The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum has unveiled a new digital archive featuring 1,000 fully transcribed and translated letters by the celebrated author, offering global readers and researchers unprecedented access to his personal correspondence The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum has launched a major cultural project, releasing 1,000 digitized letters written by the internationally known Greek author and thinker. […]
Descendants of a Jewish couple claim Vincent van Gogh’s Olive Picking was seized under Nazi rule and illegally traded before ending up in New York and Athens
In New York, the Cooper Hewitt, housed in the historic Andrew Carnegie Mansion, is the U.S.’s only museum entirely dedicated to design.
A total of seven suspects are now in custody after the October 19 theft at the Louvre, though the stolen jewelry has yet to be recovered
French police have arrested two men in connection with last week’s audacious Louvre robbery, which saw jewels worth €88 million stolen in under ten minutes. Investigators gathered over 150 DNA samples as the hunt for the remaining suspects and loot continues
“Still Life with Guitar,” missing for weeks, was found before a planned exhibition in southern Spain, police say, as investigation continues into its disappearance.
After a daring €88 million jewel heist, Louvre Director Laurence des Cars admits “we were defeated,” outlining major security flaws and urging France’s Interior Ministry to establish a permanent police presence within the world’s most-visited museum
The Athens meeting, known as the “Pink Diamond Conference,” was organized jointly by EUROPOL, EMPACT, and Greece’s equivalent of the FBI.
A multibillion-dollar global black market deals in gold, diamonds and jewels stolen from museums and private collections
The audacious jewel theft at Paris’s Louvre Museum has stunned the world — but it’s only the latest chapter in a long history of spectacular art and museum robberies, from Rembrandt’s stolen portraits to the “heist of the century” in Athens
Four masked thieves used a lift truck to break into the Louvre’s Apollon Gallery and steal priceless royal jewels in under ten minutes, raising questions about the museum’s security
The robbers attacked the first two galleries—the Napoleon Gallery and the French Sovereigns’ Gallery—stealing nine pieces from Napoleon and the Empress’s jewelry collection
Beyond its famous landmarks, Rome conceals small cultural treasures—gems of history, art, and daily life that reveal the city’s timeless power and identity
The presentation of part of Nikos Kazantzakis' correspondence with his wife Eleni Samiou from the collections of the Kazantzakis Museum in Myrtia, Crete, marks the start of a new era for the institution—one focused on research
Michalis Taroudakis, president of the Board of Directors of the museum dedicated to the great author and thinker, and its director Marilena Milathianaki, guide VIMAgazino through its spaces and speak about its activities, which remain faithful to the universal spirit of a man who was — and continues to be — read by every generation of modern Greece, and who is admired from the United States to faraway India and China.
Each year, the Greek branch of ICOMOS marks this anniversary with special events.
The establishment of a new center for the study of the Cycladic civilization was announced last week by the Greek culture ministry. Emerging in the central Aegean islands during the late Neolithic to early Bronze Age, this iconic culture is widely known for its schematic figurines of mostly female subjects, often carved in local marble. […]
The three projects funded by the RRF will aim to strengthen MOMus digital and cultural presence, as well as its social contribution
This weekend's top picks include art exhibitions spanning from the 30's to the present day, a swing musical concert, and an all-time classic theatrical performance
The 60th Venice Biennale will commence in spring with a Greek representation, featuring the artistic, hybrid visual installation 'Dryland'