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Art + Culture - Brazil

Bahia, Brazil: largest popular religious festival in Salvador, Lavagem do Bonfim returns after two years

The biggest popular religious festival in Salvador, capital of Bahia, the Lavagem da Escadaria da Igreja do Bonfim, resumed...

After his success in Brazil, artist Gabriel Wickbold wants to expand internationally

Brasilia split in half, a new work by Gabriel Wickbold, was one of the...

Brazil: ArtRio 2022 returns to Marina da Glória in a 100% presential format

From Thursday, September 15, to Sunday, September 18, the ArtRio cultural fair returns to receive the public 100% in person at Marina da Glória...

Revolution in Haiti inspired black resistance amid Brazil’s independence

By Gabriel Araújo The uprising of the enslaved population, 231 years old, frightened the Brazilian elites, who feared a similar...

Brazil’s Gramado Film Festival: Brazilian cinema’s main event and...

In 1986, the Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences legally contested the design of the Kikito, the...

Brazil: Latin America’s biggest scientific event starts in Brasília

Brasília hosts, until next Saturday, July 30, the largest scientific event in Latin America,...

Brazil: Paraty hosts Art of the Word Festival’s third edition

After two years of absence due to the new coronavirus pandemic, the Commerce Social Service (Sesc) promotes the third edition of the Art of the Word Festival (Farpa) in Paraty on the Green Coast of...

Is the immersive Van Gogh and Portinari exhibition in Brazil a farce or a spectacle?

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Conservatives usually get in trouble, at least in the art world. In 1917, when attacking an exhibition by Anita Malfatti, who introduced modern art to Brazil, Monteiro Lobato wrote: "Let's be...

Brazil: São Paulo’s Fiesp hosts festival mixing art, creativity, and technology

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The connection between art, creativity, and technology is the basis of more than 230 works presented starting July 13...

Art as a cultural bridge: Brazil and Argentina, ever closer

By Celina Chatruc RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The images are immediately associated with Buenos Aires: they show the Floralis Generica, a sculpture donated to the city by the Argentine architect Eduardo Catalano and installed two...

Brazil: Moreira Salles Institute exhibits 260 photographs by Carioca Walter Firmo

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The iconic portraits of composers Pixinguinha and Cartola and singer Clementina de Jesus and beautiful images exalting the culture and the black Brazilian population, all produced by photographer Walter Firmo,...

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