I think it’s fair to say that former Brazilian president José Sarney is a pretty unpopular man at the moment. Currently president of the Senate, he’s thought to be at the centre of a corruption scandal of epic proportions. Amongst other things, he is alleged to have channelled taxpayers’ money into covert salary increases for civil servants by allowing a number [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Congress’
June 11, 2009
From the Streets to… Congress (Part 2)
A few nice pictures from the opening of Reciclando Cidades e Conceitos, the Street Art exhibition currently being held inside the national Congress building in Brasília. (Obrigado Jordons!) Related: From the Streets to… Congress? Art as Crime, Crime as Art Force of the Street
May 27, 2009
From the Streets to… Congress?
It seems there’s no limit to the Brazilian government’s new-found enthusiasm for graffiti art. Not yet, anyway. The flyer above is an invite to a hip new Street Art exhibition called Recycling Cities and Concepts, which takes place from the 2nd to the 25th June inside the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia. According to the [...]
