All Crossroads Lead to Athens

ATHENS - In the abandoned building that once housed the Athens Stock Exchange, artist Teo is shuffling between the Fool, the Magician and the Devil in a Tarot card reading to divine the fate of the crippled Greek nation. Above his head, a flickering electronic installation depicts share prices from 2007 near the market?s euro-era peak, before six years of recession and successive bailouts wiped about 48 billion euros ($65 billion) off the economy. Temporary home to the Athens Biennale arts exhibition, the disused trading floor has become a mausoleum of former wealth and a hotbed of conjecture. Economists and artists have come together to tackle the question on all Greek minds: now what?

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