Tzavaras

Greece’s Cultural Affairs Deputy Minister Costas Tzavaras along with the managers of the Byzantine and Christian Museum, on April 25 welcomed American journalists specializing in art, culture, tourism and well-being who came to see an exhibit that will go...

Greece has pulled two ancient statues from an ongoing Olympic Games exhibition in Qatar in a dispute over nudity, a Culture Ministry source said, because the organizers in the country wanted to cover the genitalia. "The statues have already returned...

The historic building of Athens' Fix brewery is going to host the National Museum of Contemporary Art, opening in March 2014. The restoration of the building is in progress in order to create state of the art facilities for the...

The Ministry of Culture has decided to shut down the National Book Centre (EKEVI,) which has been in operation for 19 years but is another victim of the country's crushing economic crisis. The government is proceeding to close obsolete...

A play for the Athens Festival portraying Athanasios Diakos, a hero of the War of Independence who was impaled by the Turks, as a cuckolded souvlaki maker whose wife is impregnated by a Kurd has upset Greek officials. As noted...

ATHENS – As Greece’s economic crisis worsens and intensifies, new scrutiny is being brought on the 300 Members of Parliament, whose pay and benefits is more than members of the United States Congress, and some of whom are said...