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...Museu do Oriente (Museum of the Orient) was opened in May by Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva and Prime Minister José Sócrates. In planning for nearly two decades, the $46.6 million facility was set up by the Fundação Oriente (Orient Foundation) - a Portuguese cultural organization established in the former colony of Macau in 1988 - and showcases a vast array of Asian artifacts on five floors in a magnificent Art Deco building along the Lisbon waterfront at Alcãntara...
...Among the Museu do Oriente's collections are many prominent pieces that have never been publicly exhibited, including rare crucifixes, snuff bottles, screens, ornaments, paintings and antiques from as far afield as East Timor, Japan, Goa, Korea and Macau (the latter meriting a section of its own). There is also a special exhibition devoted to Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist and Shinto religious objects. But art experts and historians are most excited about the reappearance of a well-known collection that has not been shown publicly for many years...
...Baby's dislike for Matarazzo and likes to print whole pages of pictures of underpaid Matarazzo workers and their crowded hovels. "Chatô's" head office, two of his 28 newspapers and one of his TV stations are in Sáo Paulo. So is his new Museu de Arte. In a city of self-made millionaires, Chatô is a self-appointed propagandist for the arts and cultural tutor to tycoons. His own taste is excellent, and the museum's collection is a good one (including Rembrandt, El Greco, Portinari...
Brazil's year-old Museu de Arte was jammed with granfinos (upper-crusters). Outside in the warm spring rain, hundreds more art lovers queued up, patiently awaiting their turn. It was the opening day of Cândido Portinari's first exhibition in Sāo Paulo in 14 years...
...Genealogical Tree", Professor Hooton, Semetic Museu, Anthropology...