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Cuban Posters of OSPAAAL 1960-1980, at ZDB

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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X-Ray of a Photographic Practice

The exhibition Raio X de uma prática fotográfica (X-ray of a photographic practice) approaches the role of architectural photography and the way Fernando Guerra, founder of FG+SG, develops it. His studio, with around fifteen years of age, has followed the growing recognition of Portuguese architecture,...

The exhibition Raio X de uma p...

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Making sense of disperse assets

These last two or three decades city museums have occupied a major space among the museology debate. Archives, assets and estate are shown according to the identity of a place, as the remaining pieces of a collective memory. The Museum of Lisbon is one of...

These last two or three decade...

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Houses with History

Houses and buildings are something that have always mesmerized me. They tell stories and express their traditions and customs, even if they resemble to be motionless for us at all times. Filled with magic, they hold something mysterious inside.In recent years I have visited a...

Houses and buildings are somet...

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Bons Sons 2017

Photos: Ricardo Dias.These are beautiful days, those lived in Cem Soldos, from August 11 to August 14.I had never been there before.But when I reached the village, on the festival’s first day, the clock would probably be close to 7 pm and then some. The...

Photos: Ricardo Dias.These...

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The Sweet and Shy Madonna

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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Carmona e Costa Foundation/AICA Prizes

The Carmona e Costa Foundation and the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) announced last week the Prize for Art and Architecture Critic and Essay. The first prize was given to Maria Filomena Molder for her work Rebuçados Venezianos [Venetian Candies], published by Relógio d’Água...

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Travassos – life is a simple mess

Images: Travassos.Inextricable elements – Jazz em Agosto with extra-concert activities and Jazz em Agosto with Travassos. Life is a simple mess, to be released on August 4th, right after the show that puts together Larry Ochs with The Fictive Five. A book that, despite having in music its...

Images: Travassos.Inextric...

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