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Athens, Greece
Benaki Museum
“Nees Morfes” 50 years later
Dates: 23 Sep 09 - 29 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 1, Koumbari Street and Vasilissis Sofias Avenue Athens 10674
Tel: +30 210 367 1000 Website
James Ensor
Dates: 30 Sep 09 - 1 Dec 09
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 1, Koumbari Street and Vasilissis Sofias Avenue Athens 10674
Tel: +30 210 367 1000 Website
Bernier/Eliades Gallery
Gilbert & George
Dates: 19 Nov 09 - 9 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 11 Eptachalkou Street Athens GR-11851
Tel: +30 210 341 3936-7 Website
Frissiras Museum
Edouard Sacaillan: the Look of the Artist
Dates: 18 Sep 09 - 31 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 3 and 7 Monis Asteriou at Kydathineon Street Athens
Tel: +30 210 323 4678 Website
Gagosian Gallery, Athens
Cy Twombly
Dates: 25 Sep 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 3 Merlin Street Athens 10671
Tel: +30 210 36 40 215 Website
National Archaeological Museum
Worshiping women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens
Dates: 20 Jul 09 - 30 Nov 09
Categories: Curious
Address: 44 Patission Street Athens 10682
Tel: +30 210 821 7717 Website
National Gallery Athens
The Birth of Neoclassicism in France: Masterpieces from the Musée du Louvre
Dates: 28 Sep 09 - 11 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: 1 Michalakopoulou Street, 50 Vassilios Constantinou Street Athens GR-115 28
Tel: +30 210 723 5857 Website
National Museum of Contemporary Art
Mark Amerika: Unrealtime
Dates: 22 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: The Athens Concert Hall, Vasilissis Sofias and Kokkali Avenues Athens 11743
Tel: +30 210 924 2111 Website
?.?.?ami: Beyond Silence
Dates: 22 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: The Athens Concert Hall, Vasilissis Sofias and Kokkali Avenues Athens 11743
Tel: +30 210 924 2111 Website
Baltimore, USA
Walters Art Museum
Heroes! Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece
Dates: 11 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 600 North Charles Street Baltimore 21201
Tel: +1 410 547 9000 Website
Hydra, Greece
Slaughterhouse, Deste Foundation Space
Blood of Two: Matthew Barney and Elizabeth Peyton
Dates: 16 Jun 09 - 31 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Hydra Hydra
Tel: +30 210 27 58 490 Website
Following the opening of the Venice Biennale and Art Basel, the Deste Foundation inaugurates its new space on the island of Hydra with a collaborative installation by Matthew Barney and Elizabeth Peyton. Details of the project remain a secret until the opening, but Deste’s exhibition coordinator says it will involve the “the people and the animals of Hydra”. The island’s Ecological Society is cooperating on the project and the only photo released shows scuba divers with what looks like one of Barney’s vitrines. Add to that the location—an old slaughterhouse—and it promises to be an intriguing stop on this summer’s Grand Tour. Helen Stoilas
New York, USA
Onassis Cultural Center
The Origins of El Greco: Icon Painting in Venetian Crete
Dates: 17 Nov 09 - 27 Feb 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: 645 Fifth Avenue New York 10022-5910
Tel: +1 212 486 4448 Website
Tracing the influences of Byzantine and Renaissance art on artist workshops in 15th- and 16th-century Crete—the background in which the old master painter El Greco was trained—this exhibition brings together 46 works that demonstrate the relationship of Cretan icon painters with Western European art. The show includes early works by El Greco as well as panel paintings by his immediate predecessors and contemporary on loan from public and private collections in Greece, Europe, the US and Canada, and many of them traveling to the States for the first time. The show is curated by Dr Anastasia Drandaki, curator of the Byzantine collection at the Benaki Museum, Athens.
St Petersburg, Russia
State Hermitage Museum
Holy Faces: Greek Icons from the Velimezis Collection
Dates: 1 Sep 09 - 13 Dec 09
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Medieval
Address: 2, Dvortsovaya Ploshchad St Petersburg 190000
Tel: +7 812 710 90 79 Website
Following the conversion of medieval Russia to Christianity in 998, its links to Constantinople grew, with Greek architects and artists being invited to the region in its embrace of Byzantine Orthodox culture. The Velimezis Collection of Greek icons dating from the 15th to the 19th century was assembled by Emilios Velimezis (1902-46) between 1934 and 1946 and is now in the hands of the Benaki Museum, Athens, and members of the Velimezis family. This show of 42 icons and three anthivola (preliminary drawings), by painters including El Greco, Emmanuel Tzanes, Leos Moschos and Nikolas Kallergis, is in four rooms close to the Hermitage’s Byzantine galleries, highlighting the intertwined nature of Orthodox Russia and Greece. The show, curated by Yuri Pyatnitsky, senior curator of the Hermitage, is supported by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation. J.H.
Thessaloniki, Greece
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
The First Image
Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 31 Jan 10
Address: Helexpo, 154 Egnatia Street Thessaloniki GR 54636
Tel: +30 2310 240002 Website
Miró and Surrealism
Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Helexpo, 154 Egnatia Street Thessaloniki GR 54636
Tel: +30 2310 240002 Website
The Studio at Majorca in the Photographs of Fransesc Catala
Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Photography
Address: Helexpo, 154 Egnatia Street Thessaloniki GR 54636
Tel: +30 2310 240002 Website
Museum of Byzantine Culture
Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art
Dates: 6 Nov 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Design
Medieval
Address: 2 Stratou Avenue Thessaloniki GR-546 46
Tel: +30 231 0868571-4 Website
Many exhibitions have been dedicated to Byzantine art and culture, but this is the first to focus on the architecture of the empire and how it was reflected in the visual arts. While few buildings remain from the early centuries of the empire, the forms and ideals of Byzantine architecture can still be seen in icons, stone carvings, mosaics and other works of art. Co-organised by the European Center for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments in Thessaloniki and the Princeton University Art Museum (where it goes on display next year), this show brings together about 80 objects from international collections, including the Benaki Museum, Athens, and the Metropolitan Art Museum, New York. The icons, manuscripts, ivories, carved stone and metal objects on view describe a highly spiritual society with a clearly defined religious hierarchy, reflected in the design and use of space in church and secular buildings.
Princeton curator Slobodan Curcic says the show is unique in that “the subject of representation of architecture in Byzantine art has never been articulated as such in scholarship. While it will include some well-known works of Byzantine art, it will also put on display many objects never previously seen in an international context.”
State Museum of Contemporary Art
The Beautiful Is Just the First Degree of the Terrible
Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 21 Kolokotroni Street, Moni Lazariston Thessaloniki 56430
Tel: +30 2310 589140-42 Website
Teloglion Foundation of Art
Mir? of Majorca
Dates: 6 Sep 09 - 5 Feb 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Agiou Demetriou Street Thessaloniki
Tel: +30 2310 247111 Website
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