar masterpiece.
One of the oldest art expos in Europe, Art Athina (aavirtual.gr) will celebrate its 30th edition this year at Zappeion Hall.
The Breeder presents “Seven Days in New Crete,” an solo exhibition by Aristeidis Lappas.
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