The Greek Riots: How Did It Come To This?
Region: GreeceOn the fifth day of civil unrest in Greece- the worst the country has seen in decades- one fifteen year old student, the same age incidentally as the young Alexandros Grigoropoulos who has become the symbol of the Greek ri... more
Views: 2220Witnessing the Greek Riots Through Foreign Eyes
Region: Greece
Athens: Last night I saw a nine-year-old boy wearing a black hood, with his mouth covered by a bandana, hurl glass bottles at the riot police in the heart of the anarchist stronghold, Exarchia. It was 2am, and no one seeme... more
Views: 1895Stelios Faitakis on Art
Region: GreeceStelios Faitakis In a country where protest and anarchy are part and parcel of daily life, Greek artist Stelios Faitakis is raising questions in a nation where an emerging generation is desperately seeking social change... more
Views: 3191Tod Papageorge in Black and White
Region: Greece
Tod Papageorge's photographic eye is as fierce as his reputation as the head of Yale University's graduate photography department. Regarded as the bridge between Henri Cartier Bresson's school of the 'decisive moment' and ... more
Views: 1513Carving Beauty
Region: Greece
In the 1990s, there was a surge in cosmetic surgery amongst western women. I blame this on Baywatch. Suddenly, a caricature of what it was to be a woman was becoming a very real and everyday reality. ... more
Views: 1470Destroy Athens; the First Athens Biennial
Region: GreeceChaos precedes creation; mankind understands this. Even modern science states that the Universe began with chaos. Through stories such as Noah’s flood, that erased and rebooted a civilization, and the Greek myt... more
Views: 1669Just How British are the Parthenon Marbles?
Region: GreeceWith the completion of the Acropolis museum in Athens, the argument concerning the Elgin marbles has once again come to the forefront of debate with what is arguably a clear and simple argument. Greece wants them bac... more
Views: 2228Observations from the Urban Field.
Region: GreeceDuring last year’s unusually warm winter, a cockroach society flourished in the dank kitchen of a ground-floor flat in one of the most densely-populated areas of the world, Kypseli. There were roaches in the si... more
Views: 1524For the Sake of Argument: Painting Versus Installation
Region: Greece
The Saatchi Gallery’s exhibition ‘The Triumph of Painting’ confronted the challenges pai... more
Views: 1937…and the times they are a changin: A Eurosceptic accepting the Euro
Region: Greece
Major economic reforms have been taking place in Greece since the early 1990s and one of the strongest catalysts for these changes has been the Euro. In November 2001, the price of a return ticket from Pire... more
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