In the historic Olympic year the festival returns with extraordinary surprises that will take over the streets of Greenwich and East London. One of the highlights of the event is the incredible and epic re-interpretation of the Greek myth with Prometheus Awakes.

The project was developed by the talented and worldwide renowned Catalan theatre group La Fura dels Baus along with Graese, the inventive disabled-led theatre group. The amazing structure will light up the skies and wonder the eyes of the audience with such a spectacular visual show.

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22nd June – 10pm
Prometheus Awakes
Greenwich + Docklands International Festival

National Maritime Museum
Royal Museums Greenwich

London

SE10 9EF
Free entrance

Over fifty art galleries from the Americas, Europe and London will be showcasing an exciting range of works by established and emerging Latin American artists. This is an opportunity to experience the sophisticated, international and most distinguished visual art from Latin America through museum-quality works representative of abstract, concrete, neo-concrete, kinetic and conceptual art.

For 2012, three sections will be presented at PINTA London: Galleries, Solo Exhibitions and Art Projects – the latter of which is set to be curated by London-based Mexican, Pablo Leon de la Barra. Once more, the fair will include the participation of over fifty international art galleries, amongst these São Paulo’s Luciana Brito, Baró and Casa Triângulo, and Rio’s Anita Schwartz.

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7th – 10th June
PINTA London 2012
Earls Court Exhibition Centre
Warwick Road, Earls Court
London
SW5 9TA
http://www.pintaart.com/

General Admission £15
Student £8
Groups (8+) reduced price £12

The exhibition focuses on vanity, particularly looking at the physical cost of this particular trait with pieces such as this cast depicting the artists’s torso after wearing a tight corset:

Tuesday 27th March – Tuesday 1st May
Vanitas
Sutton House
2 & 4 Homerton High Street,
London E9 6JQ

Opening times
Thursday and Friday 10:30 until 5 pm
Saturday and Sunday 12:00 until 5 pm
£3 entrance

Each visitor can take home a specially-commissioned artwork by Brazilian artist Bruno 9Li (whose work is pictured above) and take part in a samba flash mob in the Grand Entrance, with dancers from the Paraíso School of Samba. London-based collective Braziliality will produce a telenovela soap opera entitled The Adventures of Vitoria & Alberto in Brasil which will star visitors as its cast and will be transmitted live in the Museum.

Brazilian design studio Flour will create a giant table football game where visitors can compete for prizes and Rio de Janerio-based practice Super Uber will be at the Museum with their digital installation game which takes inspiration from Pelé. Curitiba-born, London-based illustrator Clayton Junior will host a workshop in which visitors can stencil their own ‘Brazilian Modernist’ designs on to canvas bags to take home. Further highlights include screenings of Jared Levy’s Grafitti Fine Art a film exploring the street art of Sao Paulo and Waste Land, an award-winning documentary about communities living at the world’s largest land-fill in Rio de Janeiro, by Lucy Walker.

Stuart Baker, author and founder of London record label Soul Jazz, will present a selection of Brazilian album covers, discussing the stories behind them. There will also be specially-commissioned installations around the Museum, panel discussions, caipirinhas, food and music from DJ, musician, and producer João Brasil.

27th January 18.30 – 22.00, Admission Free
V&A Friday Late: Hot Brazil
Victoria & Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL
Tel. +44 (0)20 7942 2000
vam.ac.uk/fridaylate

Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992), best known for the buildings she designed and built in Brazil – the House of Glass (1950–51), Museum of Art in São Paulo (1957–68), the Sesc Pompéia (1977–86), amongst others – was a prolific designer, architect, writer and curator, deeply committed to the promotion of the social and cultural potential of architecture. Before adopting Brazil as her home country in the late 1940s, Bo Bardi lived in Milan, where she collaborated with the renowned architect Gio Ponti (1891–1979). Ponti is perhaps better known as the founding editor of the celebrated design magazine Domus. Like Bo Bardi, he was a productive architect, designer, writer and curator, having designed the famous Pirelli Tower in Milan (1950), and collaborated with a number of renowned designers (Piero Fornasetti, Pier Luigi Nervi, amongst others) as well as organising many editions of the Milan Triennial exhibition of the decorative arts.

Curated by Ana Araujo, AA tutor and founder of the Travesia Institute, this exhibition will focus on the crossovers between Bo Bardi’s and Ponti’s approaches to design. It will include drawings, artefacts, film footage and writings covering the work of both architects, as well as a specially commissioned selection of contemporary photographs of Bo Bardi’s buildings by Barcelona-based photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre.

25th February – 24th March
Lina & Gio: The Last Humanists
AA Gallery

aaschool.ac.uk/PUBLIC/WHATSON/exhibitions.php?item=226#-strong-lina-amp-gio-the-last-humanists-strong

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15 December 2011 – 28 January 2012 (Mon-Fri 1-7pm; Sat & Sun 12-4pm)
Stuck: Marie Mackay, Kiki Machado and Julia Miranda
The Original Gallery,
Hornsey Library,
Haringey Park,
London N8 9JA

haringey.gov.uk/theoriginalgallery

One of the highlights of the night will be the first London performance of Children of the Sun by Jose Navarro, a puppet and multimedia performance based on ancient Andean iconography with puppets made by Jonathan Hayter and music composed by Cameron McBride.

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Friday 2nd December, £5
Hatun Machu Picchu
Bolivar Hall,
54 Grafton Way,
London W1T 5DL

For information and bookings contact Jose Navarro on pishtaco1@yahoo.co.uk or 07714 508280

Renowned Brazilian dance artist Thelma Bonavita will be premiering her piece Eu Sou Uma Fruta Gogoia (I am a Gogoia Fruit) – inspired by Gal Costa’s famous folk song – in the UK on November 26th and 27th. Dorothy’s Shoes will pay homage to Brazil via their interactive world premiere of Flying Down To Rio on Friday 25th November, an installation / performance based around a ‘dancehall’ theme, offering a reflection on cultural tourism.

There will also be UK-based artists Martin O’Brien, Gillie Kleiman and Joseph Mercier in a show called Threesome, Bristol’s Action Hero with a London premiere of Frontman, Francesca Millican Slater and her postcard-based piece Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs and a number of other performances and installations.

More details of the event can be found at chelseatheatre.org.uk/index.php?pid=153

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22nd-28th November 2011
SACRED 2011
Chelsea Theatre,
7 World’s End Place,
London SW10 0DR
Tel: 020 7352 1967
chelseatheatre.org.uk

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7th December 2011 – 19th February 2012
Lygia Pape: Magnetized Space
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens
London W2 3XA
Tel: 020 7402 6075
information@serpentinegallery.org

serpentinegallery.org/2011/03/lygia_pape.html

Sebastião Salgado presents previously unseen work from his ongoing photographic essay Genesis – portraying landscapes in their most pristine state, and the communities still living in them, according to ancient traditions in balance with nature.

In contrast, Per Anders Pettersson presents photographs documenting a recent visit to Acre, North-West Brazil with actress Gemma Arterton, to support Sky Rainforest Rescue. These images illustrate the stark reality, and level of devastation, caused by deforestation – and give an insight into the progress being made through Sky Rainforest Rescue, which sees Sky and WWF working closely with the Acre State Government to protect this precious part of the world.

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2nd Nov – 4th Dec, 10am – 6pm
Amazon
East Wing Galleries
Somerset House
Strand
London WC2R 1LA
Tel: 020 7845 4600
Email: info@somersethouse.org.uk

somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/amazon