MASP’s first building was commissioned in 1957 and opened in 1968, after the city of São Paulo acquired the land and declared it a “public place in perpetuity.” Anchored in that principle ...

The new, 14-story tower of Sao Paulo Museum of Art — better known as MASP after its initials and one of the country's most visited — opened its doors on March 28, bringing to completion its ...

The tall abstract form of the new MASP expansion feels at home in the city of São Paulo – a distinctly vertical metropolis. If you don’t look carefully, from the sky, it can seem like a mammoth ...

Strolling down this avenue is a great way to take in the sights and sounds of São Paulo, and it makes for ... Consolação, Trianon-Masp or Brigadeiro stations, depending on where you want ...

As a result, the plaza remained open and unobstructed, and in 1968, the iconic São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) was born. From the beginning, the project was rife with political overtones.

The Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) is a private not-for-profit museum founded in 1947 by business mogul and patron of the arts Assis Chateaubriand (1892–1968), becoming the first modern museum in ...

(MENAFN- The Rio Times) São Paulo's iconic Museu de Arte de São Paulo (Masp) has undergone a remarkable transformation. A new building, costing R$ 250 ($40) million, now stands at 1500 Avenida ...

Here was the glass-and-concrete prism of Lina Bo Bardi’s epoch-defining São Paulo Museum of Art, or MASP, suspended over an open plaza. Barely a block away, architect Rino Levi’s pyramidal ...

Photograph by André Klotz But I prefer the street’s São Paulo Museum of Art, or MASP, a giant glass box hoisted in the air by stout concrete legs painted a shouty shade of red. When its ...

"The Pietro is completely focused on the public," Paulo Vicelli, MASP's director of experience and communications, told ARTnews. "When we have this tunnel, the experience will be even better." ...