Florianópolis Wins UN Zero-Waste Praise, Treats 13% of Its Food Waste
Florianópolis treats just 13% of its food waste as it pursues a 90% target by 2030. Inside the UN-praised Florianópolis...
July 9, 2026Section
Art and Culture
Art and Culture News in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil
Dominican Mining Is Erasing the Caribbean’s Greatest Cave Art
Of 24 confirmed Pomier caves near San Cristóbal, 16 have been harmed by mining and quarrying, damaging some of the...
July 9, 2026
Colombia Called Off the Hippo Cull. Nobody Else Will Take Them.
Colombia's new environment minister ruled out culling the Escobar hippos, leaving a herd of 200-plus growing fast as seven countries...
July 9, 2026
Rio’s Great National Art Museum Is Coming Back to Life
Rio's National Museum of Fine Arts, shut since 2020, plans a full reopening at the end of 2026, and one...
July 8, 2026
An Artist Made a Whole Rio Show From Honey, Wax and Bees
See PRO-POLIS, a free Rio art exhibition of about twenty works made from honey, beeswax and propolis by artist Ricardo...
July 8, 2026
A Cameroonian Art Star Takes Over São Paulo’s Oldest Museum
Knockout, the first Brazilian solo show by Cameroon's Pascale Marthine Tayou, fills seven Pinacoteca rooms. See the contemporary art survey...
July 8, 2026
Bogotá Is Quietly Becoming a World Coffee Capital
Bogotá's specialty coffee scene is booming, and the city will host a major global coffee event in 2027. Here is...
July 8, 2026
A Mexican Master Takes Over São Paulo’s Most Famous Museum
MASP shows a major art retrospective of Mexican artist Damian Ortega, titled matéria e energia, gathering over thirty years of...
July 8, 2026
Ancient Weaving From the Argentine Chaco Lands in São Paulo
MASP in São Paulo shows around 30 works of Wichí textile art by Claudia Alarcón and the Silät collective, woven...
July 8, 2026