Anton Chekhov in Yalta, 1900; Charles Dickens at Antoine Francois Jean Claudet’s London studio, circa 1852 Why do we categorize novels? Fantasy, Chick Lit, Crime, Romance, Literary, Gothic, Feminist… Is it the better to find what we want, on the carefully labelled shelves of our bookshops? So that the reading experience won’t, after all, be […]
GNTO President Angela Gerekou, National Theatre President Vassilis Poulantzas, and its artistic director Dimitris Lignadis sign the MoU. Greece’s National Theater and the Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) have joined forces for the promotion of the country through culture particularly in the aftermath of the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis. In this direction, the
Plaka, the gate of Athena Archegetis in the Roman Agora. Photo © Facebook – ΟΙ ΟΜΟΡΦΙΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ ΜΑΣ The Greek Culture Ministry said on Monday that it would be launching on July 18, a new program of cultural events to be held in open spaces, including archaeological sites and museum yards, in order to […]
The disease that has put the entire world on pause is easily communicable, capable of stowing silently away in certain hosts and killing others, and, to the human eye, entirely invisible. In media parlance it’s become our “invisible enemy”: a nightmarish, oneiric force that can’t be seen, heard, or touched. But with the use of […]
© ZOOM Kindermuseum, Vienna. Image: Alexandra Eizinger The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic that forced people to stay home also led museums in Europe to think out of the box. In efforts to redefine the museum experience, more than 650 museums from 41 countries participated in a survey carried out by the Network of European Museum Organizations […]
Suspected communists under armed guard, Jakarta, Indonesia, December 1, 1965 In May 1962, a girl named Ing Giok Tan got on a rusty old boat in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her country, one of the largest in the world, had been pulled into the global battle between capitalism and communism, and her parents decided to flee the […]
D.M. Smith/Imperial War Museums/Getty Images. British soldiers taking cover in a shell hole near Arnhem, the Netherlands, September 17, 19449 The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II by Antony Beevor Viking, 459 pp., $35.00; $18.00 (paper) They were better. Man for man, German soldiers fought more effectively in World War […]
Mondadori Portfolio/Electa/Bruno Balestrini via Bridgeman Images Detail from Simone Martini’s Blessed Agostino Novello altarpiece, 1325–1328 One of the first things I read about China’s coronavirus outbreak were the divorces: the many couples who supposedly emerged from quarantine no longer able to tolerate each other. These reports seemed apocryphal, or at best
Tourist guides in Greece have been informed on new rules to follow when giving guided tours at archaeological sites and museums in Greece during the post-coronavirus period. The rules are aimed at their safety from infections and for the health protection of tourists in their groups, individual visitors and staff at archaeological sites and museums […]
The Municipality of Athens has announced that it will allocate resources and offer its venues to support culture and artists that have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. “Culture moves and unites us. Concerts, festivals, performances and exhibitions are an integral part of our lives, especially during these unprecedented times,” the municipality said. During
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