Lisbon Blog

Fado is the Portugal’s popular music that expresses the feelings of the poor neighborhoods of Lisbon. It contains the melancholy and nostalgia for what is lost. The first records of Fado are from back mid-nineteenth century. This is music and bohemian marginality, which is performed by a soloist accompanied by a Portuguese guitar or viola. [...]

Until the 22nd of January 2012, Chiado Museum in Lisbon exhibits the video- art Marquise, 2007 by the French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. The exhibition is an interesting glance at the visual creation by Gonzalez-Foerster, artist who has been distinguished herself for having a sophisticated view to permanent changes in perceptions of space. The work is a [...]