We are deeply saddened. This week, we lost Aracy Amaral in the early morning of September 15, 2026, at the age of 96. A critic, curator, and art historian, the greatest reference in Brazilian art who lived through our time, Aracy was an inexhaustible force of observation and research. A professor, writer, and curator, she left us a legacy on Brazilian modernism and, in recent years, a deep dive into contemporary art in dialogue with Latin America.
Yesterday, a young artist from São Paulo, Rodrigo Cass, 43, died in an accidental drowning on Copacabana beach. Rodrigo was experiencing a period of international recognition, with recent exhibitions at the Nevada Museum of Art in the United States and at the Catholic University of Portugal. We were also able to see him at the opening of the 39th Panorama of Brazilian Art exhibition at MAM SP, where he is participating with a series of seven videos and paintings that can be seen until January 2027.
There were almost 100 editions celebrating Lygia Clark, Tunga, Hélio Oiticica, Alex Flemming, Waltercio Caldas, Arnaldo Antunes, Cildo Meirelles, León Ferrari, Glauco Rodrigues, Francisco Brennand, Thomaz Farkas, Carlito Carvalhosa, Regina Silveira, Mario Cravo Neto, Henrique Oliveira, Antônio Dias, Ailton Krenak, Marcelo Moscheta, Beatriz Milhazes, Alex Vallauri, Marcius Galán, José Resende, Rivane Neuenschwander, Denilson Baniwa, Cícero Alves dos Santos (Veio), Francisco Graciano, Nelson Leirner, Daniel Senise, José Rufino, Adriana Varejão, Arthur Bispo do Rosário, Lucia Koch, Angela Detanico, Rafael Lain, Gustavo Caboco, Claudia Andújar, Ernesto Neto, Jac Leirner, Sergio Sister, Marcia Xavier, Rosana Paulino, Rosângela Rennó, Antônio Obá, Chico da Silva, José Antonio da Silva, Abdias Nascimento, Lucas Arruda, Paulo Pasta, Nazareth Pacheco, Arjan Martins, Ge Viana, Dalton Paula, Lia de Castro. All of them, and those we have forgotten here, have been remembered many times in exhibitions, interviews, national and international shows, and in their participation in Brazilian and foreign institutions.
Since 2023, we have taken a step towards decentralizing our editorial work. We reached out to Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Ceará, Pará, Maranhão, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and now we will reach out to Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul.
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This exhibition presents Fabio Cypriano's perspective on the Pinacoteca do Ceará and his stay at the Centro Cultural do Cariri. Maria Hirszman traveled to Berlin at the invitation of the 36th São Paulo Biennial to accompany one of its traveling exhibitions. We comment on curator José Augusto Ribeiro's text about the exhibition. A New Language At Galeria Estação, Leonor Amarante interviewed Antonio Somaini, curator of the exhibition. The World Through AI, currently showing at Sesc 24 de Maio, and also writes about Alex Flemming's return to Brazil after three decades in Berlin. Curator Tálisson Melo comments on the reopening of MAM São Paulo and analyzes the exhibition of the 39th Panorama of Brazilian Art, curated by Diane Lima, “After everything has been said".
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