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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 […]
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 […]
The hosts of Jogos Cruzados: Viagens entre Oriente e Ocidente at the MNAA say this: "Based on one of the world's largest private collections of board games, this exhibition will address the migration and exchange of games between East and West. It will focus on this type of Asian production for the European market, carried […]
From the organizers: "Celebrating the human heritage in its surroundings, The Lisbon Museum's Roman Theatre brings together the works by 36 artists in its temporary exhibition, the outcome of a collaborative process with a community of artists who relate and cooperate next to this monument - the oldest stage in Portugal. This is a territory […]
Here's what the organizers, aka Lisbon's go-to for many, many things culture, aka the EGEAC, say about the last month of summer in Lisbon, aka "Com'Out Lisbon: A month of free and open-air culture": "The Lisboa na Rua program (Com'Out Lisbon) organized by EGEAC, is back, with free access to open-air cultural events. Between August […]
Lisbon-born-and-raised painter, world traveler, and generally good dude David Arranhado has been residing in Brazil since before the pandemic. Yet he tends to come back to the city that made him once a year or so (on average) to catch up with its residents, embrace its energy, and gift it with an always refreshingly impressive […]
The city's biggest annual book fair returns to Parque Eduardo VII for its 92d edition on August 25th, bringing with it two weeks of literary goodness of every variety. Read all you need to know here. FREE ENTRY. Here's the opening day (with the president). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYip__DFSPE
Fun facts: -Vilar de Mouros is a 10.38 km² civil parish on the banks of the Coura river in the municipality of Caminha, Portugal,; -its population in 2011 was 753; -it's home to the oldest rock festival in Portugal; -this year, said festival welcomes Iggy Pop, Placebo, Bauhaus, Suede, Wolfmother, Gary Numan, The Legendary Tigerman, […]
Here's what organizers Museu da Água say about this Saturday morning walking tour: "Guided tour of 941 meters through the Alcântara Valley Crossing also known as the Passeio dos Arcos. Come and learn about the importance that this hydraulic infrastructure, built in the XVIII century, had for the growth and development of the city of […]
Here's what one of the most magical places on the outskirts of town — aka Zirkus Mond Lisboa — say about this Saturday afternoon: "We are back with another Open Tent, an event for the curious and circus lovers. A social gathering to share circus knowledge and techniques. Bring your own circus gear and try […]
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