Resplendent imagery evoking far-flung climes and culture: visiting on a dreary winter’s day will warm any sun-starved soul ...
Discover new artists and explore a rich period of Brazilian art history in our latest exhibition, ‘Brasil! Brasil! The Birth ...
Brazil’s year-old Museu de Arte was jammed with granfinos (upper-crusters). Outside in the warm spring rain, hundreds more art lovers queued up, patiently awaiting their turn. It was the opening ...
The cultures of the enslaved Africans and the indigenous Brazilians contributed to the art of capoeira, with a reflection that makes up contemporary Brazil. Video by Zakee Kuduro-Thomas Executive ...
Lined with lush foliage and warm wood walls, the entryway is filled with lounge seating and open-air library shelves stocked with Brazilian books on art and literature. This artistic overtone ...
The first U.S. artist ever commissioned by a South American country to decorate public buildings, he had done two murals for Brazil’s massive National Library. They were unveiled last week ...
Take a look at some pieces by Lasar Segall, courtesy of the museum in his name in São Paulo. (JTA) — Brazilian modernism is widely agreed to have kicked off 100 years ago, at the Modern Art ...
The book’s rich critical analysis of race, identity and visual culture provides a comprehensive and nuanced view of Brazilian art and society in the first half of the 20th century.” ...
As Brazil celebrates 200 years of independence, we survey the past two centuries of Brazilian art, the museums and artists that have shaped its legacy and the political forces influencing its future.
Brazil is well known as the home of the dance-like martial art capoeira, but its roots in fact lie across the Atlantic. In Angola, one man is trying to resurrect an older style to help people ...