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# Arto Lindsay Explores the Brazilian Avant-Garde at the Whitney Museum
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/arto-lindsay-explores-the-brazilian-avant-garde-at-the-whitney-museum/
- Published: 2017-09-04T15:51:19.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:11:59.000Z
- Description: In conjunction with the Hélio Oiticica retrospective, Lindsay has organized a series of concerts and events that illuminate the enduring impact of this period in Brazilian art.
- Author: Elisa Wouk Almino
- Tags: Art, Events, Helio Oiticica, Whitney Museum of American Art, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:30(2016, 2017, part 3)

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Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium at the Whitney Museum of American Art (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)

“I didn’t really realize the implications of it when I was a teenager,” [said](https://hyperallergic.com/arto-lindsay-remembers-helio-oiticica/) [Arto Lindsay](http://artolindsay.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in a recent interview with Hyperallergic about his time living in Brazil. The American experimental musician came of age during the rise of Brazil’s anarchist cultural movement, [Tropicália](https://soundcloud.com/hyperallergic/brazils-inhotim-and-the-legacy-of-tropicalia?ref=hyperallergic.com), which is now considered to be one of the country’s greatest periods in art and music. It produced the likes of [Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil](https://hyperallergic.com/singing-along-with-two-titans-of-brazilian-music/) — both inspirations and collaborators in Lindsay’s music — and seminal artists like [Hélio Oiticica](https://hyperallergic.com/tripping-through-helio-oiticicas-mythical-world/), who is currently having [a retrospective](http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/HelioOiticica?ref=hyperallergic.com) at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Lindsay has organized a series of events titled [*Myth Astray*](http://whitney.org/Events/MythAstrayArtoLindsay?ref=hyperallergic.com) that will highlight crossovers between visual art and music in Tropicália, as well as the movement’s enduring impacts, political and otherwise. Among the movies that will screen is Júlio Bressane’s [*O Anjo Nasceu*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih0g5IirZJs&ref=hyperallergic.com)(1969), which was censored by Brazil’s military regime at the time. A poetic black-and-white film, it tells the story of two bandits encountering an angel amidst violent crimes in the city. In addition to putting on a full-on concert of his music, Lindsay will also do a performance with Alexander Calder’s “noisemakers” — including both traditional and improvised instruments — that he devised after visiting Brazil in the 1940s.

Finally, I am especially curious to hear the cultural critic and novelist Barbara Browning reflect on Oiticica’s eight-year period in New York, which, until very recently, had been essentially ignored.

**When:** Thursday, September 7–Sunday, September 10  
**Where:** Whitney Museum of American Art, 3rd Floor, Susan and John Hess Family Theater (99 Gansevoort St, Meatpacking District, Manhattan)

*More info* [*here*](http://whitney.org/Events/MythAstrayArtoLindsay?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*