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Cahiers d’art 100 years exhibition at the Benaki Museum

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Cahiers d’art 100 years. Through the collections of the Benaki Museum

In corso14 ottobre 2026 – 24 gennaio 20279 €

Benaki objects shown beside their reproductions in the pages of Cahiers d’Art, with an immersive video installation by Natalia Papadopoulou.

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Red, yellow and green cases line the walls, in the flat colours of the square covers Cahiers d'Art wore in its early years. Each holds objects from the Benaki's collections, from Cycladic figurines and Persian ceramics to Coptic textiles and pre-Columbian pieces from Peru, beside miniature copies of the magazine pages that reproduced them.

Christian Zervos launched the journal in Paris in 1926, and this show, in a second-floor gallery on Koumbari Street, argues that Antonis Benakis collected on the same instinct. Some objects are on public view for the first time. In Natalia Papadopoulou's video After Images you watch pages and objects through a circular lens while Nikos Aliagas reads from Zervos's articles. So a modernist art journal gets narrated by the host of The Voice France.

It suits visitors who want the link between Greek collections and Paris modernism shown object by object. Exhibition tickets are €9, or €7 reduced, at tickets.benaki.org or on the day, and the museum stays open until midnight on Thursdays.

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  • The coloured wall cases

    Look for the red, yellow and green cases borrowed from the early covers, each pairing Benaki objects with miniature copies of the magazine pages that printed them.

  • After Images, Natalia Papadopoulou's video

    Journal pages and museum objects filmed through a circular lens, with Nikos Aliagas reading Zervos's articles over music by Dimitris Patsaros.

  • Nikolaos Mitsakis's school buildings

    Photographs and architectural drawings of school buildings by the Greek architect Nikolaos Mitsakis, shown alongside Ghika's sculptures and drawings.

  • Looms and instruments in the cases

    Traditional woven fabrics, weaving tools and folk musical instruments get the same coloured-case treatment as the Chinese porcelain and Byzantine icons.

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