The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) - Museu do Chiado will undergo expansion works, to duplicate the areas of...
The Porto Photography Biennial will nominate 5 emerging artists from the field of photography residing in Portugal to join the European Futures communityin 2023. The selected artists will benefit from an international exchange through a network of institutions, curators, artists and audiences, enhancing visibility and new professional opportunities. Bienal Fotografia do Porto is one of the 18 members of FUTURES.
"Pintura (Windows)", from around 1916, by Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (1887-1918), and "A las Cinco en Punto de la Tarde (homage to Garcia Llorca)", from 1960, by Manuel D'Assumpção ( 1926-1969), are paintings that will "enrich in a very significant way" the MNAC-MC collection, said the person in charge. Learn more here.
The 21st edition of Doclisboa will take place between the 19th and 29th of October 2023. Film submissions for this edition can be made between the 15th of January and the 31st of May 2023.National and international films, produced from September 2022, of any duration, may be submitted.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art acquired its first NFT, a work entitledFinal Transformation #2 (2022) by artistLynn Hershman Leeson. Final Transformation #2 is an NFT from a clip from Leeson's 1997 film,Conceive Ada, starring Tilda Swinton as Victorian mathematician Ada Lovelace. The title is derived from Swinton's last line in the film.
With his first exhibition in New York, the artist brings an immersive soundscape from November 4th of this year until January 7th, 2024. Portuguese artist Alexandre Estrela will present the exhibition “Flat Bells”, at the Museu de Arte Moderna (MoMA), in New York, between November this year and January 2024, announced the institution.
The UK government today ruled out returning the Parthenon friezes, on display at the British Museum in London, to Greece, in reaction to media reports that a deal was being finalised."I was very clear about this, I don't think they [the friezes] should return to Greece", defended the British Minister of Culture, Michele Donelan, in statements to the BBC station.
Louvre, the most popular museum in the world, with the most famous works, will continue to limit daily attendance in an attempt to provide participants with “a comfortable visit and guarantee optimal working conditions for the museum team”, according to the statement. release released by the institution last week.
The 91st anniversary of Teatro Rivoli will be celebrated from the 18th to the 22nd of January with the national premiere of “Mystery Sonatas/ for Rosa” by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker & Amandine Beyer/Rosas, Gli Incogniti; the celebration of 35 years of Teatro de Marionetas do Porto with “Como um carrossel”; the live act by the Brazilian duo Trypas Corassão; the concert by the quartet Máquina Magnetica da Sonoscopy; and the launch of the 10th volume of Cadernos do Rivoli.
Canadian artist Michael Snow, a towering figure in the world of avant-garde cinema, has died aged 94. His death was confirmed by the Jack Shainman Gallery, which represents him. Michael Snow is considered one of Canada's most important artists and one of the most influential avant-garde artists of the 20th century.
In view of the most recent results of sustained support from the Directorate-General for the Arts 2023-2026, which once again...
Cinemateca Portuguesa, in Lisbon, and Cinema Batalha, in Porto, are associated with this event, programming some sessions dedicated to Portuguese animation cinema.
In January, Underdogs opens its doors to two exhibitions that address contemporary themes linked to the complexity of the human condition. In the main space of the Gallery, the Portuguese collective Halfstudio explores the concept of the journey in its dimension as a process of realization. In the Cápsula space, Swiss artist Tobias Gutmann proposes an experience that challenges self-perception and questions our relationship with technology and artificial intelligence.
The painters Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992) and Bertina Lopes (1924-2012) will be represented in this major exhibition dedicated to women artists who marked abstractionism between the 1940s and 1970s, opening in London in February.