Nelly’s Santorini Photographic Journey (1928-1932): The Aegean in Black and White
About 100 years ago, Greek photographer Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari (1899-1998), –better known...
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Serifos: The Intangible Cultural Heritage of Its Mining Activity
Serifos, a small island in the western Cyclades, has a long history tied to its iron and copper...
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Poliochne on the Island of Lemnos: The Earliest Evidence of Social and Civic Structure in Europe
Ancient Poliochne, on the east coast of the North Aegean island of Lemnos is considered one of the...
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The “Syrmata” of Milos: Adaptive Architecture and Cultural Heritage
The “syrmata” (wires) buildings on the island of Milos are traditional small, single-room...
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The Museum of Aegean Boatbuilding and Maritime Crafts and the Wooden Boatbuilding School in Samos: the revival of Greek traditional boatbuilding
The craft of building wooden boats is a living tradition that has been practiced across all Greece...
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Erieta Attali “Mental geographies and imaginary maps have shaped my visual language and subject matter”
Internationally acclaimed photographer Erieta Attali presents Delos: Land Adrift at the Benaki Museum. The exhibition offers a rare visual exploration of Delos, the legendary birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, revealing a metaphysically elusive site through its materiality and myth. The artist invite...
Reading Greece: Christos Siorikis on the Meeting Point between Inner Landscapes and the Surrounding Environment
Christos Siorikis (1989) grew up in Agrinio and lives in Athens. He works as a Spanish teacher and translator. His poetry collection The First Time (Antipodes, 2018) was nominated for the Anagnostis literary magazine award for best poetry debut. He has translated works by Julio Cortázar, Eduardo Ga...
Dimitris Anastasiou: “Art is a concealment that aims at some kind of revelation”
Renowned for his unique fusion of realism and dreamlike surrealism, Dimitris Anastasiou stands out as a significant figure in contemporary Greek art. Whether through paintings, polyptychs, or graphic novels, Anastasiou’s work consistently evokes an atmosphere of cinematic stillness, existential ...