Athens
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Greece: Athens Biennale, the crisis as art
28 November 20112184 Expressen Stockholm -
Greece: Give us this day our really cheap bread
26 May 2010422 Ta Nea Athens -
Anniversary: Street fighting Greeks
7 December 2009PresseuropTa Nea -
Cultural heritage: Acropolis now
19 June 20091 I Kathimerini Athens
In a country destabilised by the crisis, the 3rd Athens Biennale contemporary art festival has been largely overlooked. However, a Swedish journalist argues that the exhibition offers an opportunity to appreciate the urgency of the moment. 
Bakers in Athens have decided to lower the price of bread to 50 cents. The initiative could soon be imitated in other sectors in the country, where the decline in consumer spending has even affected the market for basic grocery items. 
June 20, Athens inaugurates with great fanfare the New Acropolis Museum. This avant garde building has provoked controversy and has reignited the long running dispute between Greece and Britain about the ownership of the Elgin Marbles.