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In 1938, fearing for their lives amid rising Jewish persecution, Karl and Rosi Adler fled Nazi Germany for then-unoccupied Europe. In order to pay for their short-term visas, they sold one of their prized possessions - a 1904 painting by Pablo Picasso called Woman Ironing. That painting eventually made its way into the collection of the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Now, the heirs of the Adlers want the painting back.
"Voices of the Lost Children of Greece" is a powerful and deeply moving collection of essays that breaks a long silence and gives voice to the voiceless. Thousands of babies and children were sent from Greece to the US, leaving them with the double dislocation of being adopted and losing their birth culture. A powerful book by the "proud Greek, adoptee, adoptee activist" as she describes herself, Mary Cardaras.
Celebrating Louis Vuitton’s second collaboration with the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, the Champs-Élysées flagship store got a massive makeover with a gigantic Yayoi Kusama sculpture peering over the building.
The British Museum and Athens’ Acropolis Museum are nearing a deal that would see the Parthenon Sculptures returned to Greece over time as part of a cultural exchange, Bloomberg reported yesterday, Tuesday.
Here are five common traditions practiced in Greece throughout the holiday season that make the Greek Christmas different!
A Sanskrit grammatical problem which has perplexed scholars since the 5th Century BC has been solved by a University of Cambridge PhD student.
From 20 December 2022 until 26 March 2023, following the initiative of the Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation, the Acropolis Museum presents the emblematic exhibition titled “Raiment of the Soul”, in collaboration with the National Historical Museum of Athens.
The exhibition Thessaloniki 1922: Monuments and Refugees, takes visitors through the city’s long history as a haven for refugees, focusing on the role of the city’s monuments as shelters. Organised by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Thessaloniki City, on the occasion of the centenary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe, it is hosted at the Rotunda, in the heart of the city, until 31 December 2022.
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