Breathtaking Athens

The Numismatic Museum in Athens, Greece is organising a temporary exhibition entitled "Found underneath a tree root ..." Ancient Greek Coin Hoards in the Athens Numismatic Museum".

The exhibition aspires to convey the visitor from the mythology surrounding the ancient treasures to the richness of the ancient coin hoards kept at the Numismatic Museum.

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Apokries is the Carnival time for Athens, Greece. A celebration for people of all ages, it harmoniously blends traditions with contemporary ideas and events that appeal to all citizens, children and city visitors. The Carnival period in Athens, Greece lasts for three weeks, and it's non-stop party time before the restrictions of Lent. In 2011 Carnival runs from Sunday 12th February to Sunday 6th March.

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The George Economou Collection will be on display for the first time at The Municipal Gallery of Athens, Greece. Its strength is characterised by range, broadness and diversity of modern paintings, drawings and sculptures.

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On Friday 4 February 2011, between 20.00 and 22.00, Kalfayan Galleries in Athens, Greece (11 Haritos St., Kolonaki) will present the first solo exhibition in Greece of works by the Iranian artist Ala Dehghan titled The Upside-down Scenery, curated by Vali Mahlouji . The artist lives and works in Tehran and Karaj.

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The exhibition "PARIS 1900, Art Nouveau and Modernism - Treasures from the Petit Palais, City of Paris Fine Art Museum" at National Gallery, in Athens, Greece, transports us to the French capital of the Belle Époque through works of French art from the collections of the Petit Palais, with their unique evocation of the bourgeois and lower-class Paris of the 1880-1914 period.

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The Onassis Cultural Center in Athens, Greece presents the RootlessRoot, Eyes in the Colors of the Rain. With the body as their Alpha and Omega, Linda Kapetanea and Josef Fruček's every choreographic endeavour sets out to explore their personal style in movement.

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The B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music in Athens, Greece presents the exhibition Obsessions and intimacy: The body in contemporary austrian drawings - From Alfred Kubin to Birgit Jürgenssen.

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The biggest and most historic park in Athens, the Pedio tou Areos park, has been renovated and restructured under the directions of architect Alexandros Tombazis and offered to the visitors and inhabitants of the City of Athens.

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The Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Greece presents the Camerata on Period Instruments, Johann Sebastian Bach and Greek Mythology on January 25th. Renewing his long-standing relationship with the Camerata, Alexandros Myrat will be conducting the orchestra on period instruments for the first time. Alongside him, six distinguished Greek soloists lend their voices to the mythic heroes.

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The Hellenic American Union in Athens, Greece presents the exhibition Intake by the young visual artist Theodoros Zafeiropoulos. Having as a starting point the two art projects Please Me and Fall in Love with the Log, developed in the period 2007-2009 in the United States, the exhibition Intake features two installations from the resulting material of these two projects. The exhibition opens on Monday, January 10, at the Hellenic American Union galleries. Sotirios Bahtsetzis curates the exhibition.

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Kalfayan Galleries in Athens, Greece presents an exhibition of works by Alexis Akrithakis. The show is one of the annual exhibitions held by Kalfayan Galleries dedicated to the most important Greek representatives of Modernism. Pivotal work of this exhibition will be Akrithakis' remarkable installation titled "The Bar" which was first shown at the Bernier Gallery in Athens in 1981. Until recently it was in an American collection and has recently found its way back to Greece.

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The National Museum of Contemporay Art in Athens, Greece will be hosting from the 1 December 2010 until the 23 January 2011 the project Mapping the Commons, Athens by the Spanish collective Hackitectura. The project is part of the EMST New Commissions 2010 for the Project Room of the museum.

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The Museum of Cycladic Art, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Superintendence of Antiquities in Tuscany, presents a masterly bronze statue and its bronze replica, as restored in the late 18th century. The exhibition at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece will last fro 18 November to 30 January. The bronze statue of the goddess Athena (1,90m. high, including its base) was accidentally discovered in 1541 in Arezzo, Italy

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A solo retrospective of the oeuvre of Manolis Baboussis, an artist known for his definitive take on contemporary photography from the start of the 1970s. The exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece includes 45 photographic images and 2 video projections of photographs, drawn from the artist's entire output, focusing particularly on the core of his oeuvre from 2003 to the present day.

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The Plissken festival 2010 will present some of the best contemporary and up and coming bands of recent years on 4 December at Building 56 of the Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Centre in Athens. The doors of the Plissken festival 2010 will open at 12:15 and the festival will conclude in the early hours of the following day. The lineup of this pioneering festival includes some of the freshest and up and coming bands now on the scene.

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It will be a concert that is sure to draw the attention of serious music lovers: the Mariinsky Orchestra from St Petersburg, which the British press has placed among the top 10 orchestras in the world, will be appearing at the Megaron-Athens Concert Hall on 8 & 9/12 under the direction of Valery Gergiev. They will be presenting work by Gustav Mahler, with the internationally known violinist Leonidas Kavakos in the Concerto for violin, Op. 35, by Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky.

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In parallel with the main exhibition, the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, in collaboration with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism, is staging a presentation of objects from Greek Neolithic sites of the same period for comparative reasons. The presentation, which features 90 exhibits from several museums, explores the similarities and the differences between Greece and the Balkans during the 5th and 4th millennium BC. The exhibition will last until 10 January 2011.

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The Herakleidon Museum in Athens, Greece presents the exhibition "Edvard Munch, Beyond the Scream" which will be on display from 26 November 2010 until 27 February 2011 and includes 80 graphic works of Edvard Munch from the Collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art - Gift of Charles and Evelyn Kramer, New York.

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It's Showtime in Athens 2010 is a fact, and the Peace & Friendship - SEF stadium on 11 December is going to host the elite champions of kickboxing in the world. Tokyo, Amsterdam and now it's time for the country who gave birth to the Olympic Games to receive the baton. It's Showtime in Athens 2010 is a unique combination of show, entertainment and elite kickboxing.

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Athens is a special Christmas destination, as it continually becomes more exciting and spectacular each year. Christmas in Athens showcases an elaborate list of “winter wonderlands” that young and old anticipate and enjoy. Towering Christmas trees, holiday performances, ice-skating rinks, jolly Santas, magically-lit boulevards, and ornate department store displays begin in mid-November and last through early January.

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