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A striking mural of iconic Greek actress Melina Mercouri, famous for both her career on the big screen as well as her life of activism, has kicked off ArtWalk's Fifth International Street Arts Festival in Patras. The impressive graffiti piece...

The Art Dose is a new arts venue opening its doors for the first time in Glyfada's Florida Mall on March 22. This area, which has been thought as an art gallery as well as art boutique, is the brainchild...

The British magazine Economist says that anti-austerity artists are impressing the tourists in Athens with their imaginative street art and graffiti on buildings. Much of the graffiti scrawled or stencilled on empty buildings and shuttered shop fronts has a resentful tone....

INO is a Greek street artist who has created the most impressive and artful murals in Athens. Recently, he was invited to Cyprus to make a mural for the country's parliament in Nicosia. His works can be found in several...

Internationally known Greek street artist INO, created the faces of Solon and Pericles in the interior space of the Cypriot Parliament. INO is one of few street artists in the world who has sprayed graffiti in a Parliament. INO also...

We spoke to one of Greece's most popular street artists to find out if the crisis played a role in Athens' graffiti renaissance. A few months ago a German friend of mine who was visiting Greece told me she considers...

Through an extensive photographic article, entitled “Athens: A Canvas for Austerity-Themed Street Art,” the news agency Bloomberg presented several works of art found in the streets of the Greek capital that were inspired by the economic crisis. The article noted...

He goes by the simple name Fikos, he is 27 years old and his artwork decorates the walls of state buildings in Europe. But it doesn't end there, his fame also goes beyond the Atlantic. Fikos who was born and...

Shopkeepers at Kleisovis Street in the center of Athens took the initiative to decorate their street and make their daily lives more colorful. The Cube Athens which operates on the pedestrian zone of Kleisovis Street, spoke with the shopkeepers of...

The austerity measures have driven Greeks into a state of desperation over the last four years and the troubled times that many are coping with are now being expressed all over the walls of Athens. Around 60 artists participated in...

Every Saturday until the end of June 2014, thirty European and thirty Greek Street Artists ask us to meet them at Spata, Athens, to join them in drawing the Smart Park, industrial buildings, storehouses as well as other public...

The work of some artists cannot be “restricted” to a gallery or placed in an exhibition.These pieces are made for a different purpose. Their creators use art to express their feelings. They were inspired by the “streets” and that...

Twenty top street artists from all over Europe are coming to change the hazy face of Athens. Lively colors and smart messages on the city’s walls, starting from the Athens School of Fine Arts and from public buildings of...

Where else in the world would the wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort, crush his birthday party than in the hedonism capital of Mykonos in Greece? The disgraced former stockbroker, resurrected by his tell-all autobiography then made famous by Leonardo...

It has been revealed that a mime artist, who entertained the Cretan town of Heraklion with various impersonations – notably of the famous silent actor Charlie Chaplin – was in fact an internationally wanted fugitive. The artist had been frequenting Lions Square in Heraklion, but has absent from...