Frissiras Museum

This guide to the Frissiras Museum in Athens follows Vlassis Frissiras, an Athens lawyer who never painted a stroke himself but built a collection of four thousand works around one strict rule he set in 1978: every piece had to depict the human body. You'll hear how he first turned to young Greek artists, then in the 1990s widened his eye toward Europe, bringing in names like David Hockney and Frank Auerbach. The guide also traces the twin Plaka houses themselves, one standing since 1860 and its neighbor raised later by the architect Ernst Ziller.