People from outside of Bras lia often dismiss Brazil\'s capital as socially divided, boring, corrupt, and emotionally cold.
They are recasting Bras lia as a vibrant city of the arts in which cultural.
These twenty-first-century artists are changing how people think about the city and animating its public spaces.
However, as Sophia Beal argues, Bras lia\'s contemporary artists are out to prove the skeptics wrong.
Apparently its founders created not a vibrant capital, but a cultural wasteland.
People from outside of Bras lia often dismiss Brazil\'s capital as socially divided, boring, corrupt, and emotionally cold