The 60th Venice Biennale and other stories
Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the Italian exhibition, talks about how he emerged into art
Why the war?
In 1932, an exchange of letters between the father of physics, Albert Einstein, and the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, translated the concerns of the two humanist intellectuals in that first third of the 20th century. In the letters, both questioned each other, from perspectives completely different, the reason for the armed conflicts, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.
Culture Wars grow on social media
Why attacks on cultural institutions and works of art are used as instruments of the right, based on algorithms that value hate speech
What can a work of culture, art or criticism do?
A question for Tales Ab'Sáber* João Cezar de Castro Rocha – In his documentary Intervention, Love doesn't mean much, he anticipated much of the horrors...
Film addresses the madness of the evangelization of indigenous people in Javari
Avesso do Céu, by the duo Dias & Riedweg, was filmed in the Javari Reserve, in the far west of the Amazon, and has as its theme the conversion practiced by dozens of neo-Pentecostal churches, even with newly contacted indigenous people
The recreation of a cosmogony
Thiago Martins de Melo develops political work in which he tirelessly denounces necropolitics and the erasure of the history of images by colonization
War, cultural war, art
Read the editorial of issue #66 of arte!brasileiros, by Patricia Rousseaux
Against fundamentalist erasure, the strength of shamans
By Luiz Bolognesi Evangelical, Jesuit, Capuchin and now neo-Pentecostal Protestant violence, which is based on this evangelical Protestant church that comes from the United States...
Repeat. It's good to remember
A series of exhibitions and events recalls 60 years of the military dictatorship, revisiting traumas and legacies and connecting the past to recent threats to democracy
Issue #66 contributors
See who are some of the contributors to issue #66 of arte!brasileiros
An oasis in the semiarid northeast
In Cariri, a cultural center built on the ruins of a seminary and a hospital shows that will, respect and political intelligence can create a lung of art and environmental preservation
Civilization in dispute
Professor and literary critic João Cezar de Castro Rocha talks about the various faces of the far-right discourse: authoritarianism, cultural war and cognitive chaos
The militias of faith, a strategy of power & prejudice
What is there in common between Donald Trump's 'Bible', the narco-Pentecostalism of Complexo do Alemão, the little aunt who wears the Israeli flag on her back in extreme right-wing events and Claudia Leitte's refusal to sing the Afro tradition that made her rich?
Tijuana: violence & culture
With three million inhabitants, the Mexican city, cut off by the wall on the US border, is trying to establish itself as a cultural hub
The university, censorship and cancellations
The growing proscription of literary works in educational institutions is already a reality; institutionalized interdiction may be on the way
In BH, Galeria Albuquerque Contemporânea opens Froiid’s first solo show
Entitled "Mundaréu", Froiid's solo exhibition, on display at Galeria Albuquerque Contemporânea, establishes a dialogue with the writer, actor, journalist and playwright Plínio Marcos...
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Integration is the motto of Inhotim’s programming in 2024
A resumption of monographic projects, solo exhibitions dedicated to specific works by some artists, as well as unique, immersive works that promote compelling experiences. AND...
50 years of achievements
Talent, perseverance and attitude mark the story of Raquel Arnaud, a determined woman, who in the 1970s broke the arrogance of the male world...
Without sugar, with art Without sugar, with culture Without sugar, with affection
In Pernambuco, just an hour and a half from Recife, along a surprisingly well paved road, visitors have access to Usina de Arte...
Venice Biennale announces artists participating in its 60th edition
Curator of the 60th Venice Biennale, Adriano Pedrosa revealed this Tuesday (31) his plans for the exhibition, which will begin in April. Common...
An artist shaped by migrations, affective memories and self-knowledge
Portraits with expressive eyes are a hallmark of Rafael Pereira's production, who until the 20th (Saturday) presents his first solo exhibition at...
Black & prosperous: at Secult de Salvador, Pedro Tourinho wants to go beyond visibility...
About to complete one year of his term as head of the Secretariat of Culture and Tourism (SECULT) of Salvador, Pedro Tourinho is already starting to see...
Female cry
The importance of the Biennale is undeniable in bringing visibility to what the Amazons have designed and produced with artists already established in the arts circuit and others with new productions that are emerging
Radical imagination time
With Decolonize the Museum – program of absolute disorder (Ubu, 2023), French activist and thinker Françoise Vergès makes a precise analysis of the current...
An existential milestone
Collective from seven countries shows the ancestral tradition reflected in the works of 170 artists from original peoples
Places of Memory and resistance
Double exhibition revisits Mario Pedrosa's project to rebuild MAM Rio and articulates a network of cultural rescue and preservation strategies developed by 20 institutions spread across different regions of the country
Northeast
Exhibition with 216 works representing 107 artists from nine states opens, in Recife, a traveling tour of the Banco do Nordeste collection
(Almost) magical world
Institution from Pará holds one of the largest and oldest collections of Amazonian archeology in Brazil and the world
Art without borders
The importance of the Biennale is undeniable in bringing visibility to what the Amazons have designed and produced with artists already established in the arts circuit and others with new productions that are emerging
Poetics of the Imaginary
We spoke with Professor João de Jesus Paes Loureiro, one of the main scholars and formulators of Amazonian cultural thought
Drinking from the fountain
Read the editorial of issue #65 of arte!brasileiros, by Patricia Rousseaux
