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Brazilian Culture in New York City

Vik Muniz: Museum of Ashes

Tue-Sat, Oct 10-Nov 16, 2019
CHELSEA, NYC ~ Like a phoenix, the renowned Brazilian sculptor and photographer recreates objects lost in the Brazilian National Museum fire, from their own ashes at Sikkema Jenkins

Pia Camil: Here Comes the Sun

Friday, November 8, 2019
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ This Guggenheim 60th Anniversary commission by a Mexican artist is a wonderful performance based on Lygia Pape’s ‘Divisor’ (1969) that shines a bright light on people at the Guggenheim Museum

Tulipa Ruiz in New York City

Thursday, August 1, 2019
LINCOLN CENTER ~ The multi-talented, Latin Grammy-winning Brazilian singer-songwriter of MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) plays a free acoustic concert at the David Rubenstein Atrium

Alceu Valença

Saturday, July 27, 2019
CENTRAL PARK, NYC ~ One of the elders of MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) brings the sounds of Pernambuco in Northeast Brazil to Brasil SummerFest at Central Park SummerStage

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

The Austrian-Jewish writer was one of the great international writers of the 1930s. When Europe self-destructed, he saved himself through exile in Brazil, but never stood up to Fascism. Opened May 12. Now playing at Lincoln Center Cinemas in the Upper West Side, Fri, May 19, 2017.

Vik Muniz ‘Epistemes’ at Sikkema Jenkins & Co

PUBLIC ART
“Perfect Strangers” mosaics
(Q) (R) to 72nd Street
Upper East Side, Manhattan
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“Epistemes”
Vik goes abstract while staying true to his process in this solo show of his new “Handmade” series.
Sikkema Jenkins & Co
Chelsea, Manhattan
February 23 – April 1, 2017

Paulo Laport

EDELMAN ARTS, UPPER EAST SIDE, May 29-July 13, 2013 ~ Paulo Laport’s paintings are like a crystal ball. At a glance it’s just a piece of glass, but when you stop and look inside, images appear like magic.
#BRAZILIAN #ARTIST

Rodrigo Santoro

An interview with Rodrigo Santoro on his latest film, Heleno, a powerful human drama about the passion, decadence and destruction of Heleno de Freitas.

Heleno

A film about the passion, decadence and destruction of the first global sports star, Brazilian footballer Heleno de Freitas, opens December 7.