ABSTRACT
When I was first asked by the Benaki Museum director, Professor Angelos Delivorrias, to organize an exhibition dedicated to the Theotokos, the Mother of God, I was entering terra incognita.1 At the time, I assumed that organizing an exhibition would be like writing a Ph.D. thesis. It did not take me long to realize that it was far more difficult and complicated than I had anticipated. In a thesis, the struggles are with yourself, the research, the ideas and points you want to make and, above all, with the supervisor. In an exhibition, the struggle is with yourself, the research needed, the points you want to raise, your ideas on how to organize the exhibition and how to display its concept and sections. There are battles with your wish list, which has to contain at least three times more objects than needed, with turning the wish list into a loans list, with the hosting institution, with the lenders, with the contributors to the exhibition catalogue, and with the sponsors.
