Paula Rego (1935-2022)
Umbigo is deeply saddened by Paula Rego’s death at 87, perhaps one of the biggest names in Portuguese painting to be acknowledged worldwide....
Umbigo is deeply saddened by P...
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The X edition of Jardins Efémeros
"The beginning is uncertainty. The end is fascination" – this is the motto that opens the editorial or curatorial concept of the programme for Jardins Efémeros’22....
"The beginning is uncertainty....
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In Conversation with Theodore Ereira-Guyer
Theodore Ereira-Guyer has his first solo exhibition, Thicket, with Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery. From an English mother and Portuguese father, we exchange experiences between the two cities when I let him into my meeting room....
Theodore Ereira-Guyer has his ...
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In the age of photographic immediacy: social media as a vehicle for building museum narratives
The evolution of art, culture and social dynamics over the last decades is associated with the emergence of new technologies. The new millennium brought the explosion of the web and the online has become something dynamic, fast, easy to access, low-cost and fully capable of...
The evolution of art, culture ...
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Galeria Energia: Interview with Filipa Ramos, Artistic Director of Porto’s Department of Contemporary Art
Galeria Energia is the new programming of Galeria Municipal do Porto, with art, music, nature and science in several encounters. A cycle of concerts, debates and walks, with four themes: Ciência é Arte, Concertos Comentados, Imaginários and Pastos e Pastos, where guests from different areas...
Galeria Energia is the new pro...
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Emotional Landscapes by Ragnar Kjartansson at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum
I saw Ragnar Kjartansson’s exhibition a week ago. I don’t usually write a review so long after seeing an exhibition. But circumstances dictate this. I’m afraid I can’t capture the momentary excitement when writing about a good exhibition one has just seen - this exercise...
I saw Ragnar Kjartansson’s e...
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Em memória de mim: Gisela Casimiro at Armário
Armário will travel. Until June 2023, Armário will be in four Portuguese cities. The first is Coimbra, at Colégio das Artes, in an installation by Gisela Casimiro, with music by Odete....
Armário will travel. Until Ju...
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through an affective journey of memory-images Finding a Way: Simone Fattal’s solo show at the Whitechapel Gallery
Going back home has commonly been associated with a positive glimpse into the future. "Dream" would probably not be the best way to describe it as the insisting idea of it inevitably happening would quickly pierce through any layers of enchantment or imagination. It is...
Going back home has commonly b...
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Sara & André – O Colecionador de Belas Artes at Galeria Quadrum
At Galeria Quadrum we can visit Sara & André’s latest project, O Colecionador de Belas Artes. The artist duo continues the work in circuit, dialoguing with the art system and its actors....
At Galeria Quadrum we can visi...
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Museu das Obsessões: For the eyes that never blink by Christian Andersson and Ensaio sobre a Gordura by Ana de Almeida
Our relation to the real is only a mental equation about what is laid out in front of us, something that is impossible to merely see. The wild eye, mentioned in the passage that I use as a preamble to this piece, is entirely utopian....
Our relation to the real is on...
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