‘Five Minutes of Jazz’ man dies

José Duarte, an unavoidable figure in the dissemination of jazz, also appeared on television, on RTP2, with programs such as “Outras Músicas”, in the 1990s, and “Jazz a Preto e Branco”, in 2001.

Warm-toned abstract paintings using dots and lines

Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s warm-toned abstract paintings use dots and lines specific to her Aboriginal heritage to create immersive works of art. The painter’s somewhat expressionistic style is a testament to the genre’s global footprint that extended beyond, and came before, the work of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. 

In remembrance of Phyllida Barlow (1944–2023)

Phyllida Barlow was one of the most important British sculptors of her generation, whose work often transformed quotidian materials—plywood, cardboard, cement, fabric, plastic—into what she called “very impractical and very illogical” pieces of unexpected beauty

Dorothea Tanning was born in 1910 in the small town of Galesburg

Dorothea Tanning was born in 1910 in the small town of Galesburg, Illinois in the United States. She died in 2012 in New York, aged 101. Amazingly, she continued to create art and poetry until the end of her life