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The mission of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) is to disseminate information about Hellenic civilization throughout the United States and Canada. By cooperating with universities, colleges and art institutions in Greece and throughout America, the Onassis Foundation (USA) promotes bilateral cultural relations.
Onassis Cultural Center
In carrying out the mission of the Onassis Foundation (USA), the Onassis Cultural Center, opened in Fall 2000, is the venue for presenting cultural and artistic activities concerning ancient, Byzantine and modern Hellenic civilization. Invited participants may be Greeks and non-Greeks inspired by Hellenism. Activities include art exhibitions, theatrical and dance performances, musical events, lectures, poetry readings and film screenings. Following their presentation at the Onassis Cultural Center, these activities may tour other cultural and art institutions in the United States and Canada.
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Photo: Exhibition Athens - Sparta, December 6, 2006 - May 12, 2007, © Joe Coscia Jr.
University Seminars Program
The University Seminars Program of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) sponsors eminent visiting scholars from abroad and the U.S.A. to hold weekly seminars and give lectures at North and South American university campuses. The scholars’ topics focus on subjects related to Hellenic culture, history and the arts, such as modern, Byzantine and ancient history, political thought in Greece and the Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries, modern Greek literature (prose, poetry), archaeology, philosophy, painting, sculpture, theater, cinema, dance, music, ancient Greek drama, theology, law, economy and finance.
The Program promotes the interaction and exchange of scholarly views between the visiting scholar, the students and the hosting faculty. The hosting institutions organize the visiting scholar’s itinerary by planning lectures, seminars and other academic activities that will enhance the success of the visit and ensure high student attendance.
What's New
CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE ATRIUM
Perpetual Transitions
by Kalliopi Lemos
A fleet of 15 white plaster “boats” hover in mid-air over a fountain, bearing a metaphorical cargo of birth, migration and change, as the Onassis Cultural Center presents Perpetual Transitions, the first New York exhibition of artwork by the contemporary Greek sculptor Kalliopi Lemos. The site-specific installation, created for the Atrium of Olympic Tower at 645 Fifth Avenue (between 51st and 52nd Streets), will be on view to the public free of charge from Wednesday, July 1, 2009.
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Worshiping Women:
Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens
Will be presented at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece
July 2009 - November 2009
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