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2 weeks agoIllustrator Spotlight: Cezar Berje
Cezar Berje's visual approach is a mix of chaos-vibrant colours, symbols, and new age psychedelia. His illustrations often suggest universes within universes, with each part of the image telling its own story through symbols and references.
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4 weeks agoThe impious and sodomite' Portuguese nobleman who kept banned books inside the walls of his house in a Spanish village
A 1992 discovery of 11 sixteenth-century books hidden in a Spanish home belonged to Portuguese nobleman Fernao Brandao, who fled the Inquisition due to his sexual orientation.
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1 month agoThe number 24 is considered very "gay" in Brazil. Here's why... - LGBTQ Nation
The number 24 is considered gay in Brazil due to a historical lottery game where the deer, a feminine-coded animal, occupies the 24th position, combined with linguistic wordplay in Portuguese.
World politics
fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 month agoHow The Secret Agent Became Brazil's Reluctant Political Rorschach Test
Brazil's October presidential election marks the first vote since Bolsonaro's 2022 defeat, with Lula potentially becoming the country's first four-term president while the nation recovers from democratic threats.
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month agoManumission digitisation project reveals grim story of slavery in Brazil
A collaborative research project digitized over 300,000 manumission papers from 19th-century Bahia archives, creating a database that reveals slavery and emancipation complexities while enabling descendants of enslaved people to reconstruct their ancestral histories.
London food
fromTime Out London
1 month agoThis traditional boteco in northwest London is officially the best Brazilian restaurant in the city
London's Brazilian food scene offers diverse, affordable options from authentic botecos to steakhouses and street-food specialties, with Kaipiras by Barraco ranked top.
World politics
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2 months agoWhy a T-shirt hiding in a hit movie is trending with Brazilian progressives: Almost every day they sell out'
A vintage 1978 yellow T-shirt from Olinda's Pitombeira has become a symbol of Brazilian leftist identity after exposure in The Secret Agent and Moura's awards.
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2 months agoBrazilian Musician Seu Jorge Performs 15 Iconic Bowie Songs in Portuguese to Mark the 10th Anniversary of Bowie's Passing
In 2004, the Brazilian musician Seu Jorge recorded a series of Portuguese covers of David Bowie songs for Wes Anderson's film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. The next year, he released a full album of 13 Bowie classics, and in 2016-2017, he even took the songs on tour. Now, in 2026, to mark the 10th anniversary of Bowie's passing, Jorge returns with the performance above.
Music
Travel
fromBusiness Insider
1 month agoI moved from the US to Brazil after losing my job. Despite the intense culture shock, I couldn't be happier with my decision.
Moving from Chicago to São Paulo after job loss brought cultural surprises, unexpected chilly weather, varied cuisine, and daily language practice.
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month agoMore than 600 works by Afro-Brazilian artists returned to Brazil
A voluntary repatriation returned 666 Afro-Brazilian works from Detroit to Muncab in Salvador, marking Brazil's largest cultural repatriation and a symbolic act of reparation.
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2 months agoBrazil's Bolsonaro finds novel way to reduce 27-year sentence: reading books
Jair Bolsonaro's lawyers appear to have been reading up on the country's penal code and have found a way to help their client reduce the 27-year prison sentence he received last year for plotting a coup: by reading books. There is only one problem: the former far-right Brazilian president has never been known as a bibliophile. Sorry, I don't have time to read, Bolsonaro once declared. It's been three years since I read a book.
World news
Film
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1 month agoThis Brazilian Oscar contender has the best acting you'll see in 2026
The Secret Agent portrays Brazil's 1977 military dictatorship through hallucinatory pulp-horror, blending political thriller, grotesque surrealism, and dark comedy centered on a vengeful disembodied limb.
Music
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2 months agoFabiano Do Nascimento & Vittor Santos Orquestra: Vila review | Ammar Kalia's global album of the month
Fabiano do Nascimento combines virtuosic fingerpicked guitar with Vittor Santos's 16-piece orchestral arrangements to create lush, percussive, bossa-influenced instrumental music on Vila.
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2 months agoRegina Silveira Pieces Together an Evolving Narrative of Latin America
Regina Silveira has spent the better part of three decades considering the relationship between media and meaning, particularly as it relates to Latin America. First presented in 1997, "To Be Continued..." features 100 black-and-white reproductions of photos, newspaper clippings, propaganda, advertisements, and more. Silveira nests each image into an oversized puzzle piece, which cuts off faces and scenes to leave fragments of pop culture icons, flora and fauna, and even the occasional mugshot spliced next to one another.
Arts
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2 months agoI've been advised not to say certain things': The Secret Agent makers on Oscars, dictators and death threats
Unusually for a political period drama that is not in the English language, runs nearly three hours and peppers its authentic portrayal of a military dictatorship with sight gags and gory shootouts, The Secret Agent has transpired to be quite the awards magnet. Best picture and best actor, for its star Wagner Moura (who recently won a Golden Globe), are two of the four categories in which it will compete at next month's Oscars.
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