Feira Hippie de Ipanema
Sunday open-air art fair where painters and craftspeople have sold work from cloths spread on the ground since a bar tab in the sixties.
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This guide to Feira Hippie de Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro opens on a broke, thirsty painter named Hugo Bidet crossing this square in the late 1960s with a roll of drawings, determined to sell one before facing his bar tab. It traces how his artist friends joined him the following Sundays, and the tension between the original painters and the hippies and craftspeople who later arrived with beadwork and leather. A tip for browsing: come early, before the Sunday crowds fill the square.
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