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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 […]
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 […]
As many of you know, 1755 was a rough year for Lisbon. LisbonQuake is a new multisensory, multidisciplinary (art, science, history, architecture, and everything in between) exhibit that hit town in April, and here's what its organizers say: "In Lisbon's long history, there is - unsurprisingly - one moment in particular that fascinates, intrigues and […]
Here's what organizers MAAT say about Traverser la nuit (aka "Crossing the night"): "On the occasion of the Portugal-France Season 2022, MAAT is presenting a broad overview of Antoine de Galbert’s personal collection in Portugal for the first time. ...Arranged in a way that represents the passage from dawn to dusk, from blindness and disorientation […]
From the organizers: "The exhibition Abstract, White, Toxic and Volatile, the title of a 1997 piece, is the first major exhibition to be held after Julião Sarmento's death, bringing together a very significant set of works that marked his career and whose selection resulted from close collaboration between the artist and the exhibition curator, Catherine […]
From the Gublenkian, organizers of, among other things, a weird, summer-long video cycle inside a shipping container in their garden (and elsewhere): "With the CAM building (aka Centro de Arte Moderna) remaining closed for renovations, we are continuing in our efforts to present art beyond the walls of the Foundation, extending it to the entire […]
A century after the last big pandemic and world war, the Pimenta Palace branch of Museu de Lisboa presents 'Os Loucos Anos 20 em Lisboa.' Here's what they say about it: "It was a time of transformations of customs and mentalities, a time of cosmopolitanism and modernity, of social and individual affirmation. True to its […]
From ZDB, the organizers of this one: "Dear friend, watch with your own eyes an event that will mankind the workers with the jurisperts, all for the 'Future without hands,' in a new set of works by Pedro Henriques. Objects that appear between standing sculpture, intelligent painting, and tactile will. Images-objects that are fugitive from […]
From the organizers: "The Lisbon City Council, together with the Santo António Parish Council, EGEAC, and the National Museum of Theater and Dance, offers the city a diverse cultural program of shows, exhibitions, film sessions, gatherings, and other cultural activities to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Parque Mayer. Eclectic, Lisbon's biggest entertainment and culture center […]
One of the country's biggest banks invites you to one of the city's most central squares for two weeks of free evening concerts and performances by some of the country's most renowned dancers, singers, orchestras, and symphonies — under the night sky and free of charge. View the full program here. FREE ENTRY.* *On a […]
Here's what organizers the Museu de Lisboa's Pimenta Palace say about this exhibit honoring the man behind some of Lisbon's most iconic pieces of both art and history, some two centuries after his death: "It is impossible to dissociate the figure of Joaquim Machado de Castro from the equestrian statue of King José which still […]
This July, cultural association Embuscada and friends invite you to the IRREVERENTE (aka, "irreverent") - International Improv Festival of Lisbon for five days of theater, dance, music, creative writing shows, workshops, lectures, roundtables, and general improvised fun with the participation of 14 different countries. Full program, tickets, and more info here.
From the organizers of this semi-new kid on some of Lisbon's oldes blocks: "Welcome to the first edition of Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Festival. Cinalfama wants to be a moment of encounter, a starting point for new audiences, it wants to r(e)discover and celebrate Alfama, a place for Portuguese and other cultures' cinematographic explorations that […]
The 38th edition of Jazz em Agosto hits the Gulbenkian this weekend, and here's some of what the museum's deputy and artistic directors José Pinto and Rui Neves say about it: "Chicago – New York – Lisboa. The association of music scenes and sounds with specific cities and regions does not happen by chance. Music […]
From the organizers: "Summer is just around the corner and with it comes one of the most important dates of national electronic music, after 3 years, the new season of Brunch -In The Park Lisboa! The event that turns your Sundays into a great party for the whole family that combines the best artists of […]
Here's what the organizers of this one say about this dude with more than just a cool name: "Veteran Tó Trips has a vast experience with a career that began in rock, led to the celebrated Dead Combo and in more recent times also manifested itself in Club Makumba. But in parallel, Trips has also […]
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