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MNAC’s diary on lockdown

The lockdown has been lifted but caution advises to remain at home. There’s progressively more movement outside and the cultural system is carefully opening its doors while struggling to absorb new forms of functioning with its cultural equipment.In this sense, even though the sense of...

The lockdown has been lifted b...

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4th week of BoCA Online

BoCA remains as the reference for the Portuguese performing arts, with a regular programme that goes beyond the biennial format. If for some sectors this COVID-19 pandemic represented a turmoil in their activities, in the cultural field there was swiftness and willingness to introduce new...

BoCA remains as the reference ...

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Semente Exterminadora, by Pedro Neves Marques

More and more theories have been published reflecting on the origins of epidemics and pandemics and their relations to the destruction of the several ecosystems that inhabit our planet. From those theories, speculations, distortions, and conspiracies arise, populating our imagination and creating new myths, legends...

More and more theories have be...

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Monitor’s Viewing Room

The global crisis forced by the COVID-19 pandemic either pushed the markets for new commerce and marketing practices or forced them into a broader presence in the digital world. The art market is no exception, even though, in this case, some peculiarities must be addressed...

The global crisis forced by th...

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Fundação D. Luís I online programme

During the self-imposed or the mandatory lockdown due to this pandemic that is insidiously propagating itself without restraint, the contact with the arts and the ideas’ world demands new forms of mediation and access. The digital has, thus, become the predominant way of engaging with...

During the self-imposed or the...

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Things Founded in Silence

The silence has been a cause for reflection among many authors and artists. Able to summon a creative and meditative spirit, silence is synonymous with interiority, peace, consolation, but also melancholy and solitude. Also, it is a vote, a political position, a manifestation that, albeit...

The silence has been a cause f...

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JUSTMAD 2020

With the participation of 50 exhibition spaces and galleries from eight different countries, helmed by artistic director, Semíramis González, JUSTMAD, now in its eleventh edition, sets itself upon the themes of sustainability, the environment and feminism. The theme of Feminism is central to this year´s...

With the participation of 50 e...

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Umbigo @ ARCOmadrid 2020

Now for the third consecutive year, Umbigo once again shall be present at ARCOmadrid with its own booth.Following suit of the previous two years, in which the booth was host to works by artists Jorge Santos, Rita Gaspar Vieira, and Nuno Sousa Vieira, this year...

Now for the third consecutive ...

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