It was a beautiful, warm and sunny Thursday morning in Athens when I decided to visit some of the (many) galleries around Kolonaki Square, right in the heart of the city. Kolonaki is still (although kind of toned-down due to the fiscal crises)…

    One of the two fall exhibitions at the Picasso Museum examines Cubism in relation to the trauma of the First World War. The First World War had a very particular effect on the artists featured in the show, including a large contingent of…

By George Margaronis     Paris, London, Milan, Florence, Madrid and Stockholm, besides their many and obvious charms, are all little shopping heavens for the fashionable visitors. Endless avenues of huge department stores next to cobblestone roads of cozy concept stores are waiting for the…

By Daniel Stuart     It is actually amazing to see for yourself how warm the weather is this time of year in Athens! I was walking the center of the city just 2 days ago, wearing a very light jacket over a short-sleeved T-shirt…

By Daniel Stuart       Visiting Madrid is always a good idea but doing it now is a great one; the weather is perfect, the streets are less crowdy and all the city’s cultural venues start their new season with spectacular exhibitions and events.…

By George Margaronis     If you plan to visit Milan this November you most probably already have a full list of things to do and see, ranging from museum visits to endless shopping at Via Montenapoleone or Corso Buenos Aires (depending on your spending…

Lesvos, Greece Oct. 18, 2015. A mother and child  wrapped in an emergency blanket after disembarking on the beach of Kayia, on the north of the Greek island of Lesvos.  © Alessandro Penso © Officine Fotografiche Roma     2012. Corinth. Greece. 17-year old Mohamed…

Exhibitions opening this week   PARIS Picasso Museum - Picasso-GiacomettiFrom  October 5 to February 5, 2017   The exhibition brings to light the formal relationships, friendly or iconographic, that sustained these two major 20th.c. artists by reuniting more than 200 artworks of these two masters…

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of 10 Corso Como, the Carla Sozzani Galleria presents for the first time in Italy an exhibition by David Seidner, one of the leading fashion photographers of the 80s and 90s. The show, featuring exhibition prints by the…

Exhibitions opening this week   BILBAO Guggenheim Museum - Francis Bacon: From Picasso to VelázquezFrom September 30, 2016 to January 8, 2017   An exhibition of almost 80 works including  some of the most important and yet least exhibited paintings by this British artist born…