Yiorgos Savvinidis

Yiorgos Savvinidis has covered cultural affairs since 2002 and has worked at Phileleftheros since 2007.
Opinion

Penny-pinching on culture

From the promise of zero fiscal cost to today’s underfunding and bureaucratic dysfunction. Four years on, culture still rests...
Opinion

Hatred can’t hide its glee

What happens to a society when violence no longer needs to hide, and starts being paraded as an achievement...
Music

Dominic Miller: The art of simplicity is one of the hardest disciplines in music

The internationally renowned guitarist and composer, Sting's close collaborator and co-creator for three decades, talks about music, life, freedom...
Opinion

A new chapter, an old divide

Europe is widening the frame on its Cultural Capitals. Does Nicosia fit in the shot? Last Thursday, the European Commission...
Opinion

Has the artist been paid?

From the applause to the payslip: what it actually means to work professionally in culture in Cyprus. According to the...
Opinion

Long live the new idiocracy

I've noticed that the public conversation about artificial intelligence is still stuck on the same Promethean question: will it...
Films

We saw the Odyssey: Nolan loses the plot on the way to Ithaca

This film review contains spoilers. How many spoilers can you really drop about a story nearly three thousand years old,...
Opinion

Who curates the curators?

The corrupt Orban system in Hungary never had any inclination to ban art in general. Instead, it has attempted...
Theaters

Isabel Ordaz: ‘War is a failure, not an opportunity for glory’

The leading lady of Spanish theatre goes head to head with Euripides, speaking with him as if he were...
Opinion

The right to boredom

For days now, the words of Finnish artist Kalle Nio have been turning over in my mind, from an...
Events & Activities

Kalle Nio: It is a gift to be able to experience boredom

The Finnish magician, visual artist and director sees boredom as a creative force and art as a form of...
Opinion

A sandpaper for democracy

More and deeper democracy means a greater capacity to manage our disagreements. Technology should help us live with them...
Music

Luka Šulić: “I treat my cello as a human being”

The acclaimed virtuoso and composer who has done more than almost anyone to take the cello beyond the boundaries...
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