The Art Newspaper

Stop and Gogo

By The Art Newspaper. From In The Frame
Published online: 30 September 2009

Not everyone in the Greek art world was thrilled with the opening of mega-dealer Larry Gagosian’s Athens outpost this month. According to Greek newspaper Kathimerini, Nikolaos Damalitis a senior official in charge of the construction of the new Acropolis Museum, has complained about the pedestrianised Dionysiou Areopagitou Street being used as a makeshift car park. The street was clogged with dozens of cars last Thursday when Gagosian hosted a dinner party celebrating the gallery’s opening and inaugural show, “Cy Twombly: Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves” at the museum’s rooftop restaurant. “Police should issue tickets for traffic offenders in such situations and, if that didn’t happen last Thursday, then maybe there had been some kind of agreement made in advance,” Damalitis said. “In any case, this is something we disapprove of.”