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Tag: Greece
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Ancient Bust of Greek God Discovered in an Athens Sewer
The carved head of Hermes was built into a drainage duct.
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Onassis AiR Seeks Applications for 2020–21 Residency in Athens
Apply by April 24 to the open call for The School of Infinite Rehearsals.
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Artist Candice Breitz Calls for Refugee Aid Worker’s Release After 100-Day Imprisonment [UPDATED]
Since August, Sarah Mardini — a humanitarian aid worker who saved refugees bound for Greece by pulling their sinking dinghy ashore — has indefinitely languished in a prison outside Athens.
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In Greece, a Red-Winged Sculpture Is Exorcised and Destroyed
Religious conservatives condemned the red figure as satanic and yanked it from its pedestal, while a priest attempted to exorcise it.
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British MPs Propose Bill to Return the Elgin Marbles to Greece
With the 200th anniversary this week of the July 11, 1816 purchase through an Act of Parliament of the Parthenon Marbles for the British Museum, members of parliament are introducing a bill that would repatriate the ancient artifacts.
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An Ancient Mosaic of the God of Wine Debuts in New York
The Onassis Cultural Center NY is showcasing four decades of archaeological findings from Dion, the ancient Greek village that tried to get as close to the gods as possible by building shrines and structures on the slopes of Mount Olympus.
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An Acoustic Museum of Byzantine Sound
The sonic intentions of architecture are often lost over the centuries. In 2014, a team of researchers investigated the acoustics of Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki, Greece, to retrieve some of that design through sound mapping.
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$260M Plan to Resurrect Ancient Wonder of the World Aims to Save Greek Island’s Economy
The Colossus of Rhodes, destroyed by an earthquake in 226 BCE, may soon rise again, redesigned and totally tricked out for the 21st century.
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Discovery of Ancient Greek ‘Palace’ Reveals Fragments of a Lost Language
The Greek Ministry of Culture announced on August 25 that since 2009, archaeologists at a Mycenaean palace on Aghios Vassilios Hill on Greece’s Sparta plain have unearthed numerous artifacts.
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Debt in Venice: German Pavilion Artists Show Support for Greece
In response to the German government’s insistence on imposing austerity measures on Greece, the artists representing Germany at this year’s Venice Biennale have made a simple but powerful statement in support of the debt-ridden nation.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: German police catch up with Hitler’s bronze horses, falling tourist takes Greek vase with her, and Swiss squatters brick up museum entrances.