Museum of Cycladic Art
The Nikolaos P. Goulandris Foundation - Museum of Cycladic Art (Greek: Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής τέχνης) is a museum in Athens that houses a notable collection of artifacts of Cycladic art. The museum was founded in 1986 in order to house the collection of Cycladic and Ancient Greek art belonging to Nikolaos and Dolly Goulandris. Starting in the early 1960s, the couple collected Greek antiquities, with special interest in the prehistoric art from the Cyclades islands of the Aegean Sea.
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The Nikolaos P. Goulandris Foundation - Museum of Cycladic Art (Greek: Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής τέχνης) is a museum in Athens that houses a notable collection of artifacts of Cycladic art. The museum was founded in 1986 in order to house the collection of Cycladic and Ancient Greek art belonging to Nikolaos and Dolly Goulandris. Starting in the early 1960s, the couple collected Greek antiquities, with special interest in the prehistoric art from the Cyclades islands of the Aegean Sea.
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The museum's main building, erected in the centre of Athens in 1985, was designed by the Greek architect Ioannis Vikelas. In 1991, the Museum acquired a new building, the neo-classical Stathatos Mansion at the corner of Vassilissis Sofias Avenue and Herodotou Street. The museum's permanent collection includes over 3,000 items, and was described in The New York Times as "one of the world's most significant privately assembled collections of Cycladic antiquities."
Temporary exhibits are housed in the Stathatos Mansion. The museum's temporary exhibitions have included some of the most important Greek and international modern and contemporary artists. October 2002 – February 2003: Salvador Dalí - Myth and Singularity April–July 2006: Caravaggio - Caravaggio and the 17th Century November 2006 – January 2007: Opy Zouni - Itineraries through light and colour October 2007 – January 2008: El Greco - El Greco and his Workshop/El Greco y su taller June–September 2009: Thomas Struth September–October 2009: Palle Nielsen Man, Dream and Fear - Orpheus and Eurydice Through the Eyes of Palle Nielsen May–September 2010: Louise Bourgeois - Personages April–September 2012: Jannis Kounellis May–October 2012: Ugo Rondinone - Nude October 2013 – January 2014: Martin Kippenberger - Martin Kippenberger: A cry for freedom October 2015 – January 2016: Mario Merz - Numbers are prehistoric March–May 2016: Wols and Eileen Quinlan - Always stars with encounter | Wols / Eileen Quinlan May–October 2016: Ai Weiwei - Ai Weiwei at Cycladic May–September 2017: Cy Twombly and Greek antiquity. Part of the Divine Dialogues exhibition series. November 2017 – February 2018: Mike Kelley - Mike Kelley: Fortress of Solitude June–October 2018: George Condo - George Condo at Cycladic July–October 2018: Paul Chan - Paul Chan | Odysseus and the Bathers June–October 2019: Picasso and Antiquity - Line and clay. Part of the Divine Dialogues exhibition series November 2019 – March 2020: Lynda Benglis – Lynda Benglis: In the Realm of the Senses May–November 2024: Cindy Sherman at Cycladic: Early Works
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- 1.Renfrew, Colin. The Goulandris Museum of Cycladic and Ancient Greek Art. Archaeological Reports. 32. 134–141. Nov 1986. 2041-4102.
- 2.The Founders. Museum of Cycladic Art.
- 3.Museum of Cycladic Art. Greek Travel Pages.
- 4.The Buildings. Museum of Cycladic Art.
- 5.Moynihan, Colin. Leonard Stern's Cycladic Art Will Be Shown at the Met but Owned by Greece. The New York Times. 2022-10-11. 0362-4331.
- 6.Exhibitions. Museum of Cycladic Art.
- 7.Khomami, Nadia. Cindy Sherman: 'Little girls play dress-up – but I was always trying to be a monster instead of a fairy'. The Guardian. 2024-07-08. 0261-3077.
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