Art

José Antônio da Silva at MAC-USP

Exhibition at MAC-USP explores the diversity of José Antônio da...'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

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...

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...
Dreams of an endless Amazon, Encantado (2023), Alessandro Fracta. Photo: Ana Dias

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...
Container Theater

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...
Rio Doce, in the Krenak territory in Resplendor, MG

“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...
View of Nádia Taquary's installation during the 36th São Paulo Biennial © Levi Fanan/Fundação Bienal

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...
Pompidou Paraná. Solano Benítez

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...
Conceptual team 36th São Paulo Biennial

36th Biennial: humanity as practice

The contours of the 36th São Paulo Biennial, which opens its doors to the public on 6th...

Court grants 6 months of stay for the Container Theater in the Center of...

A finalist for the State Governor's Award in 2018, the Mungunzá Container Theater suddenly went from being honored by the government to...
Container Theater

After a police raid, artists occupy the Container Theater to prevent demolition announced by...

After a violent invasion on the afternoon of Tuesday, the 19th, by the Metropolitan Civil Guard (GCM), a police force subordinate to the City of São Paulo, artists, producers, technicians,...

The language of Brazilians

The exhibition "Fala Falar Falares," on display at the Museum of the Portuguese Language until September 14, 09, helps us understand the dimension of the act of speaking. In addition...

Far-right tries to push through Rouanet Law, but intellectuals react

A project reported by Congressman Alexandre Ramagem seizes almost 3 billion in resources from the Rouanet Law, invading the cultural sector's powers.

A semester dedicated to the France-Brazil Partnership

A arte!brasileiros highlights art as an agent of transformation in the France-Brazil 2025 Season, addressing global crises and cultural exchange.

Steam and Concrete: Fluxes, by Laura Vinci

The exhibition Fluxos, by Laura Vinci, presented at the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture (MuBE), in São Paulo, curated by Agnaldo Farias, proposes a reading of her sculptural production that emphasizes, above all, the relationship between volumes and the passage of time.
Piano Concerto with Boxing Gloves

Pinacoteca: 120 years of art in motion

With its original classic profile, Pina is now also establishing itself as a contemporary museum
Astronauts

Spaceships and guerrillas: the tentacles of pop art in Brazil, another idea of...

Exhibition presents a broad panorama of Brazilian art from the 1960s and 1970s

Flaminia Manifesto

Intellectuals from the North of the country saw far in 1927, when they proposed the Flami-n'-Assú, a big flame in Tupi, which eradicated all European influence in national art
Vania Toledo, Madame Satan, 1980

Much more than “happy, clean, well-dressed”

Fullgás, an exhibition with more than 260 artists and collectives at CCBB-SP, revisits the so-called Generation 80 with contextualization, inclusion and diversity

Issue #71 contributors

See who are some of the contributors to issue #71 of arte!brasileiros
Vania Leal

Reports of a trip that defines me as “River Body”

Vânia Leal, curator of the First Amazon Biennial, accompanied the itinerant exhibitions of this edition, which took the project to several cities in the Amazon region.

Music improves mathematics, theater refines text interpretation

This Wednesday, the 25th, in Brasília, for 10 hours, in an immersive journey with the participation of a hundred people – experts and representatives...