Yannis

Is a strong friendship between two former soccer players enough to make one of them heed the other's call and travel to work together on the other side of the world?

The artworks in "Collector's Perception - Sotiris Felios Collection," an exhibition curated by art historian Louiza Karapidaki, trace the character of Greek art over the past three decades. With the exception of two works, one by Takis, the other by Nikos Egonopoulos, all rest were created between 1988 and 2018.

Greek shipping magnate Vangelis Marinakis claimed in a radio interview on Thursday that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas had asked him to pay the first instalment of a TV license fee on behalf of another businessman who was reportedly on good terms with the government.

Greek photographer Alkis Konstantinidis is among a group of Reuters photographers to receive a Pulitzer Prize for their photos of migrants from Central and South Americans crossing the US border.

More than a year after the then minister of migration policy Yiannis Mouzalas and Education Minister Costas Gavroglou heralded a program to teach Greek to adult refugees, courses have yet to start.

Former artistic director Yannis Houvardas returns to the Greek National Theater with a modern and quirky production of "The Misanthrope," a Moliere classic embraced by stage artists around the world for its adaptability and the way it exposes hypocrisy, regardless of time and place. The production is in Greek, but comes with English subtitles every Saturday (8.30 p.m.) and Sunday (7 p.m.).

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.

"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.

Doctors Without Borders (Medecins sans Frontieres) has published a video paying tribute to Yannis Behrakis, the late photojournalist whose poignant images helped raise international awareness of the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees trying to escape war at the peak of the migrant crisis in Greece in 2015 and 2016.

Speaking at last weekend's Delphi Economic Forum, leading figures in Greek tourism called for the industry's quality and national policy on the sector to be upgraded while ensuring sustainability. They also proposed a campaign to encourage foreigners to buy a second home in Greece.