ATHENS TOP NEWS
, 08-12-2021
Athens , 08-12-2021
COMMUNITY / TECHNOLOGY
COMMUNITY / TECHNOLOGY
Athens, 08-12-2021
HOLIDAY EVENTS
HOLIDAY EVENTS
Athens, 08-12-2021
STOCK MARKET
STOCK MARKET
Milwaukee, 07-12-2021
SPORTS / ACCOLADES
SPORTS / ACCOLADES
ATHENS EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
|
EXHIB: \"PORTALS\" (31-12-2021 10:00 pm) Ôhe emblematic building of the former Public Tobacco Factory opens its doors for the first time to host an international group exhibition, Portals, featuring 59 artists from 27 countries including 15 new site-specific installations commissioned by NEON.
Among them, 18 Greek artists are exhibiting new works or works whose framework of creation and presentation have been renewed to make them site-relevant.
With this year’s commemoration of the Greek War of Independence and continuing to live through the pandemic, “Portals” aspires to give rise to new messages, ideas, and reflections regarding contemporary artistic creation, through the prism of a newly-formed reality composed of change and disruption.
The exhibition takes place in all renovated areas of the building: the atrium, corridors, halls and mezzanines, bathrooms, the former Customs Office, the surrounding area, on the roof / façade of the building and on Kolonos Hill.
The inspiration for the exhibition originates from an article by author Arundhati Roy on the Financial Times on April 2020 which states that “the pandemic is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.” Considering that the rift created by the pandemic on an individual and collective level opens a portal, it is up to us to deal with our transition through it. “We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world.”
The exhibition represents a pluralism of ideas and touches upon issues related to collectivity, cultural understanding of history and politics, public space, and our common past, present and future.
OPENING HOURS:
Monday, Tuesday: Closed Wednesday, Friday, Sunday: 11:00 – 19:00 Thursday, Saturday: 12:00 – 20:00 28 October | Closed.
ADDRESS:
Lenorman Street 218, 104 43, Athens.
DETAILS: https://neon.org.gr/en/exhibition/portals/
USA & GREECE CELEBRATING 200 YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP (01-01-2022 12:00 pm) U.S. Mission Greece’s year-long campaign to commemorate Greece’s Bicentennial named “USA & Greece: Celebrating 200 Years of Friendship.”
The campaign will include educational and cultural events across Greece that will highlight our 2 countries’ historic relationship and the ties that bind us: democracy, partnership, and shared values.
Ambassador Pyatt’s announcement came after the launch of the “Greece 2021” Committee’s campaign on January 1st to commemorate this landmark anniversary of 200 years since the Greek Revolution of 1821, with programs to celebrate Greece’s history, honor its people, highlight its achievements, and envision its future.
The “USA & Greece: Celebrating 200 Years of Friendship” campaign will support this effort through programs designed to convey U.S respect for ancient Greek ideals of democracy that were an inspiration at the founding of our country and highlight the role American Philhellenes played in Greece’s fight to establish their country. It will also celebrate the strong people-to-people ties between the U.S. and Greece over the last 200 years, and our commitment to our present-day strategic partnership.
Speaking about the campaign, Ambassador Pyatt said, “U.S.-Greek relations are the best they’ve been in modern history. Our friendship began during Greece’s war for independence and Greece’s 2021 bicentennial is an opportunity to celebrate this history and the values of liberty and democracy our peoples have defended for over 200 years.”
The U.S. Mission will fund several programs throughout 2021, partnering with Greek and American civil society, educational, and arts institutions. Program dates and further details about specific programs will be provided on the U.S. Embassy website throughout the year at gr.usembassy.gov.
Below is the list of “USA & Greece: Celebrating 200 Years of Friendship” programs:
- Virtual Entrepreneurship Project “Connect the Dots”: a virtual entrepreneurship mentoring program conducted in partnership with The Hellenic Initiative (THI), this program will provide online mentorship by U.S. business leaders to Greek entrepreneurs. This program is placed under the auspices of the “Greece 2021” Committee.
- Athens Science Festival 2021 – 200 Years of Innovation: an experiential space will be created, comprising multiple exhibits that refer to the historical anniversary and the evolution of the Greek State, highlighting areas of shared scientific excellence with the U.S. and featuring prominent American speakers. This program is placed under the auspices of the “Greece 2021” Committee.
- Greek National Opera, Stavros Niarchos Hall: the Greek National Opera will present 2 special musical performances of works reflecting the shared values of the U.S. and Greece.
- The “American Philhellenism” Exhibition at the Museum of Philhellenism: a special exhibition entitled “The American Philhellenism” at the Museum of Philhellenism in Athens, featuring unique artifacts and historical documents capturing the birth and evolution of Philhellenism, U.S. support for the Greek Revolution, and the impact of Greek culture on the values, institutions, artistic and architectural expressions in the U.S.
- Exhibition “The Free and the Brave: American Philhellenes and the Glorious Struggle of the Greeks (1776-1866):” at the Gennadius Library, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, this will be an exhibition exploring the movement of Philhellenism that flourished in the U.S. in the 19th Century, influenced by Greek classical thought and democratic ideals.
- American Studies: scholarships towards the establishment of an American Studies curriculum at a Greek university.
- “Greek Fire:” a seminar at the Delphi Economic Forum and online report on the lasting impact that the Greek Revolution has had on American culture and politics.
- City of Sparta: Sparta will host a conference on American Philhellenes and conduct a range of programs throughout 2021 to commemorate the bicentennial.
- U.S. Consulate General Thessaloniki: the creation of an exhibit that chronicles the history of the Consulate General and the U.S. presence in Thessaloniki.
The full transcript of the interview is here:
https://gr.usembassy.gov/ambassador-pyatts-remarks-on-erts-morning-show-syndeseis/.
For more information about “USA & Greece: Celebrating 200 Years of Friendship,” follow the embassy at: @USEmbassyAthens and #USAGreece2021
CYCLADIC MUSEUM EXHIB: K"ALLOS: THE ULTIMATE BEAUTY" (16-01-2022 8:00 pm) An exhibition which highlights the concept of 'kallos', or beauty combined with virtues of the soul in ancient Greek, is currently on display at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens.
Through 300 exceptional antiquities from Museums, Ephorates of Antiquities and Collections in Greece and abroad, various aspects of the notion of Kallos (meaning beauty in Greek) in everyday life and philosophical discourse in ancient Greece are presented.
Ôhe exhibition displays three hundred emblematic antiquities from fifty-two museums, collections, and Ephorates of Antiquities throughout Greece, as well as from Italy, and the Vatican. The overwhelming majority appear for the first time outside of the museums of their provenance. They meet and mingle in the Museum of Cycladic Art, so as to give an integrated picture of the ideal of Kallos, inadequately translated into English as Beauty.
The selected exhibits date mainly from the seventh to the first century BC – that is, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period – and are complemented by a handful of works of Roman times in those cases where the original creations of earlier periods have survived only in copies.
Kallos is an ideal, developed in ancient Greek thinking and was expressed through the verses of the epic (8th century BC) and lyric (7th – 6th century BC) poets, initially as outward beauty. From the sixth century BC onwards, the concept was crystallized gradually through the texts of the philosophers, who referred to Kallos as a combination of physical appearance and virtues of the soul. It is on this dimension of Kallos that the exhibition of the Museum of Cycladic Art concentrates, enhancing the contribution of ancient Greece to defining the notion of beauty that prevails to this day.
In this exhibition, Kallos is conveyed through a vast wealth and variety of antiquities, such as statues, vases, sherds (broken ceramics), mirrors, jewellery, perfume vases, accessories of the toilette and beautification (cosmetic unguents, pigments, and so on), objects of clay, stone metal and terracottas of various periods, mainly Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic figurines, tools for styling the hair, such as iron scissors, little combs, and so on.
The geographical provenance of the objects was selected on the basis of specific criteria: the exhibits come from all over mainland and island Greece, so as to emphasize the participation of most of the cities of Greek Antiquity and the diffusion of the concept of Kallos to all sectors of society. The exhibition also hosts a corresponding number of antiquities from Magna Graecia, enabling the visitor to comprehend the phenomenon of the dispersion of the notion of Kallos also to the Greek colonies in the West.
The exhibition also includes artifacts from the Vatican Museum, the Archaeological Museums of Florence, Naples, Rome, Bologna, Venice, Syracuse, Catania and the National Archaeological Park of Ostia. From the initial selection of six hundred pieces, three hundred were chosen, as the museological study demanded those that best strengthened each section, in order to make them most intelligible to the public.
An exhibition which highlights the concept of 'kallos', or beauty combined with virtues of the soul in ancient Greek, is opening at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens on Wednesday.
Exploring ancient Greece's contribution to the definitions and the meaning of 'kallos' throughout history, the exhibition features 300 unique archaeological items from museums, ephorates of antiquities and collections in Greece, Italy and the Vatican. Most of these items will be shown outside of their permanent collections for the first time, it was noted in an official announcement.
The exhibition is structured in two major sections, Beautification and Beauty, which then include ten sub-sections that present specific aspects of beauty: Archaic and Classical beauty, beauty of divine entities and gods, the beauty of mortals, athletic beauty, heroic beauty, even demonic beauty and also cosmetic beautification, among others. The word 'kallos' in ancient Greek referred to both males and females.
"This is the first time that an exhibition is being held not for the notion of beauty, but for the concept of kallos," pointed out at a press conference held on Monday professor Nikolaos Stambolidis, who curated the show before being appointed Acropolis Museum director. "Today, beauty only refers to physical beauty of the face or the body, or both, while aspects of 'kallos' mentioned in the Homeric epics are seen very rarely in the modern Greek language," he added.
Kallos runs through to January 16th, 2022 and it is funded by L'Oreal Group.
OPENING HOURS:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 10:00-17:00, Thursday: 10:00-20:00, Sunday: 11:00-17:00, Tuesday: Closed.
Venue:
Neophytou Douka 4, 10674 Athens
BENAKI EXHIB: "THE HOUSE OF MEMORY" (01-11-2022 6:00 pm) The Benaki Museum pays tribute to the Poet George Seferis through a series of events centred around Leda Kontogiannopoulou’s exhibition entitled The House of Memory, at the Benaki Museum Ghika Gallery, which also houses Seferis’ 1963 Nobel Prize.
The House of Memory exhibition represents the completion of a five-year cycle of Lida Kontogiannopoulou’s work. From late 2015 until early 2021, Leda Kontogiannopoulou visited and painted the houses of three eminent personalities of 20th century art: Panayiotis Tetsis, Natalia Mela and George Seferis. The former two she had known personally and spent time with them, but the true star of the exhibition is Seferis’ house, the now legendary “20 Agras Street”.
Kontogiannoupoulou’s paintings of the interiors of these houses are not mere depictions but, in the words of Dimitris Pikionis on Nikos Engonopoulos and his paintings of the facades of Greek Houses, “psychographic representations of houses” with a “penetrating and poetic rendition of the subject”.
The painter draws her references from the disquiet interiors of Edward Hopper, and the peaceful still lifes of Giorgio Morandi.
OPENING HOURS:
Friday, Saturday: 10:00 - 18:00 Closed on Sunday and from Monday to Thursday.
ADDRESS:
3 Kriezotou St., 106 71 Athens.
DETAILS:www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_events&view=event&type=&id=1004836&Itemid=559&lang=en/
|
