Everything Cool in Portugal
Art and technology converge in a new exhibition at the Casa de Serralves in Porto. In fact, you must use your smartphone or tablet computer in order to view this unique exhibit. “Walls to the People,” created by artist João Paulo Feliciano with the support of SIM - Movement...
With a career spanning more than 30-years, native Porto artist Gerardo Burmester has become one of Portugal’s most significant contemporary artists. Burmesters most recent works are featured in a new exhibition 2011 Alguns Trabalhos Revisitados (”Some Works Revisited”)....
German photographer Thomas Struth is one of the world’s foremost photographers of our generation. His photographs reveal the cultural, psychological and historical undercurrents beneath the surface of modernity. And now, in Portugal for the first time, the Serralves Museum of...
Contemporary artist Pedro Valdez Cardoso has a unique way of expressing himself. With everyday consumer products for materials, he blends classical styles of art and design, with iconography of folk and tribal art. The result is a breadth of work that has been embraced by the...
Whether you consider cemeteries sacred or macabre, these bone yards are interesting, historically cool, sometimes significant, and often, architecturally amazing. Portugal Confidential is checking out cemeteries across the...
[caption id="attachment_1232" align="alignright" width="256" caption="Vincent Dupont, Haus Cris"][/caption] For the fifth year, the city of Porto becomes a giant stage for performing arts during the TRAMA Festival, scheduled for 14-17 October 2010 Organized by the...
