Latest news and stories about art in Portugal for expats and residents.
Sculpture by artist Susana Piteira found damaged at Parque dos Poetas, in Oeiras.
Spanish artist Manuel Gómez Arce visited the University of Coimbra and connected it, in a painting, to the world of colour, music and, above all, folklore, a key inspiration in Naïf artworks.
With a career that began in the 80s, Manuel João Vieira, an artist of many lives, now has his first solo exhibition in a museum.
With “The Gehry Century”, Serralves showcases the work of the Toronto-born architect and reveals the complicity and shared projects with Álvaro Siza, who speaks to Expresso about their friendship and a mutual understanding regarding what constitutes quality in architecture.
Isabelino Coelho, one of the leading Portuguese Naïf artists, stands out for his difference by breaking away from Realism. He draws on imagery and is inspired by ancient art to bring his works to life.
The works of Emma Bianchini and Ernane Cortat are proof that painting can go beyond the canvas and extend onto the frame. Simple, yet rich, so that even children can recognise Noah's Ark.
The Galileo Museum project digitally reunites folios of Leonardo's documents that were separated at the end of the 16th century. A useful tool for researchers.
There is “life, movement and joy” in Porto's Ribeira. Amalia Fernandez de Cordoba fell in love with it and painted, with great colour, the rabelo boats carrying Port wine and the laundry hanging on the balconies of the houses.
The old basket makers of Vildemoinhos are evoked, similar to those seen in the painting The Flight into Egypt, which Grão Vasco created for the high altar of Viseu Cathedral, now a National Treasure at the Grão Vasco Museum.
The exhibition “O Azulejo em Portugal. Uma História em Aberto” has had its run extended until the 6th of June.
Art has the power to transform information into knowledge. It can demystify, simplify, and make things accessible. Translating COPD into a work of art is not only possible, it has happened.
The doors of ARCO, the Contemporary Art Fair, have now opened.
A look at hotels and various venues that feature art collections or artistic elements.
The Lisbon museum brings together works by Carlos Noronha Feio, João Paulo Feliciano, Mariana Caló, Francisco Queimadela, Sara & André, and Lourdes Castro alongside the universe of the Szenes-Vieira da Silva couple.
Without any scholarly pretensions, this exhibition is not a place of surprises, but rather of confirmations for those who know the painting of Júlio Pomar
The very first national museum — no matter what bureaucrats say —, the National Museum of Ancient Art has a long history of over 140 years, now revisited in an illustrated chronology.
Artist João Abel Manta, who created the 'graphic chronicle' of the 25th of April, will be cremated this Sunday.
Born from the collection of Armando Martins, the Lisbon-based MACAM has arrived. Between a renovated palace and a new building, it celebrates one year of uniting contemporary art with five-star hospitality. A luxury.
'Os Bêbados' (The Drunkards), a work that is part of a series of paintings by José Malhoa about the consequences of vices, was acquired by the State to be placed in the Abade de Baçal Museum in Bragança.
A suggestion made between friends led, after several adventures, to Christian Duerckheim entrusting part of the works he collected to Serralves for at least the next 15 years. They are now on display.
The museum reveals the valuable contemporary art collection deposited in Porto by the manager and art collector. A journey through the world's most recent history: religion, society, war, and vexation.
In this interview, artist José Pedro Croft discusses his latest exhibition, 'Reflexos, Enclaves, Desvios' (Reflections, Enclaves, Deviations), at the Centro Cultural de Belém. He explores his creative process, his transition from traditional materials like marble to industrial ones like iron and glass, and his reliance on the 'Artworks' factory for large-scale production. Croft reflects on the role of art in a technocratic world, the importance of slowing down, and his belief that art should remain free from the constraints of market-driven agendas and political messaging.
It is the last opportunity to see the world's largest nature aquarium live and the final creative gesture by Takashi Amano, in a work that unites art, nature, and science in a living landscape.
The Museum is yet another place of worship for this secular category that inspires religious devotion: contemporary art. Opinion by António Guerreiro
