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SUMMARY:Exhibition - Weaving Dreams: Kilims from Geraki\, Laconia
DESCRIPTION:Kilim. Tree of Life with wedding procession and initials ΓΠ. 19th Century. \nExhibition \nWeaving Dreams\nKilims from Geraki\, Laconia \nOn view from\nApril 23 – July 26\, 2026 \nGhika Gallery\n3 Kriezotou Street\, Kolonaki\, Athens \nThe village of Geraki\, located on the slopes of Mount Parnon\, is renowned for its millennia-old art of weaving on the vertical loom. \nThe exhibition presents dowry kilims and related objects from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century\, particularly works woven with images of women and men standing within a landscape of agricultural abundance and surrounded by symbolic imagery. Weavers produced textiles for domestic and commercial use. A finely woven kilim\, costly to acquire\, signified its owner’s affluence and social status\, making it a prized possession and family heirloom. \nGeraki weavers have long been recognized for their exceptional skills\, winning awards at the Vienna World’s Fair of 1873\, the Eighth International Exhibition in Thessaloniki in 1933\, and elsewhere. In recognition of this enduring weaving tradition\, the textile art of Geraki was inscribed in the Greek National Intangible Cultural Heritage Index in 2019. \nIn the 1930s\, artists\, scholars\, and folklorists passed through Geraki\, admiring the village’s Byzantine churches\, elaborate stone houses\, and vibrant weaving industry. This exhibition celebrates the connection between Geraki and several of the artists and intellectuals of that period\, whose work is exhibited in the Ghika Gallery. \nThis exhibition is organized by the Benaki Museum and curated by Sharon Gerstel and Sofia Pitouli. We extend our sincere thanks to the supporters listed below for their generosity. \nA catalogue accompanying the exhibition is available for purchase here: https://hellenic.ucla.edu/weaving-dreams/ \nUnder the Auspices:\nRegion of Peloponnese \nLead Supporter:\nStavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)\nGefyra is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) \nExhibition Supporters:\nGefyra\nUCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\nGeorge and Tina Kolovos \nExhibition Hashtag\n#GerakiKilimsBenaki
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/weaving-dreams-exhibition/
LOCATION:Ghika Gallery\, 3 Kriezotou Street\, Kolonaki\, Athens\, 106 71\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Gefyra,Hellenic,Heritage,History,Humanities,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231118
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SUMMARY:Reconsidering the Generation of the 1930s: The Roots and Breadth of Greek Modernism Conference
DESCRIPTION:Reconsidering the Generation of the 1930s: The Roots and Breadth of Greek Modernism Conference \nSaturday\, November 18\, 2023\n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA\n10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. \nConference organized by Sharon Gerstel (UCLA) and Sofia Pitouli (UCLA) \nWelcome remarks by The Honorable Ioannis Stamatekos\, Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles. \nSpeakers: \nAreti Adamopoulou\, Professor of Art History\, University of Ioannina\nAbstract title: The “Generation of the 1930s” in Art: Cold War Cultural Politics and Modern Painting in Greece \nGeorge Baker\, Professor of Art History\, UCLA\nAbstract title: Yannis Tsarouchis and Anachronic Modernism: Lateness\, Counter-Memory\, and the Redefinition of the Human \nNikos Daskalothanassis\, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History\, Athens School of Fine Arts\nAbstract title: Theophilos and the Generation of the ’30s (again) \nPolina Kosmadaki\, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art\, The Benaki Museum\nAbstract title: Concepts of Artistic “Greekness” in the Post-Junta Period: The Case of the Exhibition of Tsarouchis\, Ghika\, Kontoglou\, Theofilos in the Greek Month in London\, 1975 \nSofia Pitouli\, Ph.D. Candidate in Byzantine Art\, UCLA\nAbstract title: Toward Greekness: Dimitris Pikionis’ Architectural Fantasies of Japan \nPoppy Sfakianaki\, Postdoctoral Researcher\, Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH\nAbstract title: Greek Modern Art in Interwar Paris: Networks Rather Than a Generation \nConference Description:\nThis conference challenges the attribution of the term “Generation of the 1930s” (Γενιά του ’30) to artists and writers active during the 1930s and the following decades. The term initially addressed a group of writers and poets bound by similar experiences and socio-historical backgrounds. However\, between 1948-50\, artists were also clustered under the term\, which\nliterati employed regularly––and still do––in scholarship. These artists were credited with the creation of modernism in Greece\, which was inspired by Western European movements but was also deeply rooted in history\, particularly in Orthodox Byzantium. The conference explores the various poles of artistic inventiveness during the 1930s but also examines the work of these artists and writers throughout the twentieth century\, prompting us to conceive their work diachronically rather than within the confines of a single decade. Given the socio-political circumstances of the nineteenth century in Greece (the traumatic changes resulting from the Greco-Turkish war\, the ensuing population exchange\, the collapse of the Megali Idea\, the dramatic upheavals of interwar Greece\, the Metaxas dictatorship\, and the Junta regime)\, the conference examines transnational and cosmopolitan orientations within Greek modernism and the ways in which these intertwined with narratives of nationality and folklore. \nGreek Modernism Conference Schedule \nAttendance is free and open to the public. Lunch is not included.  \nThis conference will not be recorded or livestreamed. \nThis program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and is held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles. \nGefyra (Bridge) is a collaborative program established by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University with support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Gefyra’s mission is to connect students\, faculty\, and communities along the West Coast of North America with Greek scholars\, artists\, and other creators\, so that they can together explore expansive and imaginative approaches to Greek culture and knowledge production. The program additionally supports academic conferences and cultural projects that bridge the West Coast and Greece. \nThank you to our co-sponsors!\n \n \n \nParking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 5 located at: 302 Charles E Young Dr N\, Westwood\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. Parking Structure 5  is accessible from Royce Drive\, south of Sunset Boulevard\, and west of Hilgard Ave. (in the northeast section of the campus). \nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, and Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking is extremely limited in this lot\, so we highly encourage you to purchase a parking permit in advance: \n\n\n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $15 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select “UCLA Royce Hall\,” then “1930s Conference” with the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 5 EXCEPT in the Pay-by-Space section. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\n\n\n\n\nTo purchase a permit when you arrive at Parking Structure 5\, please park ONLY in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card (the parking on this level is very limited).\n\n\n\n\nGuest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.\n\n\n\n\nAccessible parking: If you have accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5) of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.\n\n\n\nFor inquiries\, please contact hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu or 310-825-5323.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/1930sconference/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art History,Byzantine,Gefyra,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece,Symposium
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SUMMARY:Pigments in Ancient Greek Painting & Medicine:  Ecology\, Materiality and the Alchemical Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:Pigments in Ancient Greek Painting & Medicine: \nEcology\, Materiality and the Alchemical Laboratory\nlecture by\nIoanna Kakoulli\n(Department of Materials Science and Engineering\, UCLA) \nSaturday\, April 29\, 2023\n3:00 p.m.\n306 Royce Hall\nReception to follow \nAncient Greek paintings between the fourth century BC and the third century AD are characterized by a splendor of colors\, high artistic quality and rich pictorial effects such as shading\, translucency and transparency\, innovations that characterize and mark the art of Greek and later Roman painting traditions. Through the scientific analysis of surviving paintings—mainly wall paintings—this lecture explores the material ecology and intrinsic optical\, chemical and microstructural properties of pigments in Late Classical and Hellenistic painting. It further interrogates how these properties contributed to the paintings’ qualities\, aesthetics and function and their technological association with ancient makeup and therapeutic substances\, philosophy and early al(chemical) practices. Data is presented in the context of seminal texts of ancient writers such as Dioscorides\, Theophrastus\, Vitruvius and Pliny the Elder describing the chemical arts of color\, cosmetics and medicaments\, and alchemical recipes from two third-century AD Greek papyri\, which provide the earliest surviving direct evidence on ancient alchemical practices for the synthesis of colored compounds. \nIoanna Kakoulli\, who will serve as Acting Director of the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center in 2023-2024\, is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering with a joint appointment in the Archaeology Interdepartmental Degree Program and the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program\, in which she served as the inaugural ‘Lore and Gerald Cunard’ Program Term Chair from 2011 to 2017. Since 2018\, Professor Kakoulli has also held the honorary adjunct professor title at the University of Cyprus. Dr. Kakoulli has a M.A. from the Courtauld Institute of Art of the University of London and a Ph.D. in Archaeological Science from the University of Oxford. \nParking Information \nParking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 5 located at: 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.  Parking Structure 5  is accessible from Royce Drive\, south of Sunset Boulevard\, and west of Hilgard Ave (in the northeast section of the campus). \nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, and Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking is extremely limited in this lot\, so we highly encourage you to purchase a parking permit in advance (available after April 1\, 2023): \n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $15 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select “UCLA Campus Event\,” then “Kakoulli Lecture.” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 5 EXCEPT in the Pay-by-Space section. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit when you arrive at Parking Structure 5\, please park ONLY in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card (the parking on this level is very limited).\nGuest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround near the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.\nAccessible parking:If you have accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5)\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.\n\nThe event is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nImage caption: Detail of the Late Classical painted marble throne found in a Royal tomb in Vergina\, Greece attributed to Eurydice Sirra\, Macedonian queen and grandmother of Alexander the Great. The painted decoration of the throne shows the extensive use of a mercury-based pigment known as cinnabar; an important component in alchemy and perhaps the most celebrated pigment in Classical antiquity.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/pigments-in-ancient-greek-painting/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 306\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art History,Classics,Community,Hellenic,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221119T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221119T120000
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SUMMARY:Evita Arapoglou\, "Asia Minor Hellenism: Heyday - Catastrophe - Displacement - Rebirth"
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, part of the Hellenic Together 4.0 series held in collaboration with the Benaki Museum in Athens\, exhibition curator Evita Arapoglou leads us through “Asia Minor Hellenism: Heyday – Catastrophe – Displacement – Rebirth.” \nThis program is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nAbout the Exhibit \nVisitors to the exhibition begin their journey in the ‘heyday’ of Asia Minor Hellenism in Ionia and the west coast. They proceed to Cappadocia and the southern provinces\, travel to Pontus\, continue towards the west and the environs of Istanbul\, and end up in Eastern Thrace. \nThe heyday is followed by the period of persecutions\, the conclusion of World War I and the ensuing Treaties\, the period of the Greek landing in Asia Minor and the ensuing Campaign\, the ‘Catastrophe’ of 1922\, as well as the ‘Exodus’ of refugees. \nThe third and final section of the exhibition focuses on the settlement and integration of refugees in Greece\, as well as their impact on many sectors of Greek society. Part of the epilogue of the exhibition is dedicated to the creation of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies in 1930 by Melpo and Octave Merlier. \nThe exhibition features works of art\, icons\, ecclesiastical\, war and personal heirlooms\, costume\, jewelry\, handicrafts\, maps\, photographs\, archival and cinematographic material\, newspapers\, letters\, postcards\, and many other items. Excerpts from personal testimonies complement the narrative\, bringing images and silent objects to life. \nThe exhibition runs from September 15\, 2022 until February 12\, 2023.\nThursday\, Sunday: 10:00-18:00\nFriday\, Saturday: 10:00-22:00
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/evita-arapoglou-asia-minor-hellenism-heyday-catastrophe-displacement-rebirth/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221107
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SUMMARY:Byzantine Studies Conference
DESCRIPTION:We welcome the Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA) and participants to the 48th Annual Byzantine Studies conference at UCLA! \nMost conference activities will take place at the Luskin Conference Center and Hotel on the UCLA campus.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/byzantine-studies-conference/
LOCATION:Luskin
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art History,Byzantine,Classics,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture,Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T130000
DTSTAMP:20220907T020132Z
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SUMMARY:Roger Michel\, "Phidias Unbound: How Robot-Generated Replicas Could Solve the Parthenon Marbles Quandary"
DESCRIPTION:The Parthenon Marbles\, commonly known as the Elgin Marbles\, were removed from the ancient Acropolis of Athens in 1801 by Lord Elgin\, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Carved by the sculptor Phidias\, they were eventually sold to the British government in 1817 and are housed in the British Museum. Public debate about repatriating the marbles is heated and ongoing. \nCan the creation of exact copies of the originals resolve the repatriation quandary? Roger Michel\, executive director of the Institute of Digital Archaeology\, at the University of Oxford\, believes the repatriation issue can be resolved with the help of 3-D machining. His research team has developed a robot with the ability to create faithful copies of large historical objects. Michel will explore humanity’s connection to culturally significant objects and the emphasis we place on physical possession. Is possession an inherently colonial concept? Are heritage assets particularly susceptible to being exploited for the purposes of historical revisionism? Under what circumstances can copies provide satisfactory substitutes for original material? These questions will be examined against the backdrop of the IDA’s ongoing Elgin repatriation efforts. \nRoger Michel is the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA). The IDA operates globally\, undertaking a huge variety of heritage projects\, many of which are aimed at advancing social justice goals. Its principal partners are the UN\, UNESCO\, and local and national governments. Mr. Michel has published and lectured frequently on various heritage conservation topics. He was a member of the faculty at BU Law School for 25 years\, is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College (Oxford)\, and is co-publisher of Arion Magazine. Mr. Michel is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford Universities. \nThis event\, co-presented by the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage\, is being held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles and with the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/roger-michel-phidias-unbound-how-robot-generated-replicas-could-solve-the-parthenon-marbles-quandary/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art History,Classics,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220129T100000
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SUMMARY:Takis Mavrotas\, "Theofilos: 'The Evzone of Painting'"
DESCRIPTION:This lecture\, co-sponsored by the Embassy of Greece\, will be introduced by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States \nThe acclaimed folk artist Theophilos represents the tradition of Greece and its people. Born in ca. 1870 in a village close to Mytilene\, his father was a cobbler while his mother\, Penelope Hatzimihail\, was the daughter of an icon painter. In 1897\, he settled in the town of Volos on the Greek mainland\, and worked as a freelance painter\, creating murals in inns\, houses\, and shops in various villages in the area. His paintings fall into two categories: those inspired by life and those inspired by Greek mythology\, history\, and religion. His work was fundamental to the Generation of the 1930s\, whose artists viewed his paintings as the essence of Greekness. This year\, the B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation in Athens has organized a large retrospective\, including loans from the Municipality of Mytilene and the Theophilos Museum. The ninety-four exhibited works manifest the artist’s spirit and soul\, his inner truth that always served and respected the nation’s needs – a nation that has lived both glorious as well as tragic moments. Our event begins with greetings from the Foundation’s General Manager\, Dr. Fotis Papathanasiou\, and its Board Advisor and Contemporary Curator Marina Miliou Theocharakis\, who will both make a short presentation about the Foundation. Exhibition curator Takis Mavrotas will lecture about the painter and his work. Finally\, Evangelia Efthimiadou (Exhibitions Project Manager) and Irene Alexandrakis (Education Manager) will take us on a virtual tour of this important exhibition. \nTakis Mavrotas is Director of Visual Arts at the B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation. He has curated numerous individual and group exhibitions\, including: “Views of Magna Grecia” by Enzo Crea (National Bank of Greece Educational Foundation\, Athens\, 1987); “Takis-Chryssa” (European Cultural Centre of Delphi\, 2000); “Pillars and Columns” (European Cultural Centre of Delphi\, 2005); “The Cyclades through the Lens of 20 Contemporary Artists” (Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art\, Athens\, 2005); “Giorgio de Chirico and Greece: A Journey through Memory” (Athinais Cultural Center\, Athens/Onassis Foundation\, New York\, 2007); “A Forest of Sculptures—The Simon Spierer Collection from the Darmstadt State Museum” (Athinais Cultural Center\, Athens\, 2008); “35 visual artists stand for Democracy” (Zappeion\, Athens\, 2009); “Leonardo Cremonini” (Athinais Cultural Center\, Athens\, 2010); “C. P. Cavafy: Pictured. 40 Contemporary Greek Artists” (Theocharakis Foundation\, Athens\, 2013); “Dimitris Mytaras: Painting” (European Parliament\, Brussels\, 2014); “Picasso-Cocteau: Pioneers of Modernism (Theocharakis Foundation Athens\, 2015); “Odysseas Elytis: Poetry and Painting” (Telogleion Arts Foundation\, Thessaloniki\, 2016); and “George Seferis: When the light dances\, I speak fairly” (Telogleion Arts Foundation\, Thessaloniki\, 2019). He has published books\, catalogues\, and has written numerous articles and reviews on the visual arts. \nThis lecture is also co-sponsored by the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University. \nTo sign up for the lecture\, click here. \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/takis-mavrotas-theofilos-the-tsolias-of-painting/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Dinos Kogias\, "Souvenir of Kütahya: Imprints of History on Kütahya Pottery (late 19th-early 20th century)"
DESCRIPTION:The decorative repertoire of the pottery produced in Kütahya\, a town in western Turkey and a major ceramic center in Ottoman times\, has been influenced by events of modern history\, such as the Balkan Wars\, the Ottoman Constitution of 1908\, and the Greek-Turkish War (1919-1922). Τhe purpose of this lecture is to contribute to our knowledge and understanding of Kütahya pottery from the end of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth while presenting certain little-known aspects of this production\, particularly during the fifteen-month period of the town’s occupation by the Greek armed forces from July 1921 to August 1922. During this period\, the production of pottery\, which had been interrupted because of the war\, resumed and a large number of items ended up in Greece\, mainly brought back by Greek soldiers. Many of these ceramics bear Greek commemorative inscriptions\, as ‘souvenirs of Kütahya\,’ with the initials or even full names of their first owners\, and accordingly serve as important historical evidence of specific social and cultural referents. \nDinos Kogias was born in 1964 in Karlovasi\, Samos. He lives and works as a lawyer in Athens. He collects\, researches and writes about modern Greek\, Ottoman and Balkan ceramics. He is a founding member of DIKTIO\, a Southeast European ceramics research group\, and regularly participates in related international symposia. He has published two books on his home island of Samos [Samos 1862- 1920: Photos and Postcards and The tram at Karlovasi\, Samos (1905-1939)] and one on the pottery of Kütahya\, published by the Benaki Museum: SOUVENIR OF KÜTAHYA: Imprints of History on Kütahya’s Pottery (late 19th – early 20th century). Another study of Samian pottery of the 19th and 20th centuries is forthcoming. \nRSVP here. \n  \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/dinos-kogias-souvenir-of-kutahya-imprints-of-history-om-kutahya-pottery-late-19th-early-20th-century/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Mara Verykokou\, "1821: The Collectors' Choice.' An Exhibition Commemorating the Greek War of Independence from an Original Viewpoint."
DESCRIPTION:Benaki Museum curator Mara Verykokou guides us through an exhibition that includes more than 300 objects related to the Revolution of 1821 and the movement of Philhellenism in Europe and America from four important private collections: Nikitas Stavrinakis and Evangelias Stavrinaki\, Petros Vergos\, Apostolos Argyriadis and Stéphan Adler. We shall be asked to decide whether the illustration of the Revolution in the daily life of the West was simply a fashion of the time or something deeper\, which expressed the support for the struggle of the Greeks for freedom. \nMara Verykokou joined the Benaki Museum in 2003 as assistant curator of the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Collection and she is currently its acting head. She obtained her MA in History of Art from the University of Aberdeen and her MA in Museum Studies from University College London. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens\, School of History and Archaeology\, with the thesis subject ‘Exhibition policy and communication in the Benaki Museum from the 1970s to the present (1970-2015) in the context of periodic exhibitions.’ Verykokou has been involved as a member of the research team in various exhibition projects\, including “Heaven and Earth; Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections” (National Gallery of Washington 2013-14\, J. Paul Getty Museum\, Los Angeles 2014\, Art Institute of Chicago 2014-15) and participated in the coordination of “Russian Religious Art from Russia to Greece” (Benaki Museum 2017-18). Her current research focuses on the Benaki Museum’s collection of late antique and medieval medical instruments. \nTo attend the event by Zoom\, RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/mara-verykokou-1821-the-collectors-choice-an-exhibition-commemorating-the-greek-war-of-independence-from-an-original-viewpoint/
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CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Anastassios Antonaras\, Head of Exhibitions\, Communication and Education Department\, Museum of Byzantine Culture\, Thessaloniki |  “Documenting Diversity in Thessaloniki and Its Hinterlands: Three Archaeological Stories”
DESCRIPTION:This lecture examines the diverse population that lived in Byzantine Thessaloniki and the surrounding area through three case studies: a young girl with African religious beliefs who lived in the late 3rd century\, a Slavic lady of the late 8th century\, and a group of archers from the 14th – 15th century who were trained in the east. The first case study is a young girl who was buried in a simple pit tomb in the eastern necropolis of Thessaloniki. She wore two amulets: a wooden one\, probably of ebony\, in the shape of a male head with strong African features\, and an amber one in the shape of feline bust. A Slavic lady\, the second case study\, is identified by a special bead that was found during excavations in the castle of Rentina\, east of Thessaloniki. Such beads are characteristic of the Slavic tribes and similar examples have been found from the Volga region and Germany to Greece. A special type of men’s utilitarian jewelry\, the ring of an archer\, presents the third case study. This is a type of ring that initially had the sole purpose of protecting the thumb when the reflective bow’s string was released. These case studies demonstrate that among the population that lived in Byzantine Thessaloniki were a number of foreigners whose identity is only revealed through the careful examination of excavated objects.  \nDr. Anastassios C. Antonaras\, a specialist in the history of glass\, jewelry and textiles\, is an archaeologist and curator. He is Head of the Exhibitions\, Communication and Education Department at the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki. His books include: Glassworking\, Ancient and Medieval: Terminology\, Technology and Typology (2008); Roman and Early Christian Glassworking: Vessels from Thessaloniki and Its Region (which received a prize from the Academy of Athens in 2010); Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum (2012); Artisanal Production in Ancient and Byzantine Thessaloniki: Archaeological\, Literary and Epigraphic Evidence (2016; repr. 2019); Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: 1st Century BC – 6th Century AD (2017); and The Art of Glass. Works from the Collection of the Museum of Byzantine Culture (2019). He is currently researching different aspects of glass production and glassware in Byzantine and Ottoman Empire and publishing the rich and diverse\, ancient and Islamic glass collection of the Getty Villa Museum. \nThe event is co-sponsored by the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center\, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, and the Archaeological Institute of America–Los Angeles County Society.  \nTo register\, please click here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/anastassios-antonaras-head-of-exhibitions-communication-and-education-department-museum-of-byzantine-culture-thessaloniki-documenting-diversity-in-thessaloniki-and-its-hinterlands-th/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art History,Byzantine,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T100000
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SUMMARY:Tassos Sakellaropoulos (Head of Historical Archives) and Maria Dimitriadou (Historical Archives)\, “1821\, Before and After: Narrating and Curating 100 Years of Greek History”
DESCRIPTION:The year 2021 marks the bicentenary of the 1821 declaration of the Greek War of Independence. To celebrate this major anniversary\, the Benaki Museum\, together with the Bank of Greece\, the National Bank of Greece\, and ALPHABANK are mounting a major exhibition of works of art and historical testimonies under the title “1821\, Before and After.” The exhibition will cover over a century in the history of modern Hellenism\, from 1770 to 1880. Among other aspects\, the following will be presented through the rich collections of the Museum and the artworks housed in the three banking institutions: everyday life\, trade\, education among the Greeks\, the preparation for the War of Independence as well as the events as they unfolded\, the philhellenic movement\, the work of Ioannis Kapodistrias\, the creation of the new state of Greece\, the reign of King Otho\, the building of modern Athens and the early years of George I’s reign up until the opening of the Corinth Canal. \nDr. Tassos Sakellaropoulos is a historian and Head of the Benaki Museum Historical Archives. He studied History at the University of Siena in Italy. His main area of interest is the history of the Greek twentieth century\, in particular\, the political role of the Greek Army\, political events during the 1940s\, political persecutions in post-War Greece and the resistance to the 1967 dictatorship. Dr Sakellaropoulos has curated exhibitions and edited publications on the 19th and 20th centuries. He is a member of the Society for the Study of Modern Hellenism (Mnimon review) and a board member of the Archives of Modern Social History. \nDr. Maria Dimitriadou was born in Athens\, Greece\, and studied Political Sciences and History at the Panteion University\, where she was awarded a PhD from the Department on German Studies. Since 1994 she is a curator at the Historical Archives of the Benaki Museum. Dr. Dimitriadou has written numerous scholarly studies on modern Greek society and history\, covering\, among others\, the history of Skopelos in the 19th century\, the Balkan Wars\, and the relations between Greece and Germany during the Interwar. She has edited the Archive of the Greek Revolution held at the Benaki Museum\, in two volumes (published in 2011 and 2013). \nRSVP here to receive the link.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/tassos-sakellaropoulos-head-of-historical-archives-and-maria-dimitriadou-historical-archives-1821-before-and-after-narrating-and-curating-100-years-of-greek-history/
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CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201121T100000
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SUMMARY:Polina Kosmadaki (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art\, Head of the Department of Drawings and Prints\, Benaki Museum)\, “Charting Mediterranean Archaisms in a Modern Framework: Christian Zervos and the Cahiers d’art Method”
DESCRIPTION:Christos or Christian Zervos (Argostoli 1889–Paris 1970) played a definitive role in shaping the cultural climate in interwar Paris through his journal Cahiers d’Αrt\, which he founded in 1926 and published until 1960. It was one of the longest-lived modernist journals\, which numbered 97 issues. As early as the first issue\, Cahiers d’Αrt had focused on promoting modern art and on the dialogue between works of different origins and different historical periods. Zervos is also known as the publisher of the iconic catalogue of Pablo Picasso’s paintings from 1932 on\, known today as “le Zervos\,” as well as his archaeological publications on prehistoric civilisations\, for example those of Neolithic or Minoan Crete and the Cyclades. His contribution was particularly significant in the dissemination of ancient–especially prehistoric–Greek art as well as the redefinition of ancient civilisations and archaic forms in the context of modernism. In this lecture\, I will try to expose the key aspects of Christian Zervos’ methodology in Cahiers d’art and in editions focusing on the creation of meaningful relationships between Mediterranean and earlier civilizations and the art of his time. I will speak about both his position and his practice in regard to the redefinition and reappraisal of various archaisms during the interwar period\, and make a case for his innovative approach of fusing modernism and antiquity within a liquid conception of time. \nPolina Kosmadaki is an art historian living and working in Athens. She holds a Ph.D in Art History from the University of Paris-IV-Sorbonne. She is currently Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Head of the Department of Paintings of the Benaki Museum\, Athens and a Lecturer of Art History in the European Studies program of the Hellenic Open University. Since 2008 she is an associate researcher of the French School at Athens’ Modern Section\, currently the Head Researcher of a project on the editor and art critic Christian Zervos and his journal Cahiers d’art. She has edited the volumes: Christian Zervos & Cahiers d’art\, the archaic turn\, 2019; Paris-Athènes 1919-1939 Le double voyage\, École Francaise d’Athènes\, 2018 (with Lucile Farnoux); Greece: Traces of today\, Imago Mundi\, Fabrica\, Luciano Benetton Foundation\, 2015; Institution critique-critical institutions\, AICA HELLAS\, September 2013 (with Elpida Karampa). She has curated numerous exhibitions both for the Benaki Museum and as an independent curator\, for example: Christian Zervos & Cahiers d’art\, Benaki Museum\, Musée Zervos Vézelay\, École Francaise d‘Athènes 2019\, Jannis Varelas\, Anima I\, 2019\, Liquid Antiquity\, DESTE & Benaki Museum 2017\, Ametria\, Deste & Benaki Museum\, 2015\, George Lappas\, Happy Birthday\, Deste & Benaki Museum 2016\, Cabinets of Miracles with Christoforos Marinos for ZONE D\, 2010. Since 2011 she is running the commissions program «Artists in dialogue with the Benaki Museum» (Andy Holden\, Adam Chodzko\, Ciara Philips\, Zafos Xagoraris\, Antonis Pittas)\, in collaboration with the British Council\, Greece. \nRSVP\, click here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/hellenic-together-polina-kosmadaki/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T100000
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SUMMARY:Anna Ballian (Curator Emerita\, Benaki Museum)\, “Bacini or Immured Vessels on Post- Byzantine Churches\, 16th-17th Century: The Case of Iznik\, Italian and Local Ware”
DESCRIPTION:The image of a small church with immured ceramic vessels on its walls is interwoven with representations of the Greek landscape\, whether on the islands or on the mainland. The practice of decorating church façades with brightly decorated vessels is older than the 16th century and the Ottoman period in Greece\, and is related to the phenomenon of bacini\, or plates\, immured in the façades of Italian religious buildings from the 11th to the 15th centuries. The spread of the practice appears to have followed sea routes and commercial networks opened up by Italian maritime cities. In Greece\, the practice is particularly apparent after 1204 in areas ruled over by Franks or Venetians. Glazed ceramic plates of various origins\, whether local Byzantine or imported from Islamic or Christian Mediterranean countries\, appeared on the exterior walls of late Byzantine churches and this practice continued after the Ottoman conquest with local\, Ottoman\, Italian and other Western European ceramics until the 19th century. This lecture will focus on a group of 16th- to 17th-century churches in Euboea\, Thessaly and the Peloponnese. Ottoman immured vessels from Iznik and possibly from Kütahya are the novel factor\, the outcome of a new political reality and change of taste\, but they co-exist with Italian maiolica vessels which continued to be traded along the same routes. Dating these ceramics helps provide a chronology for newly built or renovated churches and\, when possible\, unfolds the mechanism of patronage and the status of the donors. Eventually\, the study of early churches and their immured vessels will expand our knowledge about the Greek elites of the early Tourkokratia. \nAnna Ballian is curator emerita of the Benaki Museum of Islamic Αrt. She began working at the Benaki as a curator of the post-Byzantine collection of church silver and embroideries and has worked on the presentation and opening of the Benaki | Greek Culture and Benaki | Islamic Art. She completed her BA in History and Archaeology at the University of Athens\, her MA in Islamic Art from SOAS\, London\, and her PhD at the University of Birmingham\, Centre for Byzantine\, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies with a thesis on the art and patronage of the Christian communities in Asia Minor during the Ottoman period. She has contributed and curated several exhibitions and published on Byzantine and Islamic art and culture\, and on post-Byzantine\, Armenian and Ottoman art and culture\, especially silverwork\, textiles and ceramics. \nRSVP here to receive the link.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/anna-ballian-curator-emerita-benaki-museum-bacini-or-immured-vessels-on-post-byzantine-churches-16th-17th-century-the-case-of-iznik-italian-and-local-ware/
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CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T100000
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SUMMARY:Xenia Politou (Aegeas AMKE Curator of Modern Greek Culture\, Benaki Museum)\, “The Costume of Women in Greece: Styles and References”
DESCRIPTION:Local Greek women’s costumes are impressive because of their wide variety and large number of local variations. A more methodical analysis can bring to the surface certain common characteristics and will help the careful observer to identify from among these varieties the basic styles and main influences that contributed to their creation. The vicissitudes of history\, the different rulers—mainly Ottomans and Venetians—who left their mark on a pre-existing Byzantine sartorial system\, and the absence of a unified Greek territory before the 1830s explain the great diversity and variety of Greek women’s costumes. Even after the creation of the Greek state in 1832\, the local style of garments still received another invasion: the invasion of a late industrial revolution and European fashion which brought new patterns and styles. Finally\, the abandonment of local costumes has been progressive—obviously slower in isolated villages—throughout the 19th century until around the 1950s. This lecture attempts to present an analysis of the basic elements common to all costumes and to their classification according to their main styles\, as they had been fashioned during a long period of foreign occupations. \nXenia Politou is Aegeas AMKE Curator of Modern Greek Culture\, Benaki Museum. She was born in Athens and studied French and Comparative Literature in Athens and Paris. From 1993 through 2001 she worked at the Museum of the History of the Greek Costume in Athens. At the same time\, she also participated in the National Archive of the Greek Traditional Costume\, a research program on clothing subsided by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Between 2002 and 2005\, she worked for the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation on the organization of the “Ptychoseis = Folds + Pleats: Drapery from Ancient Greek Dress to 21st Century Fashion” exhibition\, the first international fashion exhibition in Greece. Since March 2005\, she has been working at the Benaki Museum\, first in the Exhibition Department\, and since September 2010 she has been Curator of its Modern Greek Culture Department. Her research interests include the study of Greek local costumes and Greek embroideries. She is a member of the ICOM Costume Committee and founding member and Chair of the Hellenic Costume Society. \nTo RSVP\, click here. \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/xenia-politou-aegeas-amke-curator-of-modern-greek-culture-benaki-museum-the-costume-of-women-in-greece-styles-and-references/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Irini Papageorgiou\, "Rites of Passage: The Wedding Rituals in Classical Athens"
DESCRIPTION:Irini Papageorgiou is Curator of the Department of Prehistoric\, Ancient Greek\, and Roman Collections at the Benaki Museum \nTo receive a Zoom link for this lecture\, please RSVP to hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/irini-papageorgiou-rites-of-passage-the-wedding-rituals-in-classical-athens/
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art History,Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T100000
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SUMMARY:George Manginis\, "'For the Benefit of the Nation': A Collection of Chinese Art for Greece"
DESCRIPTION:George Aristides Eumorfopoulos (1863-1939)\, was a British collector of Chinese\, Korean and Near Eastern art. He was born at 43 Bedford Street South\, Mount Pleasant\, Merseyside\, the son of Aristides Georges Eumorfopoulos (1825–1897) and Mariora Eustratius Scaramanga (1840–1908). His grandparents had fled the Greek island of Chios during the massacre of its population by the Ottoman army in 1822. Eumorfopoulos worked for a London firm established in 1819 – Ralli Brothers\, of Greek origin\, a firm of private bankers who were also importers of rice\, cotton and hemp from India. By the time he retired in August 1934 he had risen to the position of Vice President of the firm. Since 1922 he lived at 7 Chelsea Embankment in London\, a townhouse he had converted into a museum. Eumorfopoulos was a respected collector of Asian art. In the early stages of his collecting activity he focused on European medieval and renaissance art and 18th century ceramics alongside Japanese art\, but he soon diversified into early Chinese art\, especially after 1906. He not only made use of the services of experts or agents\, but also relied on his own rapidly growing experience in acquiring objects. His collection of Oriental art grew to an enormous size\, obliging him to add a two-storey extension to the back of his Chelsea house. He founded the Oriental Ceramic Society and was its first president from 1921 until his death in 1939. He organised and funded the publication of eleven volumes illustrating and describing items from his collection during the 1920s and early 1930s. Free access to his collection and encouragement from him inspired his neighbors Nell and Charles Vyse to experiment with Oriental stoneware glazes. Eumorfopoulos had intended to bequeath his collection to the British nation\, but the Great Depression of the 1930s forced him to sell part of it\, in what was called ‘a princely gesture’\, to the Victoria and Albert and British Museums for £100 000 in 1934/5; he also sold some duplicates through Bluett’s\, the London art dealers\, and between 1927 and 1936 donated 800 pieces to the Benaki Museum\, Athens. This lecture looks at the fascinating life of this collector and at the important collection that the Benaki holds. \nGeorge Manginis is Academic Director of the Benaki Museum. \nTo receive a Zoom link for this lecture\, please email hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/george-manginis-for-the-benefit-of-the-nation-a-collection-of-chinese-art-for-greece/
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T120000
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SUMMARY:Mina Moraitou\, "'Mr. Byzantoine et ses amis': Antonis Benakis and the Art Scene of Alexandria"
DESCRIPTION:Antonis Benakis was born in Egypt into a Greek family with a strong sense of duty towards society. He maintained close ties with the homeland and had\, as all Greeks did\, a strong sense of Greek identity although he was born and raised abroad. In a time of irredentist ideas\, he contributed to Greece’s struggle to expand its borders by supporting operations or participating along with other family members. As he was growing up in Alexandria\, Benakis became a passionate art collector. His had a wide range of interests and gradually he managed to form remarkable collections.This paper will focus on the artistic scene of Alexandria during the years before the move to Athens\, the contribution of the Greek community and especially the role of Antonis Benakis. Furthermore\, it will highlight the eclectic taste of the collector and the way in which it was reflected in the creation of the Benaki Museum in Athens.  \nMina Moraitou is Curator of the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art \nTo register for the Zoom lecture\, please RSVP to hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/mina-moraitou-mr-byzantoine-et-ses-amis-antonis-benakis-and-the-art-scene-of-alexandria/
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T120000
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SUMMARY:Aliki Tsigialou\, "Nelly's: Reflections on the Life and Work of the Female Photographer Elli Seraidari-Sougioultzoglou (1899-1998)
DESCRIPTION:A native of Aydin in Asia Minor\, Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari–better known by her professional name of Nelly’s–was first influenced by German trends in photography. The two main characteristics of her work\, and indeed of her life\, were freedom and movement. She owed her pictorial technique and her classical sense of aesthetics to the influence of her German teachers\, Hugo Erfurth and Franz Fiedler. However\, in 1924\, after establishing herself in Athens and opening a photography studio in Ermou Street\, she adopted a more Greek-centered and conservative approach to her work. An early interest in portraiture\, maintained throughout her professional career in Greece and the USA\, provides us with rare pictures of interwar Athenian society\, as well as an important source of information on America’s Greek immigrants. From 1927 until the outbreak of World War II\, Nelly’s traveled throughout Greece\, documenting the entire panorama of Greek life. As a Diaspora Greek\, Nelly’s view of Greece tended to be somewhat “idealized”. Her photographs appeared in official tourist publications that were circulated abroad\, and contributed to creating the earliest visual symbols of Greece’s “philosophy regarding tourism.” She systematically depicted the ancient monuments and archaeological sites of Greece. Her experiments with natural light and her photographs of ancient temples\, demonstrating their interrelationship\, are true masterpieces\, bringing to mind the work of Erfurth’s German student\, Walter Hege. Nelly’s photographs of dancers in Germany and\, above all\, on the Acropolis (1923-29) demonstrate exceptional thematic cohesion and identify her as one of the leading dance photographers of the interwar period. Having gone into self-imposed exile in the USA following the outbreak of World War II in 1939\, she added advertising photography\, color photography and photo reporting (New York streets & Easter Parade) to her range of skills\, although she was not overly influenced by the trends of contemporary American photography. Nelly’s died in Athens\, after a lifetime of passionate dedication to her art. She left a body of work\, which remains exemplary from both an artistic and a technical standpoint; it represents a valuable legacy to the photographers of today. \nFor a Zoom link for this lecture\, please RSVP: hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/aliki-tsigialou-nellys-reflections-on-the-life-and-work-of-the-female-photographer-elli-seraidari-sougioultzoglou-1899-1998/
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T120000
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SUMMARY:Evita Arapoglou\, "Niko Ghika\, John Craxton\, Patrick Leigh Fermor: Charmed Lives in Greece"
DESCRIPTION:This lecture\, by author and art historian Evita Arapoglou\, will present the life and work of Greek painter Niko Ghika (Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika)\, British painter John Craxton\, and the British writer Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor\, who all made homes in Greece. Meeting at the end of World War II\, the three men formed a friendship that would endure to the end of their lives. They shared an interest and passion for Hellenistic culture and contributed to what is now understood to be “a golden age of Anglo-Greek artistic and literary collaboration.” \nPlease RSVP hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu for a Zoom link.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/evita-arapoglou-niko-ghika-john-craxton-patrick-leigh-fermor-charmed-lives-in-greece/
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic
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