ATHENS — “Sea, sun and sex with some Greek columns in the background,” art director Poka Yio said. Athens Biennale. He was outlining the Greek government’s tourism campaigns in the 2000s as he took a visitor around an old shopping mall that was one of the venues for the 2021 edition. He said part of …
ATHENS — On the hottest day of Greece’s record-breaking heatwave, when temperatures rose to 111 degrees Fahrenheit in Athens and bushfires choked the air, Eleni Myrivili stopped hanging laundry on her roof behind the Acropolis because she couldn’t breathe from the heat. “I could only take short, burning breaths,” he said, remembering that the ash …
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