Eleni Karaindrou, globally renowned film, television and theatre composer was honoured at the World Soundtrack Awards with the Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding achievements in film music.&n…
Greek News Agenda publishes an article by Dr. Alexandra Kouroutaki* written on the occasion of the celebrations for the Bicentenary of the Greek Revolution (in accordance with the third of the four pillars set by the Committee "Greece 2021": "Greeks…
Today marks the 48th anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic Uprising, a student-led demonstration against the military dictatorship (also known as “junta” or the “Regime of the Colonels”) that ruled Greece from 1967 to 197…
George Bouzianis (1885-1959) is considered as one of the “three fathers” of Modern Greek art (the other two being Parthenis and Maleas) and Greece’s foremost expressionist painter. On the occasion of his 62nd birth anniversary (mark…
The Athens Biennial, one of the most significant periodic international events of contemporary culture in Greece, returns for its seventh edition (Sep 24 – Nov 28, 2021) with an exciting program, featuring more than 450 works by 80 ar…
No other painter of Greek descent shares the renown of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, universally known as "El Greco". Evidently classic and irrefutably modern, his visionary work is continuously rediscovered and reevaluated as a paradigm of genius, origi…
This year’s Thessaloniki International Fair (85th TIF) is dedicated to “Greece’s Past, Present, and Future” within the framework of the country’s 200th anniversary since the Greek Revolution. As the fair concludes on Sun…
The exhibition "1821, The Feast" is one of the many cultural events taking place in Athens to commemorate Greece’s Bicentennial. The show – running through 10 October 2021- is organized by the Benaki Museum in collaboration with the Socia…
Greece’s peak summer season is here and among the world-renowned Greek artists that have best captured summer moments in his paintings is Alekos Fassianos. In fact, "Fassianos’ mythology was shaped by the Greek summer" as poet and art his…
One of the exhibitions worth visiting this Summer is “Yannis Gaitis’, the Crowd and Loneliness” which will be running through October 2021 at the Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa- G.I. Katsigras Museum. The show, which is co-curated…
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