Inhotim celebrates its 20th anniversary and invites teachers to a critical reflection on its collection.
In the 14th edition of Decentralizing Access, now with national reach, the museum reaffirms its commitment to education by treating its own collection as an object of research.
Everything you didn't know about Freedom
An exhibition at the Ipiranga Museum retraces the trajectories of the different ethnic groups that have inhabited the famous São Paulo neighborhood since its creation and reignites the debate about the symbolism of the place for Black people.
The day June refuses to end.
On the day dedicated to the protector of Bumba Meu Boi, São Luís transforms memory into a procession and makes the month last an extra day.
When art takes over the landscape.
Located in Vila Velha, a municipality in the metropolitan region of Vitória, the Casa do Governador Cultural Park brings together contemporary art, nature, and education in one of the most important Brazilian experiences in audience development and artistic enjoyment in an open space.
At the Prada Foundation, Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince in "Helter Skelter"
In a Biennale marked by the strength of the main exhibition, national pavilions lose momentum, while parallel exhibitions in Venice broaden debates on race, coloniality, appropriation of images, and disputes over memory.
"Surrealisms": an exhibition beyond the obvious.
The new São Paulo location of the Pinakotheke Gallery presents one of the most important retrospectives on Surrealism. Luiza Lorenzetti and Patricia Rousseaux interview curator Tadeu Chiarelli.
When less is more
In minor keys, the exhibition, curated by Koyo Kouoh, the first African woman to oversee the Venice Biennale, features 110 artists in a show that draws on magical realism as a reference point.
The Venice 2026 jury shows that it is necessary to set limits.
Refusing to award prizes to countries with leaders accused of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court is a necessary example.
Imagine a voice you've never heard before.
This text was produced for the catalog of the 61st Venice Biennale at the request of its curator, Koyo Kouoh, who passed away on May 10, 2025.
A tribute to Koyo
In an edition marked by political disputes and new boundaries, the magazine explores the Venice Biennale, the Curitiba Biennale, the new Pinakotheke in São Paulo, and the Latin American exhibitions at MASP.
Thresholds: the Curitiba Biennial transforms borders into territories of encounter.
The 16th Curitiba International Biennial investigates territories where borders are zones of openness.
Latin America at the center of narratives in five exhibitions at MASP.
Since 2016, the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) has organized its programming around major thematic areas, such as Indigenous Histories (2023), Histories...
Contributors #75
See who are some of the contributors to issue #75 of arte!brasileiros
Researchers decipher Persian inscription at Rio's Municipal Theater after 117 years.
The phrase in the Assyrian Hall of the Rio de Janeiro theater, as well as the motifs coined at the beginning of the 20th century by a company that also worked on the Eiffel Tower, salutes the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes.
Cais das Artes, a new cultural center in Espírito Santo, presents the exhibition Amazônia, by...
By Giuliano de Miranda. Designed by the architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha from Espírito Santo, the Cais das Artes (Arts Wharf) began construction in 2010, with an initial forecast...
Surrealism: art beyond reason
Curator Tadeu Chiarelli discusses the inaugural exhibition at the new Pinakotheke location.
The Human Anthill of Pau da Bandeira
By Bibiana Belisário There is a curious fact about leafcutter ants: despite their small size, they are able to transport leaves, bark, branches, and plant fragments that...
Nice Avanza returns to the Espírito Santo Art Museum in an exhibition that revisits...
By Giuliano de Miranda Twenty-six years after the retrospective dedicated to his work by the Espírito Santo Art Museum Dionísio Del Santo...
Curators interpret the "THRESHOLDS" of the 16th Curitiba Biennial.
The 16th Curitiba International Biennial returns to an in-person format at a time marked by profound technological, social, and environmental transformations. Under the concept...
The Ethnomedia Exhibition proposes new perspectives on indigenous art, which is established among...
At a time when Indigenous art is increasingly present in Brazilian cultural institutions, the third edition of the Indigenous Ethnomedia Exhibition...
Ana Botafogo: "the classical ballerina in the land of football"
Itaú Cultural's exhibition pays homage to the artist who helped popularize classical ballet in Brazil.
La Chola Poblete challenges the system.
In the exhibition La Chola Poblete – Pop Andino, currently on display at MASP, the viewer's gaze is immediately challenged. More than just exhibiting works,...
Pinacoteca revisits the work of Paulo Pedro Leal, an artist who denounced the contradictions of...
Rio de Janeiro, 1950s and 1960s. The "marvelous city" was undergoing changes: it was becoming increasingly gentrified, excluding the people who built it...
Nobody can mess with me: Brazil at the Venice Biennale
The 61st Venice Biennale opens to the public on May 9th. The Brazilian Pavilion will feature works by Rosana...
Lázaro Roberto: "Photography gave me racial awareness"
One afternoon in Salvador, curator Hélio Menezes was at the headquarters of the Zumví Afro-Photographic Archive in Pelourinho when someone knocked on the door...
Paulista Avenue hosts the largest and most ambitious exhibition of Mestre Didi.
The Bahian artist-priest, who died in 2013, re-established an artistic dialogue with the legacy of Nagô culture and undertook a dizzying study of forms based on Candomblé.
The private is political: a militant art in the Verbund collection.
Exhibition at MAC showcases feminist and experimental art gathered in the Verbund collection from Austria.
Casa Brasil opens with decolonial and feminist works.
Shared curation selects works by artists from across the country, in tune with current debates, including productions by users of mental health institutions.
Vassouras Museum opens in dialogue with the territory.
An institution created by collector Ronaldo Cesar Coelho in the interior of Rio de Janeiro focuses on the region's context beyond the coffee cycle.
Grada Kilomba works with horrors for which we have no language.
Every night, Grada Kilomba plays the piano with her youngest daughter. While Grada plays the rhythm section, her daughter improvises over it. The...
Casa Brasil opens with decolonial and feminist works.
Shared curation selects works by artists from across the country, in tune with current debates, including productions by users of mental health institutions.
Urban challenge for downtown São Paulo
The city of São Paulo will gain a new Sesc next June. This is already a cause for celebration, given its well-known impact...
