this refined art fair, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors over its last installments, features works from the major national contemporary galleries as well as works from internationally renown galleries such as gagosian, david zwirner, white cube, kaikai kiki and from the collections of ella cisneros and moma curator jay levinson.

september is also the month of rock in rio - consistently featuring a lineup worthy of its storied history - the 7 day festival, started nearly 40 years ago at the end of the military dictatorship, and represented the beginning of a new era of openness in the cultural and public life of rio and the country as a whole.

spread out across two weekends at the stadium and olympic site, it featured international superstars such as beyoncé, justin timberlake, alicia keys, bon jovi and bruce springsteen as well as brazilian favorites maria rita, zeca baleiro, kimbra + olodum, and sepultura.