The cultural frenzy had begun earlier that day in Athens, with brunch at the art-filled mansion of Greek collectors Dakis and Lietta Joannou. It was a lavish affair with a book bazaar, buffet ...

When he was a 13-year-old schoolboy, a tousled Greek youngster named Nicolas Hadgikyriaco ... Young Nicolas soon got over his astonishment at the new art. He began to paint himself, grew up ...

Photo by Catherine Panchout/ Sygma via Getty Images For the past many years, the Greek island of Hydra has been a regular destination for the art world jet set, with artists, dealers, collectors ...

A Greek artist whose work was vandalised by a far-right nationalist MP warned last week that fanaticism could spiral out of control in Western democracies. "This violence is increasingly present ...