This city known primarily for its monumental historic sites harbors a surprisingly dynamic contemporary art scene where complex legacy inspires uniquely vibrant creative takes.

Landmark in Metaxourgeio is the Municipal Gallery of Athens, whose collection of 3000 works of art is dedicated entirely to 19th- and 20th-century Greek artists with rotating exhibitions that deep ...

But contemporary art, she added, is relatively new to the Greek scene. “We have been living under the shadow of the Acropolis for a long time” she said.

When he was a 13-year-old schoolboy, a tousled Greek youngster named Nicolas Hadgikyriaco saw his first “modern” painting—a tortured Matisse street scene—in a Paris gallery. “I was ...

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not ...

The Greek public has not had the institutions that would expose them to contemporary artists, as it has developed in the last 20 years. For example, it has been only one or two years that our ...

The art will be jointly owned by Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art and New York's Guggenheim Museum. The two museums are still working out when the art will be displayed and where.

The incentive for this initiative was the need to house and exhibit the entire collection works by the Andriot sculptor Michael Tombros, which he bequeathed to his native island, but, shortly after, ...

On the island of Andros, the Goulandri Museum of Modern Art exhibits "Picasso: Greek Influences" (June 26-Sept. 26), a collection of 116 of his works, including pieces with Greek subjects.