Most museums in Lisbon re-opened April 5, and theaters, cinemas, and live music venues on April 19. Read more here. NOTE: Hours are changing constantly and shows still get cancelled, so please check with the organizers.
Alexandre Farto, better known locally and internationally as Vhils, has been doing a lot of international work recently in places like Paris, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Macao, Mexico City, LA, and even Cincinnati. em>Prisma at MAAT, however, is Farto's foray into the realm of video. In it, the artist presents "images of everyday life" in […]
Here's what curator Isabel Calado says about the new, appropriately-for-the-times tiled photography exhibit ZOOM IN ZOOM OUT at MNAC: "We already know that all images are representations, and always have been. This means that none of them is reality and, at the same time, perhaps more subtly, that all of them maintain a tension with […]
Here's what the organizers of this little visual gem say: "In addition to having built an incredible trajectory in cinema, Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) was also a photographer. Before becoming one of the most influential directors of all time, the director worked for Look magazine, a publication in New York, where he built a fascinating photographic […]
Thorugh May, The National Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition Coleção de Maria Eugénia and Francisco Garcia, two renowned Portuguese art collectors, which includes dozens of paintings, drawings, and engravings by (mostly) Portuguese artists from the 1950s to the 1970s. The organizers add: "Collecting for pleasure and friendship, this is an exhibition that evokes […]
Europa Oxalá at the Gulbenkian presents work by 21 artists with backgrounds in former colonies in Africa such as Angola, Congo, Benin, Guinea, Algeria, and Madagascar. The organizers add: "Born and raised in a post-colonial context, these are artists who became essential in European contemporary art, proposing a reflection on their inheritance, their memory, and […]
Here's what curator André Tavares says about the new architecture exhibit at CCB: "Architects imagine things that don’t exist. This exhibition shows the paths of this invention, needed new ideas, and, also, the will of a new generation to build better. It presents five architecture studios — rar.studio, fala, Diogo Aguiar Studio, Ponto Atelier, Barão-Hutter […]
Here's what MNAC curator Maria Aires Silveira says about this centuries-spanning exhibit there: "The PEOPLE LANDSCAPES: NARRATIVES OF THE MNAC COLLECTION (1855-1920) exhibition deals with the aesthetics of the landscape, in dialogue with the presence and human intervention in nature. The young students of the Academies of Fine Arts, in the 1850s, took nature and […]
Hertzian waves, digital circuits, dialogues between artists, designers, poets and landscape architects, and interludes made of sounds and music are what, according to the organizers, make up the Sound It: Rádio Antecâmara exhibit at the CCB's Garagem Sul. Here's what curators Alessia Allegri and Pedro Campos Costa add: "Around the performative and inhabited space of […]
It's no secret that Portuguese legend Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro was kind of a foodie. Here's what the organizers of this gluttonous exhibit at the museum that holds his name add: "His multifaceted work mirrors his taste for sitting at the table to enjoy fine gastronomy. But it also provides a record of diet, cookery, eating […]
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