Visual arts

The Arsakeio Arcade in downtown Athens is to be renovated thanks to a 12-million-euro investment that will turn it into a culture and gastronomy center promoting healthy lifestyle and food, it has been announced.

The Society for Macedonian Studies presents 130 pieces by acclaimed artists including Spyros Vassiliou, Loukas Venetoulias, Konstantinos Maleas, Alekos Fassianos and others, dating from the mid-19th century to the present day, for a show celebrating its 80th anniversary. The pieces have been selected to illustrate how the northern port city inspired these artists.

A Banksy mural, covered up by builders' hoarding and scaffolding for the past few months, will be uncovered on Nov. 11 in the heart of London's Notting Hill area.

Istanbul's Uniq EXPO will bring the original works by Andy Warhol, the leading name in pop art, to Istanbul in an exhibition between Nov. 7 and March 29, 2020.

After touring Europe, North America, Asia and Australia for the past two-and-a-half years, award-winning choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou returns to Greece for two final performances of "The Great Tamer" at the Athens Concert Hall on November 29 and 30.

An exhibition of model houses featuring the historic Istanbul houses opened at the Turkish Cultural Center in Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Nov. 3.

Distopya Sound Art Festival will feature sound art exhibitions, electro-music and electroacoustic concerts with the participation of nearly 20 artists between Oct 30 and Nov 3 in Istanbul.

Leonardo da Vinci is the star in a blockbuster retrospective that opened Oct. 24 at the Louvre museum in Paris to mark 500 years since the death of the Renaissance master.

The importance and necessity of play, art and experiment in the school space using Bauhaus Play methods and principles was the subject of a debate organized on Thursday evening at the Goethe Institute in Bucharest by the cultural NGO 'Asociatia 37' and the 'Costache Negri' National College in Targu Ocna, Bacau County (eastern Romania).

Tens of thousands of hand-woven "postmortem rugs" -- some being centuries old -- were collected by government officials across Turkey for maintenance and classification to be transferred to the coming generations