Overview
Established in 2003, the Athens Voice paper is a free press weekly edition released every Thursday with a distribution network that includes Athens, Thessaloniki and 20 more cities in Greece. The cover page of the newspaper consists of submissions from local and international artists. This has led to the establishment of one of the major art events of the city, "Art on the Front Page", with an exhibition of the original artworks at the Benakis Museum.
Athens Voice and athensvoice.gr contain original material, articles and comments on current socio-political affairs and stories on arts, books, fashion, urban culture, travel, events, nightlife and culinary trends. The online version, with over 2,5 million unique visitors monthly, combines the articles published in the print version together with new material.
Athens Voice Radio 102.5 FM began broadcasting in 2017.
It has expanded through extra editions (Lookmag for women, Homemag for home and design, the Thessaloniki-based monthly magazine Soul for young lifestyle, the Summer and Winter Guides), the organizing of cultural events (the cover exhibition at the Benakis Museum, First Sound live music) and its participation in others (Fashion Week, European Music Day).
Its annual travel guides (City & Islands Summer Guide) are published in English. The English online version bestofathens.gr and bestofthessaloniki.gr combines the articles published in the print version with additional travel material.
Wallpaper, stylized Wallpaper*, is a publication focusing on design and architecture, fashion, travel, art, and lifestyle. The magazine was launched in London in 1996 by Canadian journalist Tyler Brûlé and Austrian journalist Alexander Geringer. It is now owned by Future plc after its acquisition of TI Media.
The Athens Conservatoire is the oldest educational institution for the performing arts in modern Greece. It was founded in 1871 by the non-profit organization Music and Drama Association.
Alekos Fassianos was a Greek painter.
The Museum of Byzantine Culture is a museum in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece, which opened in 1994.
Nikos Economopoulos is a Greek photographer known for his photography of the Balkans and of Greece in particular.
History of Greek photography from its beginning to the present
Paper clothing describes garments and accessories made from paper or paper substitutes. The earliest known paper clothing was made by the Chinese even before they used paper as a writing medium in the 2nd century CE. Paper clothing, usually made from washi paper, was developed by the Chinese through the centuries, the craft spreading through Asia, until it reached Japan. From the 10th century onwards, Japanese craftspeople produced paper garments called kamiko. Kamiko became a traditional Japanese craft of Shiroishi, Miyagi, carried out to a very high standard and skill during the Edo period. The practice began to die out in the late 19th century, before being revived in the mid-20th century. In the early 20th century, German and Austrian manufacturers began producing "ersatz" paper cloth and clothing in response to wool shortages caused by World War I. While there was a brief period of interest in paper suits and garments during the early 1920s, this did not catch on as despite paper's economic advantages, traditional woven cloth was widely preferred. However, some fancy dress costumes, hats, and fashionable accessories were made from crêpe paper during the early 20th century and in response to resource shortages before and during World War II.
Konstantin Kakanias is a contemporary Greek painter and multimedia artist. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles and Greece. Throughout his career Kakanias has created drawings, paintings, sculptures, performances, ceramics and books.
IANOS SA is a Greek-based book, music and art retailer with several stores in the two major cities, Thessaloniki and Athens. It was named after the ancient Roman god Janus as a link to the identity and mission of the company. IANOS sells through its concept-store chain a large variety of books, cds, art objects, periodicals, gifts and stationery. Also, it offers event venues, seminars, art galleries, a publishing house, an art café, it operates web sales and runs an internet radio.
Nikos Alexiou was a Greek artist who specialized in visual art, contemporary art, installation art and set design for theatre and dance. He exhibited his work at personal exhibitions and group events both in Greece and abroad.
Costas Evangelatos is a Greek artist and poet born in Argostoli in 1957 but he is originated by his father side from Lixouri, Kefalonia. He studied law at Athens University, painting and aesthetic theory of modern art in Manhattan. From 1986 until 1993 he was the artistic director of the DADA Gallery in Athens, and in 1990 founded the art group ART STUDIO "EST".
Tassos Mantzavinos is a Greek painter who graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts. His work has been exhibited in many museums and galleries in Greece and abroad and he has also worked on various book illustrations.
The Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation ‘Vas. Papantoniou’ or PFF is a nonprofit cultural institution and museum based in Nafplion, Greece. It was founded in 1974 by the folklorist and scenic designer Ioanna Papantoniou in memory of her father Vasilios Papantoniou. The aim of PFF is the research, preservation, study and presentation of the material culture of the Greeks.
Lili (Julia) Paschalidou-Theodoridou was a Greek doll maker.
Nikolaos Ventouras was a Greek artist and engraver.
Argiris SER Saraslanidis is a Greek street artist and illustrator currently based in Corfu island. He is one of the pioneers in the urban / street art scene of Greece.
Pavlos Samios was a Greek painter and professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
FYTA are an Athens-based conceptual art and performance art duo. Their work problematises Greek identity and nationalism. FYTA's work combines different media and disciplines mostly operating within the wider framework of overidentification, queer politics and anti-humanist art, while they aim at a performative destabilisation of concepts of truth and nature / the natural.
Sozita Goudouna (Greek: Σωζήτα Γκουντούνα is a curator, professor and the author of Beckett's Breath: Anti-theatricality and the Visual Arts on Samuel Beckett's Breath, one of the shortest plays ever written for the theatre, published by Edinburgh University Press and released in the US by Oxford University Press. According to William Hutchings' review at the Comparative Drama Conference Series 15, Goudouna's book is surely the most ever said about the least in the entire history of literary criticism. In 2022 Goudouna initiated and teaches the MA on Breath Studies: Breath in the Visual and Performing Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Eleni Mylonas is a Greek-born American artist.
