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“The single most beautiful object in gold on the planet” – ancient Greek Queens’ and Princesses’ fashion in Oxford

“The single most beautiful object in gold on the planet” – ancient Greek Queens’ and Princesses’ fashion in Oxford

This is the phrase in which historian Robin Lane Fox describes one of the exhibits at the “Heracles to Alexander the Great: Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the age of Democracy”exhibition. Referring to one of the queens’ necklaces displayed since Thursday at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Robin Lane Fox named it “the single most beautiful object in gold on the…

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A weekend full of Art on PaulaTrendsets

A weekend full of Art on PaulaTrendsets

I’ve been mostly focused on fashion since I started blogging on WordPress last November, but since PaulaTrendsets is a global trendspotting and trendsetting blog about fashion, art and culture, this weekend is dedicated to our Art & Culture section, introducing you to interesting art exhibitions in Cyprus, Greece, Poland, Italy and the UK. Choose from the links below to “visit” the show “Imagine it as Art”…

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Ivan Patúc and Karin Patúcová-Lunterová showing in Athens

Ivan Patúc and Karin Patúcová-Lunterová showing in Athens

Slovak artists Ivan Patúc and Karin Patúcová-Lunterová will be showing in Chili Art Gallery in Athens until this weekend. Karin creates through painting and sculpture through classic materials, like clay, which she chose as her main material for her series for Chili Art Gallery. Ivan Patúc investigates through his work the contradictions between past and present. He goes back to the roots…

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The Year of The Red Riding Hood

The Year of The Red Riding Hood

2010, it was Alice in the Wonderland. 2011, the Red Riding Hood is trending so much right now. Catherine Hardwicke shone a little Twilight on the classic children’s tale but that’s not over for Red Riding Hood. There’s a live bar in Athens where RR Hood (sounds more cool abbreviated, doesn’t it?) takes a quirky turn and proves to be a bad girl it’s been two seasons now. Not as dark…

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Boy George talks art, faith, and… Cyprus (video)

Boy George talks art, faith, and… Cyprus (video)

On the occasion of the -well-known by now- story when he returned a long lost icon he had accidentally bought by an art dealer, to its legal owners, the Church of Cyprus, music legend Boy George talked art, faith, and his beloved Cyprus on our over-the-phone interview for Sigma TV. The icon was stolen by the turkish troops who invaded the…

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