Visual arts

British architect and urban planner David Chipperfield won the 2023 Pritzker Prize, organizers of the profession's most prestigious award announced on March 7.

The 69-year-old was honored for "timeless modern design that confronts climate urgencies, transforms social relationships and reinvigorates cities," they said in a statement.

It appears to be only a matter of time, specifically of weeks, for the return and placement in the Acropolis Museum of the three Parthenon fragments, which Pope Francis 'donated' to Archbishop Ieronymos last December.

"I have no furniture. No toilet. Nothing," said Freddie Powell, 29, a contemporary art dealer, standing in the bare, white-tiled box that has been his by-appointment showroom for the past 16 months. His tiny gallery, Ginny on Frederick, occupies a former sandwich bar in the Farringdon area of London and measures just 7 feet wide.

Dissident artist Ai Weiwei on Jan. 30 said the Chinese state's razing of his studios still fails to make "any sense" to him, as he launched his first design-focused exhibition, due to open in London in April.

The more than 60-year saga of the Faliro Bay redevelopment appears set for more delays.

This is because the Region of Attica, which has been granted the land, is discussing the possibility of the remaining works of the redevelopment to be included in the "New European Bauhaus" initiative as one of its emblematic projects.

One of Pablo Picasso's Blue Period paintings is at the center of a lawsuit between a Jewish family and New York's Guggenheim Museum, CNN has reported.

Prehistoric cave paintings are extremely rare south-east of the Alps, but in 2009 a scientist stumbled upon mysterious red and black lines and dots inside a little-known cave in the south-west of the country in the first such discovery in Slovenia.

A federal appeals court has ordered a Detroit museum to hold onto an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh amid a Brazilian collector's dispute with the museum over the painting.

The President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou, on the occasion of the National Remembrance Day of the Greek Jewish Martyrs and Heroes of the Holocaust, on Friday laid a wreath at the Holocaust monument in Thissio, central Athens, honoring all those that died in Nazi concentration camps.

Featuring works by Rania Bellou, Lynda Benglis, Vlassis Caniaris, Christo, Nikos Engonopoulos, Alekos Fassianos, Yannoulis Halepas, Christoph Keller, Karolina Krasouli, Maria Loizidou, Brice Marden, Nelly's, Dimitris Neveskiοtis, Edward Steichen and Eleni Vernadaki, the Kalfayan's (kalfayangalleries.com) new show explores how ancient Greek culture has served as an enduring source of inspiration