MAAT x Belém Library: Word of Art

MAAT and the Belém Library are launching a joint initiative to promote reading and bring communities of readers closer to the museum's exhibitions.

Each month, there will be reading suggestions made by artists and curators for MAAT's exhibitions. The Belém Library will make the respective books available to be borrowed, thus expanding the themes covered by the museum's program.

Several artists and curators select between 2 and 3 books that encourage and complement the visit to MAAT's exhibitions. In addition to online communication, the reading suggestions will be announced on the poster at the entrance to the Library.

February

Choises of João Pinharanda and Camila Maissune, Black Ancient Futures exhibition curators
Édouard Gllissant, Poetics of Relation
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Esse Cabelo 

March

Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees  
Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia 
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Italian Journey 

April

Herberto Hélder, Ou o Poema Contínuo 
Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris 
Marcel Proust,  In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way (Book 1).