Art

Counter-hegemonic practices in hegemonic contexts

Educator Gleyce Heitor advocates initiatives such as acting on the public dimension of cultural institutions, with policies of free access, mobility and belonging, among others
Make love

Dialogues between territory and time

Curated by Nicolas Soares, artist and director of the Espírito Santo Art Museum (MAES) and architect and researcher Clara Pignaton, the Vale Museum opens, under the general coordination of Claudia Afonso, the exhibition Transitar o Tempo, as part of its “Extramuros Program”

Theater demolished by the City of São Paulo holds hearing at the Legislative Assembly

Destroyed on February 13th by São Paulo City Hall tractors, the Ventoforte Theater is fighting tirelessly to rebuild itself. Next...
Kilomba Grada

Back at Inhotim for The Boat – Act II, Grada Kilomba delves deeper into...

Grada Kilomba is the happiest artist in the world. At least that's how she felt after the first performance of O Barco...
Nuno Ramos

Nuno Ramos: 'My career is one of enormous stylistic diversity'

Nuno Ramos, the curious, the intrepid, with a latent energy that translates into matter, returns to Belo Horizonte (MG) in March, in an exhibition at...

Practices to make room for other stories

A critical overview of the thinking of Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, curator of the 36th São Paulo Biennial, based on his work at the Casa das Culturas do Mundo, a German institution he has directed since 2023

Benítez writes poetry on the Beaubourg extension

Benítez stands out for placing clay at the heart of his architectural design

Kentridge exposes creative process in masterpiece

On MUBI, the South African artist's series Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot is a 'hymn to artistic freedom'
Cildo Meireles

'Style is the joy of the market, but the death of the artist'

The recent million-dollar auction of Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian at Sotheby's is a starting point for Cildo Meireles to remember and reflect on his career

The surreal as a counterpoint to the neoliberal

Renata Lucas' exhibition at Estação Pinacoteca reviews 20 years of the artist's work and highlights hallmarks of her poetics such as the subversion of spaces and the need for negotiation
Bonaventure Ndikung

Cross pollinations

“The role of the artist is to ask questions,” says Bonaventure Ndikung, in an interview in which he talks about the project for the 36th São Paulo Biennial

Issue #69 contributors

See who are some of the contributors to issue #69 of arte!brasileiros
GES-2 House of Culture. Photo: Anya Todich

In Russia, Videobrasil explores intersections between video and performance

Despite the thousands of kilometers separating Brazil and Russia and the cultural traits that are so distinct between the countries, there is no need for any type of...
Clariô, Severina Show

Clariô and the fight for a theater in the periphery, by the periphery and for the...

“We built ourselves within the periphery, within the peripheral movement. We are a black theater group.” The phrase said by Naloana Lima to arte!brasileiros...
Luciana Casagrande Pereira

Paraná culture creates events with international impact

The architect Luciana Casagrande Pereira from Paraná represents a generation of women who have achieved prominent positions in the public sphere. Her delicate appearance and...
Tiago Santana

Mirante Institute pilots cultural and social advances in Ceará

Photographer, born in Cariri (Ceará) into a family with strong political involvement, Tiago Santana, 58, is one of the most renowned authors to...
Jean-Michel Othoniel at MON

Glass as essence

The exhibition “The Eye of the Night”, by Jean-Michel Othoniel, curated by Marc Pottier, celebrates the 22nd anniversary of the Oscar Niemeyer Museum and strengthens...
SP Art Brazilian Routes

Visual arts go to the front

Until next Wednesday, December 11, the country's visual arts sector will be on red alert. The president of the Federal Senate, Rodrigo...
Work from the series 'Land Exhaustion (2024), by Luana Vitra

At the Museu Paranaense, Luana Vitra exhibits the metallic and poetic metaphysics that she extracts from...

In her critical text for the exhibition Aos espíritos minerals, by Luana Vitra, at the Museu Paranaense, singer Anelis Assunção recalls that, "growing up on...

Zerbini at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum: nostalgia for silence

In November 2024, in celebration of the 22nd anniversary of the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (MON), the exhibition “Affinities III – Cochicho” was inaugurated. Curated by...
New MASP

New MASP: a courageous project, it finds its way on a tightrope between...

By Pedro Mendes da Rocha Thinking about the MASP Annex I heard some criticisms of the project and I want to say that I really liked it. In...
curators of the exhibition “Thomaz Farkas - Beauty before the eyes”.

Thomaz Farkas: in love with Brazil and Brazilians

By: Simonetta Persichetti and Rubens Fernandes Junior Getting to know Brazil through the eyes of Thomaz Farkas (1924-2011) is always an enriching experience. A careful look,...
Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) of Curitiba

Curitiba will gain an extension to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in 2025

A new museum space is set to arrive in Curitiba (PR) in 2025, in the wake of an unprecedented urban innovation project: the Fábrica complex...

Learn to rewind

Read the editorial of issue #68 of arte!brasileiros, by Patricia Rousseaux

Migrant Art Gallery

Foreword - Boycott of the Triumphal Entry: Painting as a Transmitter of Coloniality
Clay Museum

Memory policies: the genesis of the Museo del Barro

Director of the institution, Lia Colombino spoke about the contexts that led to the founding of the museum; debaters sought analogies with the proposal for the Museum of Origins, by Mario Pedrosa
Panorama of Brazilian Art

By Fire and Iron

Panorama of the Museum of Modern Art of SP, held for the first time at MAC USP, addresses practices that diverge from hegemonic standards
Dona Romana

Mil Graus focuses on the creative power of the streets

Panorama of the Museum of Modern Art of SP, held for the first time at MAC-USP, addresses practices that diverge from hegemonic standards

Weaving another story

Simultaneous exhibitions investigate African knowledge and practices, comparing past and present and proposing new paths for research and contemporary art
Dandara

Dandara: between legend and resistance

The construction of a black heroine and art as a counternarrative

Unlearn imperialism and repair

In 'Potential History', artist and academic Ariella Aïsha Azoulay proposes new ways of rethinking the colonialist mode based on concepts such as unlearning and repairing, opposing the notion of progress
Black Backlands

Sertão Negro Studio and School of Arts: a project for the future in the center of Brazil

Artistic-cultural space in the capital of Goiás proposes dialogues between visual arts, backlands and the cerrado based on traditional knowledge of Afro-Brazilian and African origins