CULTURE

Accompanying an unprecedented level of national attention, Brazil's always vibrant cinema community has had a number of international festival successes this year, exploring themes and diverse realities that break from what the...

In The 1970's, while the military dictatorship was crumbling and before the economic crisis of the 1980's kicked in, Brasil had a happy interlude; post-tropicalism, a vivid, unique & independent rock...

Bruno Verner is a musician, poet & independent curator best known for his work with Brazilian tropical punk funk art duo Tetine which he formed with Eliete Mejorado in São Paulo in 1995. With Tetine, he has...

Neither is it the right angle, which attracts me, nor the straight line, hard, inflexible, made by men. What attracts me is the curve, free and sensual, the curve I find...

The complexities of contemporary Brazil can be difficult to understand at the best of times. The editors at Brasil Wire have put together a primer of books about Brasil to help readers,...

This week the São Paulo Bienal Pavilion opens its doors to another edition of one of the largest art exhibitions in the country, and one of the most important in the...

A collaboration between nomadic underground event Voodoohop & a who's who of SP counterculture, with a little help from the Secretaria Municipal de Cultura de São Paulo, the first SP na Rua...

A Brazilian proverb states, “Those who leave will take longing on their journeys.” However, translating saudade with “longing” doesn’t do the term justice. Olaf Heine’s photographs convey impressions that are hard...

Emir Sader: For Edward Said, the Orient exists only in the imagination of Westerners. It was created to represent the "other" in the polarisation between "civilization" (themselves, naturally) and "barbarism" (everyone...