Arts

Amanda Georgiadi enchanted audiences and viewers with “Die together” and won 8th place in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The representative of Greece on the stage in Turin was applauded by the audience and won the impressions by entering the top ten. The Greek-Norwegian singer collected a total of 215 …

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Thirty-seven Athenian art galleries will be open to the public until evening for the annual Gallery Walk on Thursday and Friday, May 12-13. Organized by the Athens Culture Net of the Municipality of Athens and the Hellenic Art Galleries Association, the event will keep the galleries open as late as …

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Disney Plus has released the trailer for “Rise,” a film based on the real-life story of the Nigerian-Greek Antetokounmpo family that produced the first trio of brothers to become NBA champions in the history of the league – Giannis and Thanasis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Laker …

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Legendary Greek porn star Kostas Gousgounis passed away at the age of 92. He died last Friday at an Athens hospital after suffering a heart attack a few days previously, media reported. His burial took place on Monday in Artemida, in eastern Attika. Gousgounis, who was born in Larissa on …

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Hollywood star Emma Stone is currently in Greece for the premiere and promotion of the short, silent black and white film “Bleat” directed by Yiorgos Lanthimos. She arrived in Greek capital Athens on May 4 and her professional duties did not hinder her to watch a basketball game live in …

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The Athens Culture Net of the Municipality of Athens offers the “Athenian Routes” a program with historical tours, artistic experiences and walks in the month of May. The aim of the program is that participants get to know through the routes special parts of the city, invisible corners, but also …

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Prominent private collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos has announced the donation of a large part of his collection of important works of contemporary art, which consists of more than 500 pieces, to four museums located in in Greece, Britain and the USA. The donation by Daskalopoulos, who is the custodian of the …

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The monumental spider sculpture Maman by French-American artist Louise Bourgeois has been  installed at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) and is available to the Greek public for viewing. The iconic giant spider Maman (1999), one of the works that made Bourgeois internationally famous , will be on display …

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Famous Norwegian photographer Knut Bry was arrested on the island of Lesvos on Wednesday afternoon, while shooting pictures at the harbor of the island in the eastern Aegean Sea. According to local non-governmental organizations, Bry was arrested on the charge of espionage. In a brief statement, the Norwegian Embassy in …

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Internationally acclaimed British historian and award-winning author Mark Mazower was sworn in as a Greek citizen on Monday, in recognition of his “exceptional contribution” to Greece. At a special event, 63-year-old Mazower was sworn in as a Greek citizen by Interior Minister Makis Voridis. Specializing in Balkan and Greek history, …

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One of Greece’s most important contemporaneity painters, Alekos Fasianos, passed away at the age of 86 early Sunday evening.  He died in his home, surrounded by his wife and their two children. In the last years he was suffering from  health problems. The emblematic painter sealed with his works a …

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To celebrate the 200 years of Greek independence, public radio station Kosmos 93.6 asked ten foreign musicians who live and work in Greece to chose a favorite song and cover it in their native language -and music genre. The results were compelling, and the show was broadcasted on March 24 2021, …

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Greece’s Culture Ministry launched an investigation Friday following the online release of a short film showing two men having sex at the ancient Acropolis in Athens. The 36-minute movie, titled “Departhenon*,” was released on Dec. 21 but came to the attention of authorities this week. The Culture Ministry said it …

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Editors of Time magazine picked as the Best of 2021 the heartbreaking photo of a desperate elderly woman with the flames of the wild fires nearing her home in Evia in the background. The picture was taken by photographer Konstantinos Tsakalidis for the agency SOOC on August 8, 2021. On …

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Τhe international exhibition ‘She’s Gone-“For An Empty Shirt”‘ will be inaugurated at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation (MCF) on November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. In Athens, the touring exhibition is co-organized by the Israeli Embassy in Greece and MCF. The exhibition was first launched in …

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Survivors and descendants of victims of the Massacre of Kalavryta by the Nazis are furious about the film “Eyewitness – Kalavryta 1943” over a scene showing a supposedly “good Nazi rescuing children.” The Association of Survivors and Victims threaten to sue the film producers with state broadcaster ERT being one …

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Α new sculpture of Maria Callas was unveiled in downtown Athens on Friday afternooon. The sculpture of La Diva stands opposite the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in a small park with olive trees close to the Acropolis of Athens. The cooper work was created by sculptor Aphrodite Liti and was …

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In an atmosphere loaded with emotions and music, his family and friends, thousands of Cretans and travelers from elsewhere, political leaders and local authorities accompanied great composer and global Greek  Mikis Theodorakis to his last home in the cemetery of the village of Galatas by Chania on Thursday. As the …

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Greek-American actor Michael Constantine, the legendary Gus Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding,  passed away at the age of 94. Although already known in the USA, Constantine became famous worldwide as Gus Portokalos, father of Toula (Nia Vardalos) in the comedy film My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002). Gus …

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Thousands of Greeks gathered at the Athens Cathedral early Thursday afternoon to attend the funeral service for the great late composer Mikis Theodorakis and say for the last time Farewell to a man who charmed and roused the world with his immortal tunes and his songs. “We don’t forget you, …

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