Category: Arts & Culture

Brazilian art is featured on the iconic billboards of Times Square in a campaign to promote the exhibition “Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil,” which will be on display at MoMA until June 3. This is the first solo exhibition of the Brazilian artist in the United States. For more information, visit: http://press.moma.org/2017/07/tarsila-do-amaral/

Part of Wakanda, the imaginary kingdom presented in the new Marvel Comics film Black Panther, truly exists: the Iguaçu Falls, one of the seven natural wonders of the world, located in the state of Paraná. The imposing plateaus and 275 waterfalls of Iguaçu, part of the largest Iguaçu National Park, have been used as a…

The Brazilian samba school Beija-Flor de Nilópolis is the champion of the 2018 Rio de Janeiro Carnival, one of the largest and most popular celebrations in the world. Presented by singer Neguinho da Beija-Flor, the samba-enredo “Monstruoso é Aquele Que Não Sabe Amar” drew a parallel between Mary Shelley’s horror romance “Frankenstein,” which celebrates its…

About 200,000 people in 63 blocks were present to celebrate with the energy of the Saturday blocks in Rio de Janeiro. The number exploded when Sunday arrived. There were 850,000 revelers in the streets following 47 blocks. Notably, among these numbers, 500,000 revelers came just to see the Bloco da Preta, which brought with it…

This is the first exhibition to explore the innovative contributions to contemporary art by Latin American and Latina artists during a period of extraordinary conceptual and aesthetic experimentation. Featuring over 120 artists from 15 countries, Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 focuses on the use of the female body for political and social critique and…

The Carnival in New Orleans is the most famous in the United States, known as Mardi Gras (a French term meaning Fat Tuesday). This movement began in Louisiana around 1699 – the year the first documentation of this event occurred – an initiative of French colonizers. Throughout Mardi Gras, more than 50 groups hold their…

Lollapalooza Brazil takes place on March 23, 24, and 25 at the Interlagos Autodrome in São Paulo, and this will be the 5th consecutive time the festival is held in Brazil. With the festival just around the corner, it’s time to start getting to know the lineup, which features many new bands, and avoid missing…

There was no denying that once one of the main floats of Rio’s Carnival featured a vampire in a presidential sash and a suit made of dollar bills, or when a giant rat pulled another allegory depicting the headquarters of Petrobras, Brazil’s corrupt oil entity, as a favela, or when the dancers portrayed government officials…

The last school to enter the avenue lifted the spirits of the audience present who did not go home, and the crowd shouted non-stop even before entering the avenue: “It’s the champion!” The issues of unemployment, corruption, theft, poor investment in education, abandonment of children, and health were highlighted in the samba theme “The monster…

Comfort and modernity are welcome in the CS Club Fall / Winter 2018. The hottest trends of the season make the wardrobe of the modern woman more elegant and practical, through essential items that promise to satisfy all styles. Leathers in green and lead tones provoke and stand out in the military line. Boots, slippers,…