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25-476: Bom Retiro (literally meaning "good retreat") may refer to: Bom Retiro, São Paulo , a district of São Paulo, Brazil Bom Retiro, Santa Catarina , a Brazilian city in the state Santa Catarina Bom Retiro do Sul , a municipality Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Bom Retiro River , Brazil [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with

50-504: A logo representing only its nickname, "Pina". According to the director of institutional relations at the museum, Paulo Vicelli, the changing oficializes the name that the visitors were already using. The Pinacoteca Station started being named as "Pina Station", and the Jardim da Luz museum as "Pina Luz". The new visual identity was created by the publicity agency F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi  [ pt ] . The memorable elements from

75-478: A renovation conducted by Paulo Mendes da Rocha in the 1990s, the museum became one of the most dynamic cultural institutions of the country, lining up with the international circuit of exhibitions, hosting cultural events and keeping an active bibliographic production. "Pina", as the museum is also known, administrates the art space called Estação Pinacoteca  [ pt ] (Portuguese for "Pinacoteca Station), or Pina Estação, installed in an old building which

100-519: Is considered the oldest park in the city and one of the few green areas in the central region of São Paulo, with many sculptures and other forms of artwork displayed and kept by the Pinacoteca Museum, which is located next to it. Drug activity is not uncommon in its surroundings, which gave the region a bad reputation as the "Cracolandia," or "Crackheadland." Despite the City's attempt to revamp

125-595: Is now Lebanon and Syria. In greater numbers, the Italians settled in the sections of Bela Vista, Brás, Ipiranga, and Barra Funda and other parts of the state. The Jewish presence was especially felt in the Rua Prates area, with the Renascenca school and college, synagogues, and Kosher stores and restaurants, some of which are still active. After acquiring prosperity from their retail businesses, many Jews migrated to

150-671: Is served by Line 1 (Blue) of the São Paulo Metro and by the lines 7 (Ruby) , 10 (Turquoise) , and 11 (Coral) of the CPTM . There is also a planned station for Line 4 (Yellow) of the São Paulo Metro . In the late 19th century and the early 20th century, Bom Retiro was considered to be a modern region. The Luz and the Júlio Prestes railway stations, along with Jardim da Luz , then São Paulo's only public park, were elegant examples of European-influenced Luz Station which

175-902: The Museu de Arte Sacra de São Paulo —Sacred Art Museum, with an impressive Brazilian Baroc Art collection and a giant Nativity Scene from Naples, the Pinacoteca Station Art Institute , and the Centre for Music Studies - Tom Jobim are also in the area. The old building of the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo now holds the State of São Paulo Technical College and the São Paulo Federal Technical School. Jardim da Luz

200-479: The São Paulo Museum of Art on December 20, 2007 in which works by Picasso and Candido Portinari had been taken. On August 6, 2008, two paintings were discovered in the house of one of the thieves and recovered by police in the same city. The Pinacoteca has a wide-ranging collection of Brazilian art , mainly noted for its vast assemblage of 19th-century paintings and sculptures, one of the largest in

225-778: The history of Brazilian painting in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is also noteworthy the Brasiliana Collection, a collection composed by foreign artists actives in Brazil or inspired by the country iconography , the Nemirovsky Collection, with an ample and expressive collection of masterpieces of Brazilian modernism and, recently, the Roger Wright Collection, received by the institute in January 2015. Since January 2006, Pinacoteca uses

250-601: The state of São Paulo ") is one of the most important art museums in Brazil. It is housed in a 1900 building in Jardim da Luz , Downtown São Paulo , designed by Ramos de Azevedo and Domiziano Rossi  [ pt ] to be the headquarters of the Lyceum of Arts and Crafts . It is the oldest art museum in São Paulo, founded on December 24, 1905, and established as a public state museum since 1911. After passing through

275-411: The 1870s, was transmuting, boosted by the coffee cycle expansion and the rail transport settlement. The country was receiving extensive flow of immigrants (intensified after the slavery abolitionism ), that allowed meaningful transformations, embracing from the material culture and eating habits to the recently developed forms of socialization. The urban centers were becoming more modern and denser. In

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300-531: The MASP São Paulo Art Museum at avenida Paulista, have gone through efforts to keep high survaillance in order to ensure the safety of both the visitors and the valuable art stored in those institutes. The José Paulino Street's clothing retail shops and sweatshops, along with the Rua 25 de Março bargain clothing stores have been often owned by Koreans and Chinese immigrants. Bom Retiro is known as

325-676: The São Paulo Symphonic Orchestra. Luz Sta. has trains to the Eastern suburb cities of the Greater São Paulo region, such as Santo André, Mogi das Cruzes, Suzano and Poá. In addition, the Jundiaí line still serves that city and the São Paulo's Westside sections suburbs, such as Barra Funda, Lapa, Piqueri, Pirituba, Caieiras, Franco da Rocha, and Francisco Morato. A section of Luz station has been transformed into

350-573: The area by remodeling buildings and giving incentives to big businesses to settle in the area, its conditions haven't been fully refurbished, both in structure and safety. With the São Paulo Old Centro Renaissance efforts, most of the homeless and drug addict demographic has moved further towards the Republica and Sé Square regions, splitting in smaller groups around the city. The Luz metro and train stations, as well as at

375-513: The city of São Paulo, the net worth accumulated by the coffee producers were reinvested in the newly industry . Brand new buildings were built and the rammed earth technique was taking the brickwork place. Noble neighborhoods were built to house the manor houses and palaces of the coffee barons, following the European architectural standards , marked by eclecticism . More numerous were the working-class neighborhoods that emerged, rapidly expanding

400-599: The coffee plantations in the state interior via the Santos-Jundiai line or shifted to the São Paulo Railway line, later E.F. Sorocabana at Julio Prestes station towards São Paulo State's SW, NW, and Parana' State. Julio Prestes now operates only local trains in the Greater São Paulo region and had some of its halls transformed into the State of the Art Sala Cidade de São Paulo Concert Hall, home to

425-460: The country, as well as for a number of iconic Brazilian Modernist artworks. The collection also includes a department of works on paper, European paintings and sculptures from 19th-century artists, decorative arts , etc. In 2017, IBM partnered with Pinacoteca de São Paulo for the 'Voice of Art' project, using Watson to allow visitors to interact with artworks like 'Mestiço' by Cândido Portinari , Saudade , by Almeida Junior (1899), Lindonéia,

450-643: The interactive Museu da Lingua Portuguesa, the world's only Lusophone—Portuguese language related—museum dedicated in the mid-2000s (decade) with the presence of Portuguese, Brazilian, African and Asian authorities of those countries once ruled by the Portuguese crown. It is an important stop for those who study the language and the field of Linguistics, as well as anthropology, uses of language, folklore, language development and foreign influences, dialects, poetry, music, origin of names of foods and utensils and other curiosities. The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo ,

475-442: The museum architecture, such as the columns, the wall bricks and the grand staircase, makes appearances in the visual identity. The Pinacoteca origins takes you back to the criation of the Lyceum of Arts and Crafts of São Paulo . This one is a result of a context of intense social, political and economic changes that took place in São Paulo at the second half of the 19th century. The then province, which remained quite discreet until

500-589: The newer and more affluent sections of Higienopolis, Cerqueira Cesar and Jardins. The Syrian-Lebanese dominated the Rua José Paulino shopping centers as well as the more affluent Paraíso and Vila Mariana neighborhoods near the starting point of the Avenida Paulista new financial center. Bom Retiro was the entry gate of the immigrant arrivals from the port of Santos, who landed in the city by train via Luz station, or continued their journey towards

525-479: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bom_Retiro&oldid=818278113 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bom Retiro, S%C3%A3o Paulo The district

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550-1025: The second largest Asian community in the city, only beat by Liberdade , which is home to the largest japanese community outside of Japan. Koreans are now known to control two thirds of the clothing retail business and their materials travel all over Brazil. On 6 January 2010, the São Paulo City Council officially recognised Bom Retiro as being the Korean cultural neighbourhood. On 13 April 2017, São Paulo's mayor João Doria reported during his trip to South Korea, that neighborhood's name Bom Retiro could be altered to Bom Retiro Little Seul, but changed his mind due to negative reactions on public opinion. 23°32′00″S 46°39′00″W  /  23.5333333433°S 46.65000001°W  / -23.5333333433; -46.65000001 Pinacoteca do Estado de S%C3%A3o Paulo The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (Portuguese for " pinacotheca (picture gallery) of

575-537: The urban core. On June 12, 2008, three armed men broke into the museum with a crowbar and a carjack around 5:09 am and stole The Painter and the Model (1963) and Minotaur, Drinker and Women (1933) by Pablo Picasso , Women at the Window (1926) by Emiliano Di Cavalcanti , and Couple (1919) by Lasar Segall . It was the second theft of art in São Paulo in six months, with a similar robbery having occurred at

600-456: Was actually built in England while the architecture and landscaping were put together in Brazil. It was originally an industrial section. In the 1960s, factories began being replaced by active clothing and fashion retail stores and textile and weaving small businesses. The neighborhood had an influx of Mediterranean immigrants such as Italians, Greeks, European Jews and Levantine Arabs from what

625-588: Was once owned by the DOPS , in Bom Retiro district, where it holds temporary contemporary art exhibitions, the Walter Wey Library and the institution's documentation center, called Documentation and Memory Center. The Pinacoteca houses one of the largest and most representatives Brazilian art collections, mainly noted for its vast assemblage with more than ten thousand pieces of art covering mostly

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