“Athens is a tourism black hole,” bluntly states Pavlos Yeroulanos, Minister of Culture and Tourism, in a recent interview. “My job is to promote culture but the changes I’m trying to make happen, ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced plans to return a 7th-century bronze head of a griffin to Greece. This follows new provenance research that suggests the artifact was probably stolen from ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will benefit from a controversial deal that billionaire Leonard Stern made with Greece for the return of antiquities. Newsday via Getty Images According to billionaire ...

In a darkened college classroom, students are introduced to a projected image of a famous work of Greek art brimming with intense drama. The students scrutinize the ancient wall painting discovered in ...

Experts welcome the "positive" update to the law but warn it may be difficult to enforce. Tourists take pictures in front of the Athens Academy adorned with sculputures depicting ancient greek ...

According to some recent travelers, this is the best museum in Athens. The Benaki Museum focuses on Greek art, from prehistory to the modern age. Its campus features several contemporary and historic ...

The grand opening of the complimentary Greek art exhibit entitled, “The Evolution of Greek Art to Our Times”, will feature the works of Dr. Charalampous, a renowned psychiatrist and Greece native. For ...

I rarely paid attention to images or pictures. My focus was always the written word. My mind built the gods, heroes, and material artifacts, including temples and the Parthenon. I had to do that ...

Greek statues: from stiff Archaic to balanced Golden Age to jump-off-the-stage Hellenism We trace the steady evolution of Greek art through its statues: from stiff Archaic to balanced Golden Age to ...

The Orientalizing period in Greece refers to a roughly 100-year period in which Greek art was greatly influenced by eastern, and specifically Near Eastern and Egyptian, ideas, myths, and decorative ...

Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle - the true identity of a leading Byzantine painter who injected humanity into the ...