Thursday, November 3, 2011
E X H I B I T I O N
- Damien Hirst Solo @ Benaki
The Benaki Museum (Pireos Annexe) presents the first solo exhibition in Greece by world-renowned British artist Damien Hirst.
Titled New Religion, the exhibition has moved to Athens after an initial stop at Thessaloniki, where it was shown at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, earlier this year.
The exhibition features mainly silkscreen prints, sculptures, installations and paintings and constitutes a characteristic example of the artistic practice of the most famous exponent of the Young British Artist movement, that dominated the art scene in the 1990s.
P H O T O G R A P H Y
Athens Photo Festival 2011
The Athens Photo Festival 2011 opened its door yesterday at Technopolis in Gazi district, running through November 15. The Festival’s highlight is a Swedish photography exhibition titled Emotionally Yours. Featuring the mature work of three accomplished Swedish photographic artists: Trinidad Carrillo, Hyun-Jin Kwak and Anneè Olofsson, the exhibition is curated by Jan-Erik Lundström and runs under the auspices of the Swedish Institute in Athens.
O P E R A
- Samson et Dalila
The Thessaloniki Concert Hall presents Camille Saint-Saens’s Samson et Dalila biblical opera on November 4, with additional performances on November 6, 9, 11 and 13.
Israeli-born mezzo-soprano Hadar Halevy and Greece’s Maria Katsoura alternate in the role of Dalila, and Spanish tenor German Villar as well as Italy’s Paolo Cauteruccio take on the role of Samson.
M U S I C
Farandouri meets Charles Loyd
The eminent Greek performer Maria Farandouri encounters the "father of world music" Charles Lloyd in a concert that offers a remarkable and original combination of Greek traditional music and jazz at the Athens Concert Hall, on November 9.
E V E N T
- Lafcadio Hearn’s Amazing Life
The Onassis Cultural Centre Athens is holding today an event dedicated to the work and unique life of Lafcadio Hearn, a 19th-century writer who, born on the Greek island of Lefkada to a Greek mother and an Irish father, would eventually settle down in Japan, earning a place in the pantheon of Japanese national authors after a peripatetic life in Ireland and the United States.
The evening will feature the world premiere of an animated 3D film based on one of Hearn’s short stories, and explore what it was that gave his work, written in English, its Japanese 'national identity.'
