The Heart & Hustle of Portugal

Isabel Pavão, the Portuguese painter who has lived in New York since 1990, believes that the process of making art matters as much as the finished work. In this episode of The Heart & Hustle of Portugal, the artist retraces a path that runs from Porto to Paris and finally to Manhattan, where she arrived as a doctoral student at New York University, backed by a Gulbenkian grant, to study aesthetics, the language used to talk about art.
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In this conversation on “The Heart & Hustle of Portugal” podcast, hosted by Tony Gonçalves, the New York-based author Katherine Vaz recalled how her first novel, published by a major New York house, was advised against using the word “saudade” in its title. She insisted, and the word found its readers.
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Eugenia Oswaldt left a corporate career to open up Tashca, a modern eatery in Nolita, New York City. She tells Tony Gonçalves the story of how a visa issue led her to change a lucrative career for the hustle of opening up a restaurant.
Eugenia had never imagined herself as an entrepreneur until a visa problem and a flight of the imagination set her on the path to Nolita. The Portuguese-French executive, with years in corporate life across Paris, London and New York, left a tech career to open what was meant to be a Portuguese sandwich shop, a plan that never materialized. The space became something else: a platform for private dining, guest chefs, podcast recordings and a sold-out public night every Thursday, which “only Portuguese soul and New York hustle” could have produced.
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Nuno Marques, the Portuguese pianist who played Carnegie Hall twice and built a festival from scratch, sits down with Tony Gonçalves to explain why he has spent a career carrying Portugal in his hands. Listen to The Heart & Hustle of Portugal.
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Filipe Santos, a Portuguese-American entrepreneur born in Newark, hrecounts a path that began in the tight-knit Portuguese community of his childhood and passed through more than a decade of heroin addiction. Listen to “The Heart & Hustle of Portugal”.
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