On the streets once inhabited by artists such as Elytis, Gatsos, and Koun, a newer generation of visual artists has now found refuge in defunct supermarkets, former garment workshops, and apartments within post-war residential buildings. Will they stay? Or will they be displaced by Airbnb? If Athens is indeed the new Berlin, the news for […]
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For the first time, a work of contemporary art permanently installed in an archaeological site. Among gods and pixels, Sir Antony Gormley’s “Rule II” will reside forever on the sacred island of Delos following NEON’s radical donation that will continue at other archaeological sites. The artist together with the founder of NEON foundation Dimitris Daskalopoulos […]
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Evocative of the ancestral megaliths found in his native northern Spain, Chillida’s art adorns important buildings in Paris, Berlin and Washington, D.C. Alastair Smart celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of the footballer-turned-artist, whose sporting prowess, he said, helped him forge ‘the ability to control space’ As a young man, Eduardo Chillida went by the nickname […]
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FAHRBEREITSCHAFT in Berlin-Lichtenberg is a well-preserved industrial yard with buildings mostly originating from the 1950s, an authentic GDR bar as well as a historic bowling alley. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was the SED Central Committee’s hub of the “Department of Transportation”; high-level passenger transport in and out of the former GDR was […]
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