Every moment is crucial.
The France-Brazil Season brings to the Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS), in São Paulo, an exhibition with previously unseen photographs by Agnès Varda and investigates the profound relationship between her photography and cinema.
Pinacoteca do Ceará rethinks its collection in Parallel Existences
The exhibition, curated collaboratively, presents 484 works by 63 artists, many of whom are not part of the institution's collection.
MAM RIO celebrates the centenary of Gilberto Chateaubriand.
With 350 works on display until February 1, 2026, the exhibition honors a collector who died three years ago and left 6.400 pieces on loan to the museum.
The critical dimension of Debret and contemporary reinterpretations
At the Ipiranga Museum in São Paulo, “Debret in Question – Contemporary Perspectives” brings together engravings by Jean-Baptiste Debret and reinterpretations by contemporary artists, curated by French sociologist and art critic Jacques Leenhardt and Brazilian researcher and curator Gabriela Longman.
Luck, ritual and prayer
Antonio Obá presents paintings, drawings, and installations that explore symbols of luck and chance in Brazilian culture at the Mendes Wood DM gallery in São Paulo.
Art in transit
In an interview, Tadeu Chiarelli discusses the upcoming release of 'Appropriations' and 'Brazilian Art', analyzes the dialogue between past and present in Brazilian art, and the role of the art critic and historian.
Brazilian artists participated in the Brazil-France 2025 season.
In Brazil, Emílio Kalil, the director-superintendent of the Iberê Camargo Foundation, was appointed as curator for the Brazil-France Season.
The importance of cultivating a relationship.
After months of intense national and international activity, we spoke with Anne Louyot, commissioner of the France-Brazil Season 2025, about the experience and conclusions of the Season's program in Brazil.
Contributors #73
Patricia Rousseaux is the editorial director of Arte!BrasileirosShe covered the France-Brazil 2025 Season and organized this special edition together with the A4 agency, which was invited to coordinate...
José Antônio da Silva: Modern, not primitive.
José Antônio da Silva, one of the leading interpreters of life and culture in the interior of São Paulo, was often considered "primitive" by...
Exhibition at MAC-USP explores the diversity of José Antônio da Silva's work.
More than one hundred paintings by the artist are on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art of USP. The exhibition is titled José Antônio da Silva: Painting the...
Maria Bonomi: a constant reinvention
The exhibition Maria Bonomi: the art of loving, the art of resisting, on display at the Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro, invites the visitor...
Edgar Calel moves mountains and transports Guatemalan culture to Inhotim.
Following his success at the 2023 São Paulo Biennial, the artist from the Kaqchiqel-Maya people returns to Brazil for a large immersive exhibition, reconstructing his cultural and family universe at the institution in Minas Gerais.
Why talk about mangroves?
Between land and sea, the mangrove swamp is a place of transition. From Oiapoque, in Amapá, to Laguna, in Santa Catarina, the mangrove swamps...
Between the street and the museum
Loli World – A world beyond Urban Art, by Michael Devis, brings together 25 recent works by the artist from Curitiba, which transpose into space...
Where there is fear there is strength: at Sesc Belenzinho, Nádia Taquary presents a set...
Nádia Taquary graduated in Literature, but soon embarked on the path of art education. It was during a period of personal retreat that she came into contact...
A river does not exist alone: artists reflect on belonging and interdependence in the Amazon
In the heart of Belém, the Zoobotanical Park of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi becomes, until December 30th, a territory for listening and coexistence between...
No one can with me: between the wound and the healing
“Nobody can come with me” – a title that borrows the name of a plant that simultaneously protects and poisons – is the...
Contributors #72
MARIA HIRSZMAN is a journalist and art critic. She worked for Jornal da Tarde and O Estado de São Paulo. She is a researcher in history...
The critic's wall
"On this wall are some of the works I keep in my home. I donated others to MAR, the Rio Art Museum." The...
The Biennial whispers but not everyone hears
In its 36th edition, which opened in early September, the São Paulo Biennial reaffirms its role as a disseminator of artistic production that...
EXHIBITION OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES IN BRAZILIAN CULTURE ARRIVES IN VITÓRIA – ES
The Vale Museum is one of the main cultural spaces in the state of Espírito Santo and, in its extramural period, it expands its presence in the territory...
Of the spiritual in art
"My paintings are both reality and desire, both learning and imagination. They are a reflection of the environment that formed me and, at the same time, a projection of...
The fury and battles of Niki de Saint Phalle
Visionary, explosive, and revolutionary, Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002) turned 20th-century art upside down. Her works, marked by explosions of color...
In its second edition, the Amazon Biennial reverberates the forest
Gateway to the Amazon, a port city marked by the confluence of peoples and cultures, Belém, in Pará, opens itself to art. It is in this...
Poetry in confluence inspires the 7th International Sertão Biennial
With the same nomadic spirit that has characterized it since its creation in 2012, the 7th International Sertão Biennial will be inaugurated in Diamantina...
Absurd: São Paulo City Hall demolishes building stuck to a container
Ignoring a court injunction, on the morning of Monday the 22nd, a demolition company entered the buildings attached to the Mungunzá Container Theater, in...
“Indigenous culture does not fit into patrimonialist thinking”
Men am-ním is the approximate translation, in the language of the Krenak people, for the Portuguese word “Occupation” – in fact, the indigenous word is used...
Lack of context confuses 36th São Paulo Biennial
Not every traveler walks the roads – from Humanity as practice, the 36th São Paulo Biennial, open to the public on September 6, has...
Solano Benítez and the reunion of the lands
Among colleagues: Pedro Mendes da Rocha's assessment Solano Benítez's project for the Brazilian headquarters of the Centre Pompidou makes us reflect on...
Museum springs from the region's soil
Between avenues, bricks and biomes, the center pompidou paraná unites the essence of the place and global projection.
Photo studio as resistance
BY LEONOR AMARANTE Photographer Luiza Segulem doesn't limit herself to recording bodies in motion: she challenges the logic of the gaze in a set of...
