Street Syntax
The thieves grabbed Matisse’s Orientalist fantasies and Portinari’s plantation ghosts, creating the most chaotic — and unintentionally political — art collection of the year.
Ancestral Echoes
Why the myth of a monolingual nation still shapes power, memory, and who gets to belong.
Sonic Cartographies
LED hats, big sub-bass, and rural nostalgia collide in Brazil’s wildest new sonic mutation.
Coded Dreams
After years of watching summers turn into firestorms, two students designed an autonomous hexapod built to survive the ashes—and seed the next forest.
Ancestral Echoes
Designed with Indigenous leaders and rooted in 270 languages, the new university rewires Brazil’s academic system from the ground up — and from the forest outward.
Random Urgencies
As climate change fuels dengue’s spread, Brazil’s one-dose vaccine arrives like a political and scientific thunderclap.
Sonic Cartographies
The exhibition proves the obvious and still controversial truth: the future of Portuguese is being written in the bailes, not in Lisbon’s grammar books.
Diaspora Aesthetics
A quiet observer who turned São Paulo’s rush toward modernity into a study of humanity, light, and everyday grace.
Ancestral Echoes
A blockbuster show that refuses to let Portugal keep pretending Brazil is just colour, rhythm and saudade.
Ancestral Echoes
When a drawing sparks a police raid and a woman is stabbed for practicing her faith, it’s clear: intolerance isn’t rising quietly — it’s arriving armed.
Random Urgencies
Between 4 and 5 AM, twenty pistoleros raided a Guarani Kaiowá village. One man was executed. The country keeps calling it “conflict.” The community calls it what it is: survival against a state-backed land war.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Part protest, part climate science, part improvisation — Brazil’s Brutalism rewrote the rules using nothing but concrete and nerve.