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TODAY’S PICK — MASP — PAULISTA
MASP free on Tuesdays — the Damián Ortega survey and the Lina Bo Bardi glass easels
Tuesday is MASP’s weekly free day — 10h–18h, no ticket required — and the highest-value museum morning on the São Paulo calendar. After Monday’s full Paulista closure, MASP reopens today as the natural first stop: alight at Trianon-MASP on Linha Verde, walk through the Trianon park to the Av. Paulista 1578 entrance, and arrive before 11h when the rooms are calm. The 35% rain forecast keeps the outdoor alternatives less appealing and pushes the morning indoors, which is exactly what a MASP free Tuesday is designed for.
What to look for: the current headline is a Damián Ortega survey, the Mexican artist’s broad retrospective examining objects, labour and entropy — sculptures and installations that dismantle everyday things and arrange their components into new grids and constellations. Alongside it runs Acervo em transformação, MASP’s own permanent collection displayed on Lina Bo Bardi’s famous glass easels, the 1968 museological experiment that remains the defining feature of the building’s interior. The brutalist concrete building itself, straddling the Paulista on pilotis and opening a public belvedere beneath, is one of the most significant works of Brazilian architecture.
