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The exhibition 'Day of the Dead in Mexico. Art and Tradition' is organised in partnership with the Mexican Embassy in Portugal and gathers various artistic expressions and traditions associated with the Day of the Dead.
The upcoming 180th anniversary of the birth of António Soares dos Reis, a leading figure in 19th-century Portuguese sculpture, serves as an opportunity to reflect on the preservation and study of national artistic heritage. While works like 'O Desterrado' demonstrate his technical mastery and emotional depth, the commemorative programme planned for 2027-2028 by the Soares dos Reis National Museum and other institutions must go beyond celebration to foster new research and public engagement. Ultimately, honouring such an artist requires active institutional commitment to ensure his legacy is understood by future generations.
A tribute to José Pedro Martins Barata (1929-2026), a Renaissance man of universal culture, noted architect, and artist. The text details his extensive career in urban planning, education, and design, and highlights his family's artistic legacy. It also reflects on the importance of culture as a driving force for progress, while acknowledging the documentary 'O Filme do Meio' by Margarida Gil, which celebrates the intersection of literature and life.
“Terás visto o mar?” (Have you seen the sea?) is the exhibition by João Pina that can be seen at the National Museum of Contemporary Art.
The Brazilian visual artist presents the work developed during her residency at Verso Galeria in Lisbon. The exhibition opens to the public this Tuesday, October 27th.
A pioneer of designer jewellery, Kukas left behind more than 100 pieces, with executive curation and brand management now handled by Filipa Fortunato, including limited editions and an expansion into more points of sale.
Artist Eduardo Matos unanimously won the 2026 Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) Drawing Award, announced today by the contemporary art fair Drawing Room Lisbon, a partner of the award.
The jury awarded the prize unanimously. The other finalists for the prize were artists Catarina Real, Rudi Brito, Inês Teixeira, and Tomás Cunha Ferreira.
With 23 galleries and a clearly young audience, the SNBA exhibition halls appear dedicated exclusively to drawing, with works already being sold on the first day.
Matilde Viegas, who photographs for The New York Times, documented the daily life of Portuguese markets. The Dia de Feira project was also recorded on video by Mafalda Salgueiro.
At Adorna, in Porto, she presents the exhibition Ciumentamente Encostados. In these photographs, the body, fiction, the human, comedy, and drama coexist.
The work 'Gaza, for the History of Horror' was part of a special project by the newspaper Público, which marked, in 2025, two years of the war in Gaza.
A giant notebook featuring the silhouette of the Teatro Viriato demystifies the artistic process of Angela Rocha, exposing doubts, rehearsals, and local partnerships, leading up to the large commemorative model.
Faced with the daily stream of images of explosions, corpses, and ruins arriving via screens, the artist Tiago Cutileiro has found in artistic creation a form of reflection and resistance.
Concluding the journey through Liliana Velho's works at the Teatro Viriato, broom plants and black stoneware symbolise rebirth and cohesion, in an invitation to follow the exhibition's evolution.
What strikes me about Lisbon is the feeling of belonging and familiarity, as if I had walked its streets, climbed its hills and gazed at the river in another life. A person who captured this similarity is the Turkish art master Devrim Erbil, whose painting 'Twin Souls' adorns the walls of the Palácio Pimenta, at the Museum of Lisbon. In the painting, 89-year-old Erbil, one of Turkey's leading contemporary artists, portrays the two cities side by side, dividing his canvas vertically based on the distinctive colours of the two countries' flags: green and red. Though Lisbon sits on Europe's western edge and Istanbul on the continent's eastern extremity, both cities share a similar topography, history and culture, having both been classified by Romans as 'cities of seven hills', featuring river-like straits or rivers, and histories defined by imperial eras and devastating 18th-century earthquakes.
Molded from red clay from Vendas Novas, a heart disintegrates on the wall. The artist explores the symbolism of love and loss through abstract forms born from the action of time in the countryside.
If there are paintings by an important artist that are lost and have been sought by historians for years, why not a global campaign in newspapers and on social media? Opinion by Bárbara Reis
Portuguese cartoonist was doubly distinguished in the 19th edition of the competition with the work 'Gaza, for the History of Horror'.
Carrilho was also awarded third place in the Caricature category for a drawing of British politician Nigel Farage, published in The New Statesman magazine.
Inspired by the dry branches of a cactus gnawed on by sheep in the countryside, Liliana Velho combined ephemeral elements of nature with ceramics to recreate the arteries of a surprising heart.
Portuguese artist André Carrilho won the 2026 World Press Cartoon Grand Prix this Thursday for an editorial drawing about Gaza. The piece, which depicts an injured child on a pedestal in a museum setting, also earned him the top prize in the Editorial Cartoon category. Additionally, Carrilho placed third in the Caricature category for a portrait of British politician Nigel Farage. The awards ceremony was held in Oeiras, Lisbon, marking the 19th edition of the World Press Cartoon exhibition, which features over 200 works and runs at the Palácio Anjos until January 2027.
The MACAM - Armando Martins Museum of Contemporary Art, in Lisbon, begins a workshop dedicated to traditional embroidery this weekend. Over the course of five practical sessions and three public conversations, the initiative aims to promote this artistic expression and reflect on its role in social relationships.
Born in Paris to intellectuals who opposed the Estado Novo regime, he spent his youth in exile with his family. In Portugal, Miguel Brandão de Carvalho became Sei Miguel and, since the 1980s, created one of the most unique languages in national jazz, admired by successive generations of musicians but little known to the general public. The trumpeter, composer, and designer died in 2025. An exhibition, concerts, a book, and new albums will soon celebrate him. Friends and family guide us to the man.
Lisbon’s National Museum of Ancient Art (MNAA) will partially reopen to the public on November 21, more than a year after closing for major renovation work. The reopening weekend will The post Lisbon’s National Museum of Ancient Art reopens in November appeared first on Portugal Resident.
Admission will be free between November 21 and December 1. The museum was closed for renovations funded by the PRR, and during that time, it lent its pieces to other museum institutions across the country.
The National Museum of Ancient Art (MNAA) in Lisbon will partially reopen on November 21 with activities for the public and free admission, following renovation works funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR). The reopening weekend, starting at 3:00 PM on Saturday, will feature a program of activities including...
Francisco Fino and Pedro Cera are the two Portuguese galleries present starting this Wednesday at the 24th edition of Frieze London. In their 'luggage' they bring Portuguese artists such as Helena Almeida, Gabriel Abrantes, Vasco Araújo, and João Penalva, among others. Elsewhere in Regent's Park, the home of the British art fair, is the Perve Galeria.
Artists Daniela Ângelo, Eduardo Antonio, Inês Mendes Leal, Maria Paz Aires, Sara Graça, Sofia Mascate and Teresa Murta are the seven finalists for the 16th edition of the EDP Foundation New Artists Award, the organisation announced today.
The artist shares the spontaneous process of creating a disintegrating heart, revealing fingerprints in the clay and a risky single-firing technique that produces unique visual effects.
