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Os militares Portugueses no Kosovo sem lei
As pernas esticadas em cima de uma mesa de madeira, o olhar perdido não com o que vê mas com o que sonha, André Carvalhas parece um guerrilheiro do Che à entrada do quartel de Guevara.
O edifício atrás de si, em tempos um tribunal, está ocupado e marcado pela guerra. As salas de audiência e os gabinetes juízes ausentes estão cobertas de camas articuladas - que por aqui carinhosamente se chamam burros do mato -, de mobílias desfeitas e estantes desengonçadas com o peso de papeis arrumados ao calhas. As janelas estão algumas estão partidas e outras tapadas. E nas varandas sacos de areia cobrem o aço negro de espingardas.
Cá fora, no átrio, estão estacionados meia dúzia de carros de guerra e ao seu lado soldados rendidos fazem a barba em bacias de improviso ao sol da manhã.
Apesar das aparências, reina a paz e o sossego no improvisado quartel Português na cidade mais perigosa do Kosovo: Mitrovica. (mais,,,)
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O nosso homem em Pristina
A tarefa de Fernando Bessa, no Kosovo, tem o seu quê de missão impossível e uns traços de diplomacia secreta à James Bond.
O major da GNR é a guarda avançada da diplomacia nacional, no mais novo país do mundo. (mais,,,)
Publicado na revista Visão ed.797
11.06.08
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Banksy: The man behind the art
The mystery surrounding the identity of the British graffiti artist is as intriguing as his work.
Banksy has a lot in common with a certain pointy-eared caped-crusaders. Like him, the graffiti artist strives to keep his identity a secret and like him, he wants to save the world.
This time round, the guerrilla artist has taken to campaigning for the anti-plastic bag lobby. (more…)
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The changing face of Brick Lane 
On the northern border of London’s famous Bangla Town, a silver-black eagle carved into the wall of an abandoned brewery keeps a watch on all who enter.
And in the gallery inside, student photographer Jessica Charleston watches patrons admire her picture of a man’s shadow captured in the moonlight.
The photograph is the focal point of the show - Charleston’s first public exhibition – at the Loading Bay in Brick Lane, the hottest venue for contemporary art in East London.
“It is inevitable”, she says of the area that is just half a mile away from Liverpool Street’s skyscrapers. “This place is fast becoming the place for London’s artists’ to exhibit their work.” (more…)
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Lisbon Inebriant bohemia
Andy Warhol was no sailorman. Pablo Picasso no football player. And the blonde of Lichtenstein was no Fado singer. Still, they are in every mouth in Lisbon these days.
Sure you have heard about it even if not for the most artistic reasons: Lisbon city of football and Fado, nostalgic metropolis of a lost empire. But tradition is no more. These days the capital of Portugal is also the centre of contemporary art.
In the Belém district, there where the river meets the ocean and the Portuguese remember the heroes of maritime discoveries, Lisbon placed its new collection of contemporary pieces of art.
The Berardo Collection (Museum of Contemporary Art) gathers works of Bacon, Picasso, Mondrien, Dali and was compared to London’s Saatchi gallery.
The museum is the new face of the transformation going on around. The freed children of the April Revolution – the put down the fascist dictatorship with red carnations - are sweeping old town. And Lisbon is getting a new bohemian look. (more…)hugo coelho
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A night of debauchery in Soho
Jessica promised amazing girls for £5 and private dancers for £10. It sounded like the bargain of the night.
Her beauty made Soho look like paradise and lured us in.
She turned out to be the hook, and we were the perfect fish.
We were looking for a story. And Jessica was not the first to offer us forbidden “delights” that night. ‘Exotic’ girls (read from any ethnic background), marijuana, hashish and cocaine were all on offer. All we had to do was ask.
“Looking for girls? I have some just around the corner. They are clean, they don’t do the streets.” We heard these words over and over again. (more…)
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Being Tracey Emin 
Until she became famous, Tracey Emin slept with Billy Childish, Roberto Navikas, Carl Freedman, Frank Berbee, Marta Tanton, Tracy Horn, Lucey Baxter and many others.
“Some I’d had a shag with in bed or against a wall. Some I had just slept with, like my grandma”.
She then pasted the names of them all (and her two aborted children) on the inside walls of a tent and called her work Everyone I Slept With 1963-1995.
And the day it was first exhibited was the same day Britain was introduced to its most controversial contemporary artist. (more…)
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The boom of carbon trade
Money managers have found a way to milk even the most noble of causes - the Green movement – for hard, cold cash.
A case in point is the Green Exchange, a joint venture between the New York Mercantile Exchange, the world’s largest commodity futures market and brokerage firm Evolution Markets.
Trading in the first carbon derivative contracts began on March 17, a move many analysts say is an indication of just how important carbon trading has become in a few short years. In fact there is a perceived increase in competition among financial players.
The setting up of the Green Exchange is one of the boldest steps the US has taken to enter the carbon-trading league, and move is expected to lead to an explosion of activity in the market. (more…)
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