Attractive exhibitions and tributes By Yota Sykka EXPOSITIONS. As the crisis grows, so museums are becoming more creative in their efforts to maintain their audience, even without sponsors and much help, but also to attract new ones. the "difficult", as everyone characterizes it 2011 came with a series of attractive exhibitions that offer notes of optimism in public and private museums, while hundreds of exhibits on the theme of Alexander the Great will travel to the Louvre and the Ashmolean for international events. The crisis has even made these organizations more inventive, he had their representatives collaborate on clever tributes and established monthly exhibitions in some of them as in the case of the prolific Benakis.CurrencyThe National Archaeological Museum together with the Numismatic and Alpha Bank will each present the "Coin and Myth" exhibition at its base. Vertebrate exhibition which in the first museum of the country will illuminate in the spring the representations of myths and deities on coins and with the help of other objects, while in Ilio Melathron, the base of the Numismatic Museum, the public will learn about the rulers depicted on the coins, the gods and the patrons or founders of the cities. The great exhibition of the National Archaeological, in any case, will be the treasure of Antikythera. The focus is on the famous computer - astronomical instrument which measured the orbits of the planets, which will be framed with other exhibits from the same cargo. Sculptures that were recovered from the sea, such as the Adolescent of Antikythera and others, which we now find in the atrium of the museum, but also glass objects and other vessels. Together, for the first time, daily utensils used by the ship's crew will be exhibited. In the meantime, Myrtis, the 11-year-old girl of the orthodontist-researcher Mr. Papagrigorakis, which brought hundreds of visitors to the Archaeological Museum of Athens, will travel to the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki before starting a new cycle in other cities of the country. In February, the exhibition "Music and dance in antiquity" opens with original works and copies of musical instruments, in March, in collaboration with the French Archaeological School, a tribute to 100 years of excavations in Thassos and in May Dionysos has his honor. The exhibition "The gift of Dionysus – The mythology of wine in ancient Macedonia and Italy" includes 220 objects which will come to us from the neighboring country and others 100 of the museum. In September, the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki participates with the rest of the "network of five" in the exhibition "Old Intersections – making new' emphasizing the Arab and Jewish world, through archaeological, photographic and visual routes. However, the great moment of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki is its collaboration with the Louvre for the organization of the exhibition dedicated to Alexander the Great and inaugurated on 3/10. Includes 680 exhibits of which the 220 they also come from other Macedonian museums. "From Herakles to Alexander the Great. The legend of the Macedonians, a Greek kingdom during the years of the Republic – Treasures from the Goats, the royal metropolis of the Macedonians" is another foreign event in which we participate, sending to the Asmolean in Oxford - Europe's oldest public museum- findings from the city of Aige. The Epigraph, with new director Maria Englezou, has also designed an exhibition for which the students of the University of Athens will work voluntarily, while the Byzantine Museum also has a newly appointed director, the experienced Eugenia Halkia, will continue with the exhibition “From the earth to the sky: works of art from semi-precious stones and corals from the collection of the Passas Foundation", but also three more exhibitions: "Aspects of the 'Spiritual', the Investment Bank collection and the tribute to Per Kirkeby.New actionsThe Museum of Cycladic Art will host the exhibition "O,What: The Art of the Book at the Academy of Fine Arts", is preparing for the "Barren Line" in collaboration with the Ministry of Transport and Communications, starting from six islands of the Dodecanese, earlier will show the exhibition "The last Grand Tour", while preparing new actions for the "Uninvited Visits" series etc. The neighboring Gallery decided to release its "Unknown Treasures" under the signature and care of its curators, but earlier in April, tribute to Yiannis Moralis with 150 projects it has in its warehouses.

The New Year's concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, global eventBy Ilias MaglinisCONCERT. Get ready once again to clap your hands to the famous "Radetski" march or let yourself be moved to the three-quarter beat of the world's most popular waltz, of the "Blue Danube": on the morning of January 1st, like every year, live from Musikverein Vienna, the city's Philharmonic Orchestra will continue an important musical tradition. This time, having the Austrian chief musician Franz Welser on the podium – Had to, who will conduct the New Year's Concert for the first time. Naturally, the light program does not change: Viennese waltzes, polka dots, journeys – especially for this year, Franz Liszt's "Mephisto Waltz" will be included, tribute to the Hungarian composer, as next year marks two hundred years since his birth. This musical event was established for the first time in dark times. The maiden concert was given on 31 of December 1939, with conductor Clemens Krauss. Throughout the war it was strictly local in character and served as a reminder of the good old days while expressing an optimism for the future.Only StraussThe program of the first concert included only works by Johann Strauss Jr, while there was no "biz" (performances outside the official program). "Blue Danube" was performed for the first time in 1945, as "biz", while the "Radetski" pitch 1946, also as "biz". Until 1958, these two compositions were often played, but not always. Since that year, however, they have been established as two inseparable "bizs" – with two exceptions: the 1967 Willy Boskowski performed "The Blue Danube" as part of the official program, while on January 1 of 2005 Lorin Maazel did not perform the celebratory "Radetsky" out of respect for the victims of the Indonesian tsunami. This year's concert will be televised in seventy countries and on three hundred radio stations worldwide. In our country it will be broadcast by ERT on 12.15 μ. μ. For the raffle of his concert tickets 2012, interested parties may contact from 2 to 23 January of 2011 on the website www. wienerphi larmoniker. gr.

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Lack of staffMuseums and archaeological sites operate during this period with winter hours, that is, until 3 afternoon. But no one from’ to those who are responsible for their operation cannot be promised with certainty that the summer hours will operate smoothly. The large state museums of the country are affected by the wave of retirements. And, of course, from the non-renewal of contracts. "At this moment they were calling us to implement the summer schedule, we would not be able to respond", they say with sincerity and desperation.

George Tsatsos, "Summer Circle". Summer circle, 130×100, work 2009 (from the exhibition's bilingual catalog, design by Antonis Gounaros, edited by Artigraf).Elena's trust "Leap in Time", the clever title of Giorgos Tsatsos's second Athenian solo exhibition, which opens on Tuesday 23 November, time 8 Creation "regarding the modern administration and the European ones, and again at Eleni Kalliga's Skoufa Gallery, is "the key".continue:…news.kathimerini.gr

Every day more and more, most Greeks, forward to the canteen of the Feeding Center of the Municipality of Athens By Marilis Margomenou For lunch today he has chicken with rice. It doesn't exist, sure, no table nor dishes. Just a bench and plastic bowls. There is no family to say a prayer before eating, and no children to tell the news from school. Here everyone prays alone. And everyone wants the same thing. May he have something to eat tomorrow. On the sidewalk of Piraeus, parade of ghosts. From the 12.00 and after, the queue in front of the canteen of the Feeding Center of the Municipality of Athens is getting longer and longer. Every day more and more people, more and more Greeks. If there is something to learn from them, is that anyone could end up here.Ten languagesLike Mr. Emmanuel, who insists "no Manolis. Emmanuel!». Who speaks ten languages. He worked in hotels for thirty years. Which has traveled thirty countries. Who has four children. And who eats at the cafeteria. “What went wrong;» With a look he corrects me – the question is wrong. “What are you looking for girl?;», says. "Time doesn't turn back". A crash on a highway. An operation on the head and when you wake up, to be told that your wife has died. And then you have your first seizure. “And your children;», I ask him. “My children;» Mr. Emmanuel shrugs. "As long as their dad was working, he was good. Now that dad isn't working, dad doesn't exist". Every now and then he reaches into his jacket pocket, he sees me looking at the hand as he goes there again. "The wallet in its place", says. I ask him if he trusts people. His voice is no longer friendly. "listen girl", he says – as if I insulted him. "I am not asking anyone for anything. No apologies, no friendships. I'll find a can somewhere. And at home I have the TV talking to me. My monk, I'm fine".continuity: … news.kathimerini.gr

By Pantelis Boukalas The PASOK fans were not at all original when they shouted the slogan "Down with the Karamanlis junta" in Veria the day before yesterday. They didn't have to strain their brains or spend money resorting to advertising opportunities, skills in slogan making. They found the slogan ready and adopted it with a small change at the end: "Down with the PASOK junta" passionately shouted the members of the ND. while we were heading towards his election 2004. "Down with Karamanli's junta" PASOK are now shouting with the same passion. The fact that most of the speakers are of an age that does not allow them to have a memory of the dictatorship is no alibi for anyone; the ahistorical are not innocent. To their credit, the leaders of the two parties do not agree with their judicious audience (on the contrary, years ago, Mr.. Voulgarakis, as Minister of Culture, had enthusiastically adopted the vulgar sexist slogan of the blue-collar students against Mr. Papandreou). Their refusal, however, to adopt such dangerously stupid slogans has the same pedagogic effect as loudspeaker exhortations to the teams' fans to stop unleashing abusive 'chants'. The fans, parties or associations, only for a short time they rest, and again they are drawn to insults. Deep down they know that even when their leaders react, they don't even want to be silenced, especially if the slogans, however extreme, they function as a rallying force and strengthen party patriotism. Precisely party patriotism is the producer and trafficker of slogans which, despite the mask of burning passion for democracy they wear, they are unable to hide their deep anti-democracy: The loyalist of one or the other party in power is educated in such a way as to identify his faction with democracy, the truth and the nation, and to consider the party opponents miasmas and enemies of the country. For the party loyalist, democracy exists so that he can exclusively enjoy its gifts. For this reason, the state is treated as a booty by those who take turns in its reins, like a booty to be tasted only by "companions", in proportion to their strength, of course. With such a "worldview", it stands to reason that the fanatical party follower considers it a "perversion of democracy", "junta" or anything else a government that removes him from the spoils, from the loot. In his eyes, democracy is entitled to have only one color: his party color. He is "revolutionary" because he dreams of his own regime.news.kathimerini.gr Publication date: 17-03-09