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The Importance of being earnest

On the eve of her group exhibition at the Argo Gallery, Claire Hadjimina-Tsalouchidi talks to Insider about her unorthodox route into painting, her inspirations and
philanthropical aspirations

For someone with such a vibrant personality as Claire, her paintings are understated works in pastels. Her first solo exhibition at the very quaint Argo Gallery two years ago proved to be the beginning of an interesting tryst with her creative destiny. Her paintings then seemed to dwell on two of her favourite themes – miniature olive trees in all their glory with twisted trunks...

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City Life

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Reliving the Belle Epoque

Offering an other-worldly respite and a much needed break from its immediate environs and from the diffi cult times Athenians seem to be navigating, Belle Epoque on Voulis Street is the perfect hangout for a girlie afternoon. A surreal, slow-paced setting where a vintage clothing store, a tea salon and a travel book store offer a genteel escape into another world

A baby blue neo-classical mansion...

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Not just a decade of decadence

Cordelia Madden-Kanellopoulou, writer/ editor and currently brand ambassador
for Kiehl’s cosmetics, moved to Athens shortly before Insider launched its first issue. Here, she picks out a varied and subjective list of ten improvements that have transformed Greece’s capital in the ensuing decade

1. Digging for victory!

The Athens metro system is the envy of other European capitals which grimfacedly endure Victorian-era lines stuttering claustrophobically through graffiti-besplattered stations. Sleek, spotless, spacious halls featuring nonchalant arrangements of priceless antiquities and modern artworks seem more like exhibition spaces, their function only made apparent by the silver trains swishing in to-schedule every few minutes (well, except when the personnel are on strike). It slices below the gridlocked traffic that seethes on the surface; it’s clean, attractive, safe, and efficient. And, what’s more, it’s cheap, compared to the equivalent...

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Literature

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Genius rhymes with...

Poet AE Stallings talks to Barney Spender on her new status as genius, after receiving a grant from the Chicago based MacArthur Foundation, popularly referred to as ‘genius grants’ and on meeting her Muse in modern-day Athens

The American poet AE (Alicia) Stallings hails from Atlanta, Georgia but for the last few years has been living in Athens. Her first collection of poems, Archaic Smile, won the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award and was shortlisted for many other prizes, including the Yale Younger Poets Award. In 2008 she was given the Benjamin H Danks...

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