Arts

Artist and filmmaker Kyriakos Katzourakis presents a series of 50 paintings created over five years that were inspired by Picasso's seminal "Guernica" and comment on present-day challenges and issues.

From cats and dogs to singing insects and drunken parrots, the ancient Greeks and Romans shared a deep and intimate connection with the animal kingdom.

The Second Turkish Film Festival and a photography exhibition titled "Göbeklitepe: Zero Point of History" have opened in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

It's a thin line where the patina of age on Europe's countless monuments gives way to the onset of neglect. Like with so many loved ones, all is assumed to be fine, until suddenly it's not.

Master of Art is the only international Film Festival in Eastern Europe for art documentaries.

The film industry has never been more successful than it was in 2018, when it earned $96.8 billion including over $40 billion in cinema ticket sales, according to figures published March 21 by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

A former paper warehouse was made available to artist Nikos Artemis by the City of Athens for an audiovisual installation. The initiative is part of the municipal authority's ongoing efforts to utilize abandoned buildings in the city center and help revive neighborhoods that have fallen on hard times.

"Yiannis Moralis: Master Teacher," on display at the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture, sheds light on the celebrated Greek artist's capacity as a teacher and on the profound influence he had not just on hundreds of artists who passed through his classroom at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1947 until 1983, but on the Greek art scene as a whole.

However, the main event already took place, as the Prešeren Prizes, top national accolades in arts and culture, were given out last night.

Two lifetime achievement prizes were given out this year, going to theatre costume designer Bjanka Adžić Ursulov and independent documentary director Filip Robar Dorin.

The State Museum of Contemporary Art presents "Spring Torrents," a double bill that explores social movements in two very different parts of the world - Russia and the United States - at two very different times - the early and mid-20th century.