Brazilian landscape designer Burle Marx married the formal innovations of European modernism with the bursting palette of plants native to Brazil.

Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx. Through Sept. 29 at the New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx; 718-817-8700, nybg.org.

So said the great Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994), who not only transformed landscape design in the 20th century but also became famous for the generosity of the ...

The Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) worked in a variety of artistic mediums, from painting and sculpture to graphic design and mosaics.

The Brazilian modernist Roberto Burle Marx liked to tell the story of his arrival in Berlin in the late 1920s as a young man, in the German capital to steep himself in European culture.

The garden has long served as an inspiring subject for art, and as a setting for art in the form of ornamental and monumental sculpture. The Museum of Modern Art this summer has on view an ...

A new exhibit at New York’s Jewish Museum demonstrates the late Brazilian landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx’s influence on today’s contemporary artists, including distinguished painter ...

We arrived in Rio a little later than expected because of a delay in Houston. Someone had flushed a blanket down the toilet causing the plane to be put out of servi… ...

Burle Marx’s Japanese collaborator, Haruyoshi Ono, used to recall how Roberto would sing old German songs by Schubert, Schumann and so forth to guests at his famous sitio, or country estate ...

Roberto Burle Marx may not be a household name, but he's one of three modernists who helped remake Brazil in 20th century. Among his projects: Avenidea Atlantica, running along Copacabana Beach.