The aversion to faeces is an existential condition. The sapient civilized being rejects, or hardly accepts, the idea that the same organism which produces the beautiful things of the extensive historical arch of human endeavours happens to be the very same organism that regurgitates, defecates,...
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Lisbon has presented the collections of some of the most renowned names of the national fashion realm, in the 49th edition of Moda Lisboa. The beauty of Pavilhão Carlos Lopes was the setting chosen to give visibility to what the author and commercial brands have...
Lisbon has presented the colle...
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A new gallery is about to open in Alvalade on October 13th and, with that, the reassurance that Lisbon is now opening its doors to art and artistic production, aiming to amass new outlooks, horizons and some other forms to understand art and the world....
A new gallery is about to open...
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Portugal has a long history in what concerns ceramics. The countless tiles that cover homes and patrimony in Lisbon, as well as the decorative arts which reveal what was the main taste of the Portuguese nobles and elite, are a testimony to that. A taste...
Portugal has a long history in...
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The current local election campaign prompts a period of reflection to reckon, among other things, the sort of image that parties and political candidates rely on to establish communication with citizens. Political billboards emerge one after the other, with worn-out slogans, a barely tolerable printing...
The current local election cam...
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Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (The National Museum of Ancient Art – MNAA) has been welcoming in recent times a series of temporary exhibitions celebrated through partnerships with foreign museums. It happened in the past with Prado Museum, which materialized the wonderful exhibition: Rubens, Brueghel,...
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We are living the hypermodernity. Or, alternatively, we are living the post-contemporary era. The fluidity of time and space takes us through an automatic vortex, one that the bodies try to follow in an uncritical way, all to no avail.Gilles Lipovetsky coined the expression The...
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Portugal occasionally holds that sort of exhibitions which fall into the realm of interculturalism and migrate from one side of the world to be displayed right here. Fundação Oriente has gone the extra mile to bring a fair share of eastern culture so that the...
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Photos: António Jorge Silva.The exhibition of Fernanda Fragateiro is both an exercise of art and architecture, an ambiguity which can be admired with the same degree of admiration in names like Gordon Matta-Clark or Donald Judd.Space has always been the artist’s main concern and medium:...
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Photos: Francisco Ferreira.The exhibition Tudo o que é profundo ama a máscara [Whatever is profound loves the mask] aims to question the viewer about the ontic trait of the mask. And studying this ontology of the mask is to, necessarily, understand its bewildering essence, of...
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