‘Medea’ gets audience riled up
(eKathimerini) Aug 20, 2008
Anatoly Vasiliev’s direction is met with jeers, despite a truly heroic interpretation by Lydia Koniordou...

Classical music in Ermoupolis
(eKathimerini) Aug 19, 2008
Yiannos Margaziotis talks about the 4th Cyclades International Festival, which opens tonight...

Benaki Museum has plenty in store for fall
(eKathimerini) Aug 14, 2008
Three major exhibitions are set to open in September...

Dear Nia Vardalos, about those columns
(Christian Science Monitor) Aug 13, 2008
A moviegoer hopes that in Nia Vardalos's latest film, she will correct a mistake about the Parthenon's columns....

Art spanning broad range of styles, eras
(eKathimerini) Aug 13, 2008
The paintings of Marios Prasinos that are on display in Ermoupoli on Syros provide a unique opportunity to get to know the work of a famous Greek painter who was born in Constantinople, lived in Paris, and experienced the upheavals of the 20th century at ...

Byzantine music gets jazzed up
(eKathimerini) Aug 12, 2008
Vassilis Tsabropoulos and Anja Lechner discuss their new ECM-released album ‘Melos’...

August full moon music
(eKathimerini) Aug 11, 2008
Three archaeological sites around Corinth will host classical concerts...

Reflective art by Danae Stratou
(eKathimerini) Aug 07, 2008
Seven letters, made out of shining, stainless sheet-iron, are placed on the ground in a circle that reads «Breathe.» Because of the material from which they are made, the letters' surface reflects the natural environment....

Oedipus double bill at Epidaurus
(eKathimerini) Aug 06, 2008
Roula Pateraki tells Kathimerini what it is like staging two of Sophocles’ tragedies together...

Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
(BBC) Aug 04, 2008
Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed the horrors of Stalin's prison system, dies at the age of 89....

Artists’ dialogues in Shanghai
(eKathimerini) Aug 01, 2008
New and past works by Greek and Chinese creators at the Museum of Contemporary Art...

Artist’s bond with island of Sifnos
(eKathimerini) Jul 31, 2008
There was a surprise for artist Panayiotis Tetsis at the opening of his exhibition of Sifnos landscapes, which took place last Saturday in the island village of Kastro’s old school. In the presence of his friends and students as well as locals, he was n...

Ancient drama off to Beijing
(eKathimerini) Jul 30, 2008
Held on the occasion of the Cultural Year of Greece events, an exhibition curated by Spyros Mercouris...

Tony Vavatsikos Passes Away
Jul 29, 2008
Singer Toni Vavatsikos passed away in an ambulance that while transferred from Agios Ioannis, Pilio to Volos Hospital on Monday....

Greek museums slowly catching on to opportunities offered by the Internet
(eKathimerini) Jul 29, 2008
Despite a slow start, the country’s institutions have made important progress on the Web...