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Two important exhibitions at the Bordalo Pinheiro Museum: one dedicated to Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, featuring a varied overview of his artistic work, and another on the 150th anniversary of Zé Povinho, the creation that outlived its inventor.
An art historian now argues that the painting, which for over a hundred years was believed to be a studio reproduction, may have been created by the Dutch master himself. However, not everyone will agree.
In an era of platforms and algorithms, this article explores the challenges of film criticism, drawing inspiration from Jérémie Koering's recent book on Diego Velázquez's 1656 masterpiece, 'Las Meninas'. By revisiting Michel Foucault's analysis of the painting, the text examines the complex interplay between the viewer's gaze, the artist, and the subjects, ultimately challenging the notion that images are merely passive reproductions of reality.
It is a rare piece, both for the material from which it was made and for having survived to the present day, as well as being of national production. Until Thursday, it is at an antiques fair. Was it commissioned by the king himself?
Madalena Braz Teixeira was an art historian and museologist, best known for her work with the National Costume Museum in Lisbon. She died at the age of 87.
On the path of the stars
He was the creator of the work 'Women of Lisbon' and of the sculptures depicting figures of Portuguese poetry in the Jardim dos Poetas in Oeiras. He was 80 years old.
In 1983 this pair was photographed in a full sexual embrace in New York. The image is one of 126 in the series “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency”, created between 1973 and 1986 by the photographer Nan Goldin.
