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‘Benaki museum Main Building’
Catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name…
The exhibition focuses on Manolis Charos’s take on Aesop’s Fables…
Photographs of Grecian Antiquities, 1853-1854
For the International Tourist Guides Day (February 21nd),
An installation by artist Stratos Kavalieratos located outdoors at the Main Building of the Benaki Museum: sculptures that convert wind energy into motion and provide an unanticipated visual diversion.
The exhibition presents the work of a renowned 15th-century painter, Angelos Akotantos, who lived in Venetian-held Crete. The artist was a prominent member of society during his life and a significant number of icons bearing the signature The Hand of Angelos has been preserved, along with his hand-written will, which brings into focus his personality. [...]
A study of the concept of theatricality outside the confines of a stage
The exhibition attempts to create a discourse between recorded history and that which remains unwritten, between the official story and the traces of small everyday stories through time;
The exhibition contains a group of twenty paintings from the art collection of the Emboriki Bank of Greece. It offers the public an opportunity to see up-close a representative sample of the oeuvre of this painter from Mytilene, which records in his characteristic manner his involvement with painting.
The works in the collection [...]
This exhibition is a tribute to the oeuvre of Zizi Makri (born in 1924), a major figure in engraving, mosaic and tapestry.
The exhibition will show pieces inspired by her travels in China in 1956, a series of woodcuts and pastels created using on-site sketches as their starting point and drawing on [...]











