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| There is so much to see and do in the vast green space known as Ibirapuera Park. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Blessed with over 2 million square meters of green space, S�o Paulo's version of Central Park offers quite a bit to see and do. You can wander the paths beside pleasant lagoons or in the Japanese garden; you can jog the exercise track or rent a bicycle and cycle the pathways. Every Sunday morning there's a free outdoor concert in the park's Pra�a da Paz. Sundays from 10am to 4pm you can take advantage of the Bosque de Leitura, a kind of free outdoor lending library that lets you borrow magazines or books (including many in English) to read in the park for the duration of day. In the corner near Gate 3 there's the Museu de Arte Moderna (Museum of Modern Art). Just nearby there's the OCA Auditorium, a flying saucer-shaped building that often hosts traveling art exhibits. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| At least part of the MASP experience is the building itself. The main display space is a single long box raised two stories off the ground on bright red concrete piers. Inside, the MASP contains an excellent selection of Western art, from 14th-century Italian religious imagery to the early-20th-century works of Picasso. Every period and country has a representative sample -- Dutch Rembrandts, English Turners, Spanish El Grecos, and French everythings (Rodin, Renoir, Degas, and Monet) -- but with the exception of one room dedicated to Candido Portinari, Brazilian art is entirely absent. If you've missed out seeing these artists elsewhere in Europe or North America, the MASP is well worth a visit. Don't miss the basement of the MASP; there's a small but very clever circular gallery used to display modern Brazilian photography. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| MASP - Museum of Art of Sao Paulo | ||||||||||||||||||||||