What attracts me it the free and sensual curve." This philosophy was brought to life in concrete by Oscar Niemeyer for more ...

The RA turns over its grand halls to an erudite, even academic look at half a century of Brazilian painting. There are some interesting finds amid the abundance.

In the 1980s, as Brazil restored its democratic regime, Oscar Niemeyer returned from exile. Confronted with a country where the population had spread to the outskirts of cities, Niemeyer continued ...

Image by Wilfredo Rafael Rodriguez Hernandez, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. In 1900, Paris hosted its first Olympic games. It had been the second city to host them after the first Olympics in Athens ...

As with Pierre Jeanneret and his vision for Chandigarh in India, Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) is famous for his involvement in ...

Against a colonial past dominated politically by large agricultural producers and sustained by enslaved labor, the early 20th century in Brazil was marked by a certain uncertainty in the political ...