Brazil Photos: Alice Brill & the History of Brazilian Photography |
For about a dozen years beginning in 1948, Alice Brill focused her multifaceted artistic talents on photography. Many of her images depict her adopted hometown of São Paulo – its architecture, laborers, neighborhoods and monuments – during the 1950s. Her travels took her to Bahia, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais and beyond.
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Oficina Brennand: Recife’s Erotic Pagan Temple |
Tourists swarm Rio de Janeiro’s iconic hilltop Christ statue and Manaus’ magnificent opera house. By contrast Recife’s big “can’t miss” attraction is often, well, missed by visitors to the state capital of Pernambuco. For those who catch a cab for the 15 kilometer ride to the Várzea district on the outskirts of town, the Oficina Brennand provides a new meaning for the term living museum. Like sex and death, Francisco Brennand’s sometimes monstrous ceramic sculptures, always pregnant with life, both attract and repel – but never fail to fascinate.
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Brazilian Literature: Lost Without Translation |
The original cast of the comedy program Saturday Night Live were called the Not Ready for Primetime Players. Here are some Brazilian writers ripe for translation.
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Amazon Film: Amazonas Film Festival |
Near the muddy waters of the Amazon River, with main events in the city's famous opera house, the Amazonas Film Festival offers a full week-long schedule which includes not only new feature films but short documentaries, videos and workshops.
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Brazilian Film Review: Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures |
When Brazilian cinema goes searching for its soul, it does not stop in Rio de Janeiro or the rest of the globalized southeast. It heads to the interior, to the Northeast, to the Sertão. The most recent example is Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures. Here’s a review by Tom Moore.
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Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art: The Making of the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection |
Since 1993 the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art (MAM Rio) has been treating visitors to exhibitions drawn from a permanent loan of nearly 6,000 works of Brazilian modern and contemporary art from the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, perennially listed among the world’s top 200 collections by ARTnews magazine. Here’s the story of how Chateaubriand put it together.
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| Gil Vicente (Rorschach Self-Portrait: Joâo Câmara and I) |
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