Home >Culture > Archive     Culture archive 3/2/03   Costa Gavras has last word   Greek director's WWII film speaks of the evil of silence 30/11/03   Beaton’s Seferis   George Seferis’ biographer, Roderick Beaton, speaks to GreeceNow about his book, its sources and his beloved poet 31/10/03   In the mood for cinema   Counting days for the curtain, 44th International Thessaloniki Film Festival boasts 160 films 31/10/03   Heritage defenders   Rodos island hosts 7th international Symposium of the Organization of World Heritage Cities 30/10/03   Seven-day art going, going…   The era has long past, but the art of giant cinema posters is also nearly extinct 2/10/03   Ancient renaissance   Ancient revival, winding up for a decade, set to reach its peak at the Athens Olympic Games 02/10/03   History's take-off   A new museum at the Athens International Aiport showcases the region's 3,000-year old history 01/09/03   Antonis Samarakis: 1919 - 2003   Greece's best-loved contemporary author dies at 84, leaving behind a humanistic message 01/09/03   Beyond popcorn   Everything, from Cocteau to ‘indies’, at the 9th Athens International Film Festival 05/05/03   Arty Union   As the Greek six-month-long EU Presidency draws to an end, cultural events around Europe abound 03/04/03   Greece on Screen   Travelling festival showcases the best of Greek cinema 03/04/03   Joint venture could solve Marbles deadlock   Greece offers annex of new Acropolis Museum to the British Museum to host exhibition 31/03/03   The real thing   Thessaloniki's five-year-old documentary film festival grows steadily in duration and quality 15/02/03   Ugly Athens?   Architects look at the rapidly changing face of the Greek capital 30/01/03   Minoan vessel resurfaces   Group of experts are building a Bronze Age boat in Crete from the scantest of clues 30/01/03   Northern, Southern tunes   The concert halls of Athens and Thessaloniki greet February and March with a plethora of events 21/01/03   2004 unveil olive-leaf torch   Olympic flame to cross all five continents en route to Athens 17/12/02   Making a modern case for the classics   US professor sees a place for Greek and Latin on the contemporary curriculum 17/12/02   Weight of tradition   How ancient Greeks had the jump on modern athletes when it came to sports science 28/11/02   Movie haven   Art films blossom, crowds flock at 43rd Thessaloniki Film Festival 28/11/02   Council colours   Greek Parliament invites laymen to an art exhibition showcasing its brand new collection 21/11/02   Marbles could return in loan deal   Pressure mounts for British Museum to agree to cultural exchange offer 20/11/02   Ancient Scroll May Be Oldest Known Book of Greek Poetry   Classicist Says Discovery Vindicates Her Theory of Early Hellenistic Tomes 22/10/02   Goddess of persuasion steps into marbles campaign   Italy's offer to send Parthenon fragment of Goddess Peitho home could set precedent 14/10/02   Breaking the veils   Rhodes exhibition uses art to break stereotypes of women in Islam 27/09/02   'Tis the season for cinema   Autumn brings four film festivals devoted to documentaries, ecology, shorts and cutting-edge fiction 13/09/02   An Abandoned Land   The Hodge award goes to portfolio on Northern Epirus 29/08/02   Athens: The Director's Cut   Panos Koutras 29/08/02   Athens: The Director's Cut   Angelos Frantzis 29/08/02   Athens: The Director's Cut   Eva Stefani 29/08/02   Athens: The Director's Cut   Ilias Dimitriou 29/08/02   Athens: The Director's Cut   GreeceNow joins four young filmmaker's to take a look at the Greek capital through a camera lens 29/07/02   Miro, Miro on the wall   Museum of Contemporary Art on the island of Andros hosts the works of Catalan artist Joan Miro 29/07/02   Graffiti Olympics   Graffiti artists from Greece and abroad add some youthful intensity to the Cultural Olympiad 29/07/02   Lakeside meeting   Twelve-year-old Prespes 2002 festival incorporated in Cultural Olympiad's programme 25/06/02   Museum with a view   New Acropolis Museum architect Bernard Tschumi speaks to Greece Now about his Parthenon 'glass house' 16/06/02   Drawing with light   Improve your photography in a country with all the natural advantages 20/05/02   Trailblazing boards   Through interaction, amateur input and ideological pursuits local theatre production treads new ground 25/04/02   Fastest brush in town   Recently crowned Sport Artist of the Year 2002, Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki talks art and Olympics 15/04/02   Greece: Marshall Plan to the Truman Doctrine   Unseen archive material sheds new light on origins of post-war US-Greek relations 02/04/02   The War Papers   New Greek publication underlines importance of WWII diaspora press 16/03/02   Cheap, promising 'Morphine'   New Greek indie film looks at being young, nearly homeless and on the edge 16/03/02   Virtual Olympics   Foundation of Hellenic World enlivens Olympics through multimedia educational programme 14/03/02   Glass of the Sultans   Benaki Museum hosts extraordinary exhibit of fragile Islamic masterpieces 28/02/02   Subtracting ads   Billboards coming down in city centre to reveal glimpses of classical Athens 22/02/02   Home from home   Tsitos' 'My Sweet Home' making an impact in Germany ahead of Greek release 20/02/02   Reclaiming Bactria   Greek archaeological mission heads to Kabul in search of lost Bactrian treasures 20/02/02   Sampling a nation's sounds   Contemporary and multifarious Greek music showcased in new international 'ethnic music' CD 30/01/02   Digital poets' society   Contemporary Greek poetry featured on bilingual CD-Rom through the work of 180 poets 30/01/02   A trilogy and a day   Filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos embarks on high-budget three-part romantic epic 30/01/02   Robotics meet Byzantium   State-of-the-art technology enters Athens museum to guide on-site and virtual visitors 30/01/02   February tunes   Guitar and chamber music tributes, opera and great orchestras parade this month at Megaron 30/01/02   Northern sonorous gems   One-year-old Thessaloniki Concert Hall kicks off 2002 with a selective yet ambitious programme 24/01/02   An audience with Diamanda Galas   The singer-songwriter who mixes blues with Greek 'amanedes' 20/12/01   'Tears' after 'Safe Sex'   New film 'Silicon Tears' parodies Greek cinemas 1960s melodramas 20/12/01   Historic hotel begins modern makeover   Athens' Grande Bretagne begins renovation in time for 2004 20/12/01   Mediterranean centre stage   Actress Irene Papas named European Woman of 2002 for creating cultural network 20/12/01   Mystery train   For the third consecutive season an Athens train-turned-into-theatre stages 'The Lady Vanishes' 02/12/01   Harry Potter to be published in ancient Greek   Publishers to use phenomenal success of schoolboy wizard to rekindle interest in ancient language 01/12/01   Film-less cinema   Thessaloniki to get Greece's first digital movie theatre 26/11/01   Cultural Olympiad   The full programme from music and theatre to museums and conferences 21/11/01   The art of silence   Innovative drama school trains professional actors and supports the Theatre for the Deaf 28/10/01   Eco-friendly flicks   New Zakynthos documentrary festival spotlights local turtles and distant rainforests 28/10/01   Song with a cause   George Dalaras and Emma Shapplin voice their support for refugees 04/10/01   Theodorakis operas headline Cultural Olympiad   Composer's lesser-known works to take centre stage leading up to 2004 30/09/01   Antiquity meets 2004   Ancient stadium at Asklepios Sanctuary to be restored for use in 2004 25/09/01   Online bookworms   Author Christos Homenidis 'signs' Greece's first interactive novel on the Internet 25/09/01   Training the translators   European centre aims to educate the next generaton of world-class translators 25/09/01   Walking the Acropolis walk   Central Athens street under the Acropolis turns into noise- and traffic-free retreat 31/08/01   Archaeology of yesterday   Recovering addicts produce photographic tribute to Piraeus industrial architecture 25/08/01   Toulouse-Lautrec's summer home   'Myth of a woman' exhibition takes centre stage at Andros' Goulandris museum 23/08/01   Shalom, Thessaloniki   New museum honouring Jewish history opens doors in the city once known as the 'mother of Israel' 10/07/01   Dancing city   7th Kalamata Dance Festival brings local and international talent to town 10/07/01   The bloody trilogy   Yannis Kokkos makes his directorial debut in his homeland with Aeschylus' 'Oresteia' 30/06/01   Mythodea meets Olympian Zeus   Vangelis symphony strikes a controversial note at ancient Athens temple 27/06/01   Summer events guide   Full listings of all major summer performances in and around Athens 27/06/01   Summer events guide   Full listings of all major summer performances in and around Athens 30/05/01   Life after the Oscars   Christina Lazaridi's screenwriting career begins at the top with Oscar nomination 30/05/01   Cacoyannis retrospective   GreeceNow catches up with the acclaimed director after two landmark tributes in Athens 30/05/01   Byzantine renaissance   Biggest ever exhibit on Byzantium in store as museum renovation nears completion 30/05/01   Marble talk   UNESCO adopts cause for the return of Parthenon Marbles to Greece 30/05/01   Greek sounds mingle in world music   Greek artists make inroads into the international market as audiences look for new sounds and styles 23/05/01   National legends   Tribute to Mercouri, Callas, Cavafy, Kazantzakis and other Greek greats of the 20th century 29/04/01   Karaghiozis grows up   The grumbling everyman of Greek shadow theatre is flesh and blood hero of new production 22/04/01   The art of tolerance   First international Greek art festival takes bite out of racism 20/04/01   Mourning Rock   Remarkable documentary builds on domestic success to approach an international audience 19/04/01   Maysles steals the show   Veteran director delights all at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 28/03/01   Europa Nostra hail Parthenon craftsman   Iannis Arbilias' restoration work recognised with first-ever federation award to a Greek 25/03/01   Prose's solitary 'monk'   150 years since the birth of celebrated Greek novelist Alexandros Papadiamandis 25/03/01   Decade's curtain   Athens Concert Hall bids farewell to 2001 season with star-studded productions 15/03/01   Reclaiming a Jewish past   A treasure trove of stolen documents from Thessaloniki's Jewish community are coming home 29/02/01   Battle of the sexes   Notos Theatre's 'Much Ado About Nothing' reminds us that sex comedy has been around a lot longer than we have 28/02/01   Thessaloniki documentary festival   Preview of March's international screenings in Greece's second city 25/02/01   Religion rocks   A group of orthodox monks that take an 'unorthodox' approach to spreading the word 20/02/01   The art of conservation   Restoration students and staff prepare multi-lingual dictionary of conservation terms 15/02/01   Greece in Frankfurt   Greek books, art, music and history will parade this year at Frankfurt's annual book fair 15/02/01   Surrealist's centenary   Redeeming the work of Andreas Embeirikos, one of Greece's neglected poets 15/02/01   The dandy photographer   The flamboyant gaze of Sir Cecil Beaton exhibited in central Athens 15/02/01   Greek-Swedish dance mix   Sweden-born Greek duo introduce popular Greek music to the international clubbing scene 25/01/01   Nobel-winning speeches   Greek book on speeches of the 20th- century's literature Nobel laureates 25/01/01   Festival 2001   Full listings for the Greek Festival, cultural highlight of the summer 20/01/01   Art's renovated home   Following major renovation the National Art Gallery inaugurates its permanent collection 18/01/01   Aeolian Olympic rings   Artist Takis' sculpture donated to the National Gallery 20/12/0011   Bibliophile's dream   Greek input in the revival of the famed Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Alexandria Library) 31/12/00   Sound investment   One man's dream of preserving the unique sounds and instruments from Greece's rich musical heritage 20/12/00   Poetry meets Olympics   Poet Titos Patrikios takes over where filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis left off, as head of Athens 2004 Cultural Olympiad 26/11/00   The last resort   Thessaloniki film festival's international competition looks at life on the margin of society 25/11/00   Art Athina   Athens art fair makes room for some outside influences 25/11/00   Keitel's gaze   The omnipresent Angelopoulos renews an old acquaintance in Thessaloniki 25/11/00   Two's company   From buddy movies to bouzouki nights, Thessaloniki's Greek awards are dominated by two films 15/11/00   Manhattan goes Greek   New US affiliate of Onassis Foundation launches cultural mission with ancient and modern Greek art 27/10/00   Greek encore for London playwright   Athens' 'Ashes to Ashes' actors pass Pinter test 24/10/00   Megaron galore   Everything, from world-renowned orchestras to black light theatre and opera, make up the first quarter of the new season at the Athens Megaron Moussikis 23/10/00   Carving out a new approach   Separating Elgin from the Parthenon Marbles 23/10/00   Northern symphony   Opening season for the brand new Megaron Moussikis of Thessaloniki 19/10/00   Interactive Fix   Exhibit showcases young Greek artists' approach to meeting points of technology and art 01/10/00   Conservative sex in Drama   Short film festival is long on physical love 12/09/00   Artistic slumming   Gallery scene takes lead in transformation of inner city area 07/09/00   Aristophanes at the bourse   The State Theatre of Northern Greece looks at the current stock market craze through Aristophanes' ageless comedy Plutus 05/09/00   Golden ivy league   Ancient Macedonian wreath found accidentally in a field in northern Greece raises speculation for further findings in the area 03/09/00   Q&A with Vassilis Vassilikos   Author becomes Greece's voice on cultural diversity 15/08/00   A Chinese odyssey   Unique translation delivers the works of Homer to the reading public of China 15/08/00   Underground culture   Expanded Byzantine Christian Museum set to shed light on two millennia of art 15/08/00   New World order   Creative young group inject fresh blood into Athens' theatre scene 14/08/00   Grassroots graphics   A photojournalist's year-long journey into Greek amateur football 14/08/00   Re-unification