Any Caucasian, heterosexual individual, living in a wealthy country, would feel their conscience hanging heavy when confronted with the proposals of Documenta 14. “This Documenta is not as ‘light’ as the previous, in which one could feel the grandeur and the glamour entangled in a...
Any Caucasian, heterosexual in...
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The festival of contemporary art Bairro das Artes [Art District] is on its 8th edition and tries to promote contemporary art events that are taking place along the 7th hill of Lisbon, somewhere between Rato and Cais do Sodré.At 21 September an eclectic program may...
The festival of contemporary a...
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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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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...
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There’s something about Azores that welcomes deep insight. The loneliness and the omnipresence of elements in everyday tasks gives a mystic aura to this archipelago’s places. The clouds are always present, the wind and humidity too; the green color scatters through vast vales with the...
There’s something about Azor...
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If going to the village of Crato doesn’t amount to anything more than music shows that would already make little or no sense in the last decade of the past century, then forget it, this festival is not for you, nor the GPS will help...
If going to the village of Cra...
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It was once a charcoal and a tavern. Quite close to the House Museum of Amália Rodrigues and, yet, the artistic expressions exhibited at the number 432 of Rua de São Bento are much more stimulating and insightful. Zaratan - Arte Contemporânea has been giving...
It was once a charcoal and a t...
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The Association Porta33 inaugurates the exhibition chão de orações [pavement of prayers] by the artist Daniel Vasconcelos Melim, in a partnership with Mudas Museum.The artist explores the spiritual relationship between art and life. The holism mentioned in the curatorial text alludes to that same totality,...
The Association Porta33 inaugu...
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The Lisbon International and Annual Video Art Festival, commonly known as FUSO, merges its program with the Lisbon, Ibero-American Capital of Culture 2017.A vast selection of videos may be seen in different terraces and gardens of Lisbon, with the past and the present as themes...
The Lisbon International and A...
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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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