World Media on Greece: Culture - 2007 Archive
Greek Business Schools (The Independent, 16.12.2007)
The ninth edition of Independent's guide "A-Z Business Schools 2008" aims to give people who are thinking of applying for an MBA an idea of what the business schools in the UK and Europe are like. Included in the guide are all the European business schools accredited by AMBA (Association of MBAs). The list includes 3 Greek business schools:
The ALBA Graduate Business School, which was founded in 1992 through a joint initiative of the Federation of Greek Industries (the leading Employers' Union in Greece) and the Hellenic Management Association. ALBA has won two first prizes and two second prizes at the European Business Plan of the Year competition. Read more... The Thessaloniki Business SchoolThessaloniki Business School (ISBS), an undergraduate and postgraduate educational institution, founded in 1977 by a group of business leaders. The school aims to combine the best of European and local business education, using innovative methods of learning and state-of-the-art technology. Read more... |
The Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Greece. AUEB was founded in 1920 to train up-and-coming Greek business magnates. An MBA and MSc in economics started in 1985, and since then 21 graduate programs have been developed. Professor
Holiday Books : The Greeks (New York Times, 2.12.2007)
The hundreds of color photographs that overflow the pages of this opulent large-format volume exhibit uncontested masterpieces of Greek art in all their glory. Some, just to scratch the lustrous surface, are as familiar as the bronze charioteer from Delphi or the Victory of Samothrace, which now stands atop the Daru staircase in the Louvre. These ancient treasures, together with historic photographs of the major excavations, aerial panoramas of splendid sites, old watercolors and lithographs, and 19th-century architectural renderings, are enough to leave a deep impression on anyone with a drop of philhellenic blood. The result is an invigorating and congenial tour through the mainland and the islands. Most of the major sites are covered - Athens, Delos, Delphi, Olympia, Knossos and Mycenae - with bracing excursions to places like Poliochni on Lemnos, considered to be the first urban center in Europe, and Salamis in Cyprus, site of tomb sacrifices of horses and humans, seemingly inspired by scenes recorded in the 23rd book of Homer’s Iliad. Read more... |
Great Moments in Greek Archaeology - Book Review by Steve Goates
Eleftheros Typos wins Best-Designed European National Newspaper Award (The Editors Weblog, 22.11.2007)
 The Greek paper Eleftheros Typos won the Best-Designed European National Newspaper of the Year Award, after it redesigned last May with the help of the Innovation consulting group. 288 newspapers from 26 countries participated in the awards competition.“This award is also a recognition of how content-driven redesigns work,” commented the Innovation in Newspapers blog. Read more... |
Chinese movie wins top Greek film festival award (International Herald Tribune/AP, 25.11.2007)
A Chinese film about a man who returns to his hometown to find he has officially been declared dead has won the top award at the 48th International Thessaloniki Film Festival, organizers said Sunday.
Shangjun Cai's "The Red Awn" received the Golden Alexander for best international film, winning a cash prize of 37,000 euro ($55,000). Read more...
50 unmissable film festivals - Thessaloniki (Variety, 7.09.2007)
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Greek art fetches record prices (Kathimerini, 16.11.2007)
 As A. Koroxenidis reports, the success of Sotheby’s Greek Sale, which took place on Wednesday in the main branches of the London auction house, surpassed the best expectations and marked a profit that was far higher than the original estimate made by Sotheby’s experts. Proceeds from the sale amount to 11,584,360 euros (8,163,725 pounds sterling), which, according to the official announcement that followed the sale, is the highest amount garnered at any auction of Greek art held thus far, not just by Sotheby’s but by other auction houses as well. Read More...
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Mouskouri sets off on farewell tour after 40-year career (The Independant, 26.10.2007)
As Jonathan Brown reports, back in 1966, a young Nana Mouskouri, then relatively little known outside mainland Europe, embarked on a tour of the US with Harry Belafonte.Forty years on, 450 albums, 230 gold and platinum discs and 300 million records sold later, Nana Mouskouri took to the stage of St David's Hall in Cardiff last night still sporting those famous spectacles to begin the first British night of her epic farewell tour.Read more...
On a Greek Island, A Stitch Back in Time (The Washington Post, 21.10.2007)
 Elen Ryan reports about one of the few remaining professional hand-weavers in Greece, Eleni Pavlou, who has set up shop in the the unspoiled island of Poros. Pavlou, who creates tapestries, pillows and scarves among other things, has won an award from the Handwoven magazine for the design of an embroidered towel called "Ta Poulia," or "The Birds," which was adapted from the sleeve of a traditional women's costume in the Benaki Museum in Athens. Read more...R
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The Holy Mount Athos - (Le Figaro, 11.10.2007)
French academic Michel Deon writes an applauding review for Greek writer Vassilis Alexakis' latest book titled "Ap.J.–C". Deon talks extensively about the book's plot, in which Holy Mount Athos plays a central role, and concludes : "Alexakis, a Greek, has been writing in French for the past 30 years with great mastery. This book is the coronation of a work that has never turned it's back on its roots." Read more...Read more...
(AFP, 25.10.2007) Greek author Vassilis Alexakis has been awarded one of France's top fiction awards, the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Academie Francaise, for his novel "Ap. J.C," the academy said Thursday. Read more...
"Destroy Athens" in order to reconstuct it (Liberation, 9.10.2007)
Maria Malagardi reports from Athens about the 1st contemporary art Biennial in Greece. As Malagardi explaines, the Biennial attempts to dissolve stereotypes and cliches about Athens, hence the title "Derstoy Athens". The Biennial has proved to be very succesful so far, attracting up to 600 visitors per day. Among the artists participating in the Biennale, special mention is made of Greek artists Vassilis Karouk, Eva Stefani and Stefanos Tsivopoulos, as well as international artists John Bock, Martin Skauen and Aidas Bareikis. The charm of Charitos: Visiting Greek best seller writer Petros Markaris
The charm of Petros Markaris (Rheinischer Merkur, 3.8.2007)
Greek novelist, playwright and scriptwriter Petros Markaris, is profiled in the German newspaper Rheinischer Merkur (“The charm of Charitos: Visiting Greek best seller writer Petros Markaris”). Markaris has also translated seminal works of key German poets and playwrights, such as Goethe and Brecht.
The article relates the writer’s closeness with the language and culture of the German people, noting the success of his books in Germany and other European countries, with special reference to “Hellas Channel” which was amongst the German-translated Greek works representing Greece, honoured country at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair.
The name in the article’s title, “Charitos”, refers to the well known protagonist of Markaris mystery novels, a middle-aged homicide detective hailed as the “Greek Maigret”.
The Athens and Epidaurus Festival bursts into bloom (New York Times, 24.07.2007)
These include the concentration of the Athens events in the two months of June and July, the addition of new sites (like the warehouse complex in Pireos 260), making it possible to expand performance and audience possibilities and bringing in new kinds of companies like Ariane Mnouchkine or the Wooster Group, while the impressive international allure of the programme has turned Athens — like Avignon and Edinburgh — into a concentrated source for artistic producers seeking to discover new work. Read the entire article here. |
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Celebrations of Maria Callas Year
Bertrand Dermoncourt’s article for the L’Express magazine (“Les dix vies de la diva”, 19/07/2007) and Marie-Aude Roux’s article for newspaper Le Monde (“Hommage a la Callas en Grece”, 17/07/2007) present the celebrations of Maria Callas year, commemorating 30 years since her death.
