Arts

For the first time ever, Iron Maiden played live on stage their legendary “Alexander the Great” a tribute to king and great army leader. he performance took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia on Sunday, May 28, where Iron Maiden launched their “The Future Past” tour 2023. Alexander The Great#IronMaiden #TheFuturePastTour pic.twitter.com/9GtDhKyJnC …

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The second semi-final of Eurovision 2023 is over, with Greece failing to win the  ticket to Saturday’s Grand Final. 16-year-old Victor Vernicos and his song “What They Say” did not manage to get the audience support. Video: Predictions for Victor Vernicos, “the little boy-scout” as they ironically called him in …

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The famous Greek-American Portokalos family strikes back with “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3”. The “Greek Wedding” returns with a 3rd film and Nia Vardalos revives the role of Toula Portokalos, Along with Tula also Ian, actor John Corbett returns to the big screen for the joy of millions of …

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The historic cinemas “Ideal” and “Astor” in downtown Athens have been  designated as ‘preserved in use’ by the Environment & Energy Ministry’s Central Architectural Council, it was announced on Thursday. Maintaining their use as theaters contributes to highlighting these landmarks, which are inextricably linked to the historical, architectural and cultural …

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The Athens Jazz Festival, Greece’s best-known jazz festival, is back at Technopolis City of Athens, from May 22 to May 29, presenting an international line-up mirroring the absolute beyond concrete music limits character of jazz. The city’s longest-running music event, the standard appointment of jazz fans in Athens, is organized …

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In 2008, Swann Auction Galleries in Manhattan sold three Greek-language manuscripts from the 16th and 17th centuries to an antiquities dealer who returned them two years later after concluding they might have been looted. The dealer was reimbursed but the auction house, its officials said, was unable to reach the …

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Despina Geroulanou, the grande dame of the Benaki Museum, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 65. She was the director of the Benaki Museum Galleries, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Benaki Museum, Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of 2023 Eleusis European Capital of …

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Netflix is facing a backlash after a film, a supposed documentary, presenting Cleopatra, the Greek Queen of Ancient Egypt, as being one of the “black queens of Africa,” as one of the producers claimed. “Black-washing” historical figures such a Cleopatra has been criticized for “history theft” and strong reactions were …

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Rena Koumioti, one of the most significant singers of the New Wave genre in Greece passed away at the age of 81. Her death was announced in a post on Facebook on Monday. Koumioti was one of the foremost representatives of the Greek New Wave in the 1960s and 1970’s. …

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Three of the historic cinemas in Athens will stage an event with free of charge entrance and film screens in the center of the city to raise awareness about their potential closing if the buildings’ owner decides to repurpose their properties, as the movie theaters’ owners say. The event is …

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Greece’s Presidential Guards, the famous Evzones, go to Metro exhibition at Syntagma square in downtown Athens. Photographer Dimitra Hatziadam exhibits photos under the title “EUZONES – The guardians of the invisible.” The exhibition runs from March 1 to 31, 2023. Photographer Hatziadam will present part of the photo exhibition inauguration …

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International Greek Language Day, observed on February 9th, highlights the extraordinary role that the Greek language has played in the global development of literacy, science, philosophy and culture. Officially launched in 2017 to coincide with the annual commemoration of Greece’s national poet, Dionysios Solomos (April 8, 1798 – February 9, …

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A total of 42 teachers at the Drama School of the National Theater of Greece’s (NTG) resigned en masse on Wednesday in solidarity with their students over a controversial presidential decree. Protests were held on the same day with main slogan demanding the resignation of culture Minister Lina Mendoni. Δυναμική …

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The “2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture” program kicks off with a weekend of special opening events, at the coastal front of Elefsina, west Attica, on Saturday and sunday, February 4-5, 2023. The opening events will he held throughout the weekend with a program of exhibitions, concerts, DJ parties and …

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Actors and theater workers have called a 48-hour strike on Wednesday and Thursday in protest at a draft government bill on pay in the sector. Strikers extend their mobilization to daily TV series sets where cameras will be off for the same two days. The strike is been joined also …

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Prominent Greek writer and outspoken critic of the Church of Greece, Petros Tatsopoulos, was arrested on Monday after a candidate with the Christian nationalist Greek Solution party sued him for defamation and accused him of violating his religious freedom. Petros Tatsopoulos was taken into custody in downtown Athens after speaking …

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A 50-year-old Greek painter/decorator was sentenced to a 6-year suspended prison sentence on Friday for stealing three artworks from the National Gallery in Athens ten years ago. Having remained elusive for years but eventually arrested in 2021, the man had then confessed he was the perpetrator of the theft of …

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The “2023 Elevsis European Capital of Culture” program kicks off with a weekend of special opening events, at the coastal front of Elefsina, west Attica, on Saturday, February 4. The opening events will he held throughout the weekend with a program of exhibitions, concerts, DJ parties and side events across …

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Greek composer Notis Mavroudis died late on Tuesday following a tragic accident in his holiday home in Koukourava village in Makrinista on Mt Pilio. He was 77 years old. According to local media, Mavroudis he was fixing something on the balcony railing late on Tuesday, when he lost his balance …

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The heirs of a Jewish collector who fled Germany in the 1930s claim that well-documented provenance issues with the painting “La cueillette des olives” by Vincent Van Gogh have been overlooked by the museum and the Greek foundation that now owns it. Vincent van Gogh, La cueillette des olives, 1889 …

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