The Museum of Cycladic Art was founded in 1986 to house the wealth of Cycladic and Ancient Greek art belonging to Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris.
The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), established in October 2000, is the sole national institution focused on collecting and exhibiting contemporary Greek and international art in Athens.
With many of us heading back into a kind of self-imposed lockdown with the new wave of the pandemic, the Onassis Foundation’s We Stay Close, Not Closed virtual culture platform offers opportunities to listen to and watch guests from around the world talk about their experience of the new reality.
Watch a discussion with American memoirist, essayist, critic, columnist and translator Daniel Mendelsohn on the subject of the Egyptiot Greek poet C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) on the Onassis Foundation’s We Stay Close, Not Closed virtual culture platform on YouTube.
Irish actress and theater and opera director Fiona Shaw and philosopher Simon Critchley delve into the subject of Medea, the daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis in Greek mythology, and wife of the mythical hero Jason, in a conversation recorded in 2017 as part of the Onassis Foundation’s “A World of Emotions” exhibition.
On Friday, August 21, the 1953 American musical comedy “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” will be screened on the SNFCC’s Great Lawn, starting at 9 p.m.
The Thessaloniki Museum of Photography presents “Shadows of the Mind,” a selection of work by renowned South Africa-based American photographer Roger Ballen.
The Greek capital’s Blank Wall Gallery brings together work by more than 300 photographers from 77 countries for the International Photo Festival in the Cretan city of Hania.
Inspired by Ariel’s song in Shakespeare’s tragicomedy “The Tempest,” Greek world music act Savina Yannatou and Primavera en Salonico present “Watersong,” a program of songs from different parts of the Mediterranean about the sea, the desert, life, death and magic.
Curated by Angeliki Charistou, “Utopia Revisited” presents a selection of avant-garde Russian art that illustrate the influence of literature, political commentary and philosophy.
Rivals in panache and daredevilry, the Great Leslie and Professor Fate embark on a crazy seven-car rally from New York to Paris via the Bering Strait and across Russia.
The Athens State Orchestra pays tribute to Beethoven on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of his birth with a concert at the Herod Atticus Theater.
A man transformed into a hoopoe rallies his feathered friends behind the idea of creating a community that is free from corruption and the other ills of human society.
The Alex Mylona Museum presents the pioneering Greek artist Stephen Antonakos (1926-2013) in an exhibition that has been extended until October 18.
The Greek National Theater is on tour with an English-language adaptation for the stage of Georgios Vizyenos’ “My Mother’s Sin,” a short story written in 1883 that is partly autobiographical and is regarded as one of the masterpieces of the Greek literary canon.
In “Between Two Worlds,” artist Chris Akordalitis presents humorous vignettes with almost comical protagonists that belie the deeper emotional impact of his work.
The National Theater of Northern Greece has invited 28 Greek artists living or working abroad – from Brussels to New York and Mexico City – to create a piece inspired by “The Birds,” Aristophanes’ 414 BC comedy about the efforts of an ambitious Athenian who convinces the birds to help his create a utopia between Heaven and Earth to counter both the worlds of man and the gods.
The indomitable Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn star in the kooky 1969 comedy “Cactus Flower,” which is playing at the Great Lawn of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) on Friday, starting at 9 p.m.
Conducted by Italy’s Pier Giorgio Morandi, the Greek National Opera Orchestra presents two opera galas at the Herod Atticus Theater on July 26 and 28.
The Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation (PIOP) is screening noir classics on the terrace of its Historical Archives in a former factory in downtown Athens in a tribute to the great films of the 1940s and 50s that shaped the crime genre.