São Paulo day 7

It's Sunday and I am looking forward to see what street activity is going on today.

I already checked to make sure the modern art museum is open today. It is. Yea!

That will be my first stop, I will walk, it is less than a 15 minute walk.

As I arrive at the museum I see that the this main road, Pauline is blocked off for traffic. I am not sure if is a weekly thing or not, but I believe it is. The street is lined with vendors selling art, crafts, food and anything else you can think of.

But first, I am going to the Museum of Art São Paulo. I got in for 50 percent off because I am old.

The collections permanent and termporary are distributed over 4 floors.

The top floor is a wide open space with the artwork individually displayed using transparent easles anchored in custom made concrete bases. Very unusual. The artwork is arrange in chronological order. I saw many pieces that I liked, that spoke to me.

I took many more pictures than I am posting here. This is just a sampling.

The next floor down featured the work of Francis Bacon. I toured the exhibition hall before reading about him as an artist. I wasn't impressed by any of is work to take any pictures. When I came out of the hall, I read his bio. It peaked my interest, so I went to take a second look. Still nothing. Still didn't take any pictures. 

I made my way down to the next lower level. This is an installation first displayed in the United States in the 80's at the peak of the AIDS crisis.

It was very critical the goverenment and especially Ronald Reagans response to the crisis. I took several pictures, I wll include a couple of them here. You can read more about the installation and collection here:  

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Fury

I could see down to the next level collection. It was focused around fashion and design. I have seen several similar to this. I didn't need to go down to see it up close. 

I spent about 2 hours at the Museum, then it was time to explore the street.

Their were thousands of people on the street, but the area is some big, that it wasn't suffocating. People and kiosk were visible in both directions as far as I could see. This area of Pauline is 6 lanes wide to give you an idea of the space.

People were displaying their art, crafts, handywork and plants in hundreds of locations.

Street food of some many different varieties was sold at a 20 or 30 concessions.

There was a park Parque Tenente Siquiere Campos borders this area of Pauline. I decided to take a park break from the chaos of the streets. The park is densly populated with trees like the park I visited a couple days ago. A lot of people were taking advantage of the space and to take their Sunday strolls. 

After about an hour soaking up the tranquility of the park, I headed back tothe chaos of the street. 

There were at least 20 bands, solo instrumentalists and singers scattered along the route. There amplifiers powered by batteries. As often as I could, if I could find a place to sit, I sat and listened to many of them. Others, I stood breifly then moved one.

Many had their posters on display advertising for paying gigs.

This young boy was quite good. I don't think the dancers were part of the act. They were just there having a good time. That's probably his dad in the back manning the tech.

I have to throw in this picture. It is the building across the street from the hostel. It is built on a lot that is probably not much more than 50 feet wide. I don't know if the building is deeper than it is wide, but it sure is skinny. It is 17 stories high, and I expect, 1 small apartment per floor. I would not want to be in the building during an earthquake. LOL