Rome to display ancient Greek silverware
(Washington Post) Mar 19, 2010
Ancient Greek artworks - pieces of silverware with gold detail dating to the third century B.C. - are going on display in Rome after being returned by the Metropolitan Museum in New York....

‘Skin Fruit’ in the Big Apple
(eKathimerini) Mar 19, 2010
Exhibition of works from the Dakis Joannou collection on display at city’s New Museum of Contemporary Art...

Greek artistry envoys in Milan
(eKathimerini) Mar 16, 2010
The third Milano Incontra la Grecia festival ends successfully, with theater, music and dance...

Stranger than fiction: Docs in Thessaloniki
(eKathimerini) Mar 10, 2010
A documentary about a wacky Japanese inventor holding more than 3,000 patents will raise the curtain on the annual Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF) which opens on Friday...

Oscar Wrap-Up: Why Avatar Lost
(Time) Mar 08, 2010
All night long, the jokes kept coming on the same subjects: Avatar this, George Clooney that. Sandra Bullock, accepting her award for Best Actress, acknowledged "all the people who didn't" help her, including "George Clooney, who threw me in a pool....

Sandra Bullock to display Oscar next to Razzie
(BBC) Mar 08, 2010
Best actress winner Sandra Bullock has said she will put her Oscar statuette on display next to her worst actress Razzie award....

'Locker' takes best director, picture
(CNN) Mar 08, 2010
The final score: David 6, Goliath 3. "The Hurt Locker" earned six Oscars at the 82nd annual Academy Awards Sunday night, taking home the biggest prize -- best picture....

New beginning for Cacoyannis
(eKathimerini) Mar 05, 2010
Foundation’s cultural center in Athens to open officially on March 9 with presidential pomp and ceremony...

Roman Polanski wins best director award at Berlin
(BBC) Feb 21, 2010
Roman Polanski has won the Silver Bear for best director at the Berlin Film Festival for his new political thriller, The Ghost Writer....

A Norwegian director in Athens
(eKathimerini) Feb 18, 2010
Eirik Stubo puts on Henrik Ibsen’s ‘The Lady from the Sea’ at National Theater’s Central Stage...

Getty, Sicilian officials launch art collaboration
(Associated Press) Feb 18, 2010
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Sicilian cultural ministry will collaborate to conserve art objects, stage exhibitions and do scholarly research....

The written word seen as art
(eKathimerini) Feb 17, 2010
The Hellenic American Union recently inaugurated a group exhibition of Greek artists inspired by the written word. “In-scribe” runs at the Hellenic American Union until March 9....

Getty ordered to return priceless Greek bronze to Italy
(AFP) Feb 12, 2010
An Italian court Thursday ordered the J. Paul Getty Museum to repatriate a priceless bronze statue, but the prestigious Los Angeles institution vowed to fight what it called a "flawed" ruling....

Greek artists on new stamps
(eKathimerini) Feb 10, 2010
A new series of stamps pays tribute to six major Greek artists. The “Greek Art” series, which will be made available by the Hellenic Post as of tomorrow are dedicated to works by Yiannis Gaitis, Nikos Engonopoulos, Yiannis Moralis, Yannis Tsarouchis...

Edward Albee classic takes Athenian stage
(eKathimerini) Feb 10, 2010
How is it that you never get tired of watching a play in which the lead characters are being brutally cruel to each other? “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” is one of those classic contemporary plays....