Artists

Artist Christo Javashev will pack the Arc de Triomphe in 2020, the French authorities announced, AFP reports. This will happen 58 years after the birth of the idea.

The plan is to cover the massive monument with 25,000 meters of silvery blue recycling tissue and 7,000 meters of red line.

Turkish artist Gülsün Karamustafa's first solo show in Athens, "The Peculiar Song," will open on April 4.

The exhibition "When the Light Dances, I Speak Fairly - George Seferis and his Poetry through Painting and Photography" illustrates the distinguished Greek poet's talent and highlights the impact of his writing on visual artists - including both his peers and younger generations.

Nicolae Tonitza's "Nude From the Back" fetched 72,500 euro at Artmark's spring auction held in Bucharest on Wednesday evening.

Two women peruse a display case at the National Library of Greece, which recently inaugurated a tribute to the first Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci. The tribute at the library's new home at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on Athens's southern coast comprises a series of events over 2019, marking the 500-year anniversary of the Italian polymath's death.

"What are you going to be when you grow up?" actress Marika Kotopouli asked 12-year-old Demosthenis (Dimos) Skoulakis while visiting the boy's parents in the family's Athens home in the early 1950s. "An artist," he responded without hesitation. "Yannis, come meet a colleague," she said laughing to her friend, the artist Yannis Tsarouchis.

An Orientalist painting by French painter Felix-Auguste Clement, the largest of its kind in Turkey, will meet art lovers in November.

The Benaki Museum pays tribute to Demosthenis Skoulakis (1939-2014), a key proponent of the 1970s generation of Greek artists.

Anonymous-yet-celebrated UK-based street artist and activist Banksy is the subject of an exhibition organized by the City of Athens at the Technopolis cultural center, running from February 27 to March 26.

For the first time, and likely the last, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is showing off most of its works by Rembrandt van Rijn in a single exhibition.