Hackitectura
How can the new commons be mapped on the urban environment? How can their dynamic by located? What is their role in the life of the contemporary metropolis?
The National Museum of Contemporay Art will be hosting from the 1st of December 2010 until the 23rd of January 2011 the project Mapping the Commons, Athens by [...]
Frances Rich – La Gazelle
Exhibition for the life and art of Frances Rich
The exhibition entitled “Frances Rich – La Gazelle” is featuring works by Rich herself and works by other famous colleagues of hers such as Diego Rivera, Alexander Jacovleff, William Abbot Cheever, Malvina Hoffman, Geza Kende, and Clarence R. Mattic. The exhibition is organized by Deree College and [...]
Edvard Munch, Beyond the Scream
The Herakleidon Museum in Athens, Greece presents the exhibition “Edvard Munch, Beyond the Scream” which will be on display from 26 November 2010 until 27 February 2011 and includes 80 graphic works of Edvard Munch from the Collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art – Gift of Charles and Evelyn Kramer, New York. The [...]
Time, People, Their stories
The exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece attempts to create a discourse between recorded history and that which remains unwritten, between the official story and the traces of small everyday stories through time; traces that become documents for the scholars of the future or that provide a starting point for the creativity of [...]
Who’s Right? Repatriation of Cultural Property
Two experts debate whether art and artifacts should be repatriated
By Malcolm Bell III
Malcolm Bell III is professor emeritus in the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia. He specializes in Greek art archaeology and serves as co-director of the Morgantina excavations in Sicily.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines “repatriate” as “to restore (an artifact [...]
New Film Offers Pearls of Art from Lives of Iranian Women
Filmmaker Robert Adanto says he is fascinated by the Iranian art featured in his new documentary, but even more by the women who have created that art and their view of the Iranian society in which they live — or which they have left behind.
“I just wanted to stick with looking at the art as [...]
Jim Shaw at the Bernier-Eliades Gallery
The Bernier-Eliades Gallery in Athens, Greece, presents an exhibition by the American artist Jim Shaw from 7 October to 18 November. Jim Shaw belongs to the generation of American artists that have shaped the cultural west coast of the USA since the late ’80s till today. His work is interwoven with American pop culture elements [...]
The Politics of Art at EMST
For the celebration of the 10 years of EMST’s operation and the building of a collection, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, is staging a large-scale exhibition with approximately 100 works from 38 artists titled The Politics of Art from 13 October 2010 until 30 January 2011.
The aim of the exhibition, [...]
Picturing America
“Picturing America” is a traveling exhibition of 40 framed reproductions of significant American art (paintings, fine crafts, sculpture, photography and architecture) and will run from October 18-28 at the Apollo Cultural Center in Piraeus.
“Picturing America” showcases the United States’ artistic heritage. The images span several centuries and feature artists ranging from early American Indian [...]
Michael Craig-Martin in Athens
I want my paintings to be simple enough to seem obvious but complex enough to provide a variety of avenues for imaginative and aesthetic play.
–Michael Craig-Martin
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Michael Craig-Martin. This is his first solo exhibition in Greece.
In his early work, Craig-Martin often incorporated readymades into [...]
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