The festival, albeit on a smaller scale than that of its Brazilian model, helps to keep their heritage alive and celebrate the city's Afro-Brazilian ... a hug from a man also performing on stilts.

It depicts a Black man dreaming in a hammock ... nourishment—it is a powerful metaphor for Obá’s exploration of Afro-Brazilian history, and more broadly, for an artist’s stripping away ...

A new Afro-Brazilian band that took form in the summer ... “But this year, this summer, I started to think, ‘Oh, man, I really want to play this music.’ Because I was sitting in my office ...

But at the RA, one can appreciate her bold Expressionist portraits and landscapes, as well as the mysterious pastel-and-charcoal “Man of Seven ... Here, the works of Afro-Brazilian artist ...

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