Cultural travel
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In Brazil and abroad
Cultural travel tours can be organized both in Brazil and abroad.
In Brazil, destinations are selected according to the importance of historical, architectural, and artistic heritage sites. Dates and schedules are defined collaboratively with clients, for previously defined informal or corporative groups; in English, French, or Spanish in addition to Portuguese.
Abroad, destinations vary according to each groups’ interests, often following the international schedule of major exhibitions and art events, such as the Venice, Berlin, or Istanbul Biennales; Kassel’s Documenta; the Frieze Art Fair; or Art Basel. The Cultural travel tours schedule is exclusively available for privilege clients.
A Few Tour Options
Among many tours that have already taken place, a few itineraries are truly special. Our highlights:
Architecture in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and New York
To visit Chicago is to dive deep into American architecture’s history. This is where you will find the most relevant works by Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe, as well as HQs of great architecture studios such as Skidmore Owings & Merrill and Wight Co. Adding to its amazing collection of public art, the city has one of the best museums in the world—the Chicago Art Institute. The tour covers visits to artworks located in remote locations such as the Farnsworth House and the Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece located about seventy miles southeast of Pittsburgh and dully regarded as “the house of the 20th Century.” The trip wraps up with a one-hour flight to New York City, where we will take a train to see the Glass House, Philip Johnson’s home in Connecticut.
New York City & Beacon: Exhibitions and Galleries Circuit
Adding to relevant temporary exhibitions, this tur includes visits to specific sections of the main museums and historic installation that are often missed in the City’s context, such as part of de Joseph Beuys’s 7000 Oaks or Walter de Maria’s New York Earth Room. Two full days are dedicated to visiting two different great cultural centers away from the City, in Beacon and New Windsor.
Paris, Lens, and Metz: Great Museums Circuit
This tour is focused in temporary exhibitions and specific sections of great museums, away from the tourist crowd. The tour includes a trip to Lens, where a branch of the Louvre is located, and another one to Metz, where the Pompidou branch in Northern France is located.
Rome & Florence: Art & History Circuit
A classic, formational tour encompassing visits to palazzos and gardens. One of the high points in this tour is discovering masterpieces in rarely visited locations.
Inhotim Institute & Belo Horizonte: Contemporary Art & Modernist Architecture
You need two full days to get to know the contemporary art collection at Inhotim Institute, which is similarly renown for its botanic collection. To wrap up the tour, a circuit in Belo Horizonte to visit the many works Oscar Niemeyer built in that city in the 1940s and 1950s. The trip ends with visits to exhibitions at institutions located at the Liberdade Square.
Rio de Janeiro: Niemeyer & Burle Marx Circuit
The idea is to start at the Botanical Garden and the Flamengo Embankment and, from there, to explore the Burle Marx Farm at Barra de Guaratiba and then two works built by Niemeyer at different times: the Moreira Salles Home—today the HQ of the namesake institute—and the Niterói Museum. A visit to Lage Park might be included in the tour, depending on the exhibitions on show.
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