The exhibition Uma pedra, um ser is inspired by the artist Pedro Vaz's journey into the Amazon forests, especially the gold trail trodden by enslaved people and originally the land of indigenous tribes....
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As opposed to history, memory is a past in contention for a future. The immaterial wealth we identify with and strive to preserve proves what kind of society we want to build, our utopia. However, what happens to the past utopias that have been vanquished?...
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Patti Smith and the Soundwalk Collective (Stephan Crasneanscki and Simone Merli) decided to pay tribute to the poets Arthur Rimbaud, Antonin Arnaud and René Daumal with Perfect Vision, a project on three successive records: Mummer Love, The Peyote Dance and Peradam, respectively....
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The western roots of magic, connected to nature and unwritten wisdom, can be traced back to medieval times. Medicinal knowledge merged with magical interventions to fend off demons and evil spirits, and endures today in what we call superstition....
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The two exhibitions now showing at Appleton, in Alvalade, until March 7, draw, seemingly without any coordination, upon the same two concepts: faith as part of human nature and the surveillance technology....
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The 1970s and 1980s LGBT underground world has been a subject of pop culture in recent years. Series, films, books and records have all emphasised the idea of an ostracised community inhabiting a certain worldview, with its own codes and political struggles surrounding that socialisation....
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Brotéria launched an exhibition called Colosso in November. It was split into three moments - um clarão, uma cratera, a viagem -, each with its own opening date and viewing (respectively from November 25 to December 12, from December 16 to December 30, from January...
Brotéria launched an exhibiti...
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Fac-símile, Rita Ferreira's new exhibition, held at Galeria 3+1 Arte Contemporânea and open until January 6, previews itself on the introductory text, containing only the works' titles and the artist's curriculum vitae. The intention is to establish the idea of works without further discourse, not...
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Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar opened its doors to the public in 2013 with the exhibition Em torno do acervo, a first foray into the artist's extensive body of work. Right from the start, the venue itself was an invitation, due to its breadth and natural light,...
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This is not a comprehensive tour, but a sample. Ana Cardoso's one-room exhibition, a finalist for the EDP Foundation New Artists prize at MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, the context behind the exhibition, is a trailer for all that is to come....
This is not a comprehensive to...
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