Art

Works by César Bahia, gathered in the Laje Collection, and present in the exhibition "Uma poética do Recomeço", at the Rio Art Museum (MAR). Photo: Fabio Cypriano

Laje Collection gains visibility for peripheral production

Present in at least five recent exhibitions, three of which are still on display, the Bahian Acervo da Lage is one of the most original initiatives in...
Lina Bo Bardi in the park

Lina Bo Bardi's project for MAM São Paulo gains exposure

New exhibition at MAM São Paulo presents the renovation project carried out in the early 1980s by Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi. With...
Denilson Baniwa, "The Call of the Wild - Yawareté tapuya", 2023. Photo: Pedro Agilson

Criticism and eroticism temper the exhibition 'Moqueca de husbands'

The gallery A Gentil Carioca arrived in São Paulo a year and a half ago and installed its expanded space in a charming cul-de-sac,...

Seminars arte!brasileiros wins Antônio Bento Award from ABCA

Two certainties guide these meetings: creating bridges and believing that art focuses the knowledge of subjects of their time

Stratagems to resist fascism

With 134 artists and collectives to date (new enlistments are expected throughout its duration, until January 28, 2024), the...
Sculpture Garden

New works arrive at the MAM São Paulo Sculpture Garden

An installation by Amelia Toledo, recently integrated into the collection, and temporary works by Alexandre Brandão, DetanicoLain, Frida Baranek and Raphael Escobar are the new...

Retrospectives

Read the editorial of issue #64 of arte!brasileiros, by Patricia Rousseaux
Artists hold a vigil in front of the headquarters of the Public Ministry of São Paulo due to changes in the notices of the Paulo Gustavo Law Photo: Disclosure

Impasse persists on the issue of the Paulo Gustavo Law notices in São Paulo

A meeting on the morning of this Tuesday, 26th, in São Paulo, between the Secretary of Culture, Economy and Creative Industry of São Paulo, Marília Marton,...
View of the installation "ANTENA IA MBAMBE Mimenekenu Ê lá Tempo!", by Ana Pi and Taata Kwa Nkisi Mutá Imê. Credit: Levi Fanan/Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

35th São Paulo Biennial: Ana Pi

"A dialogue in displacement and between generations": this is how Ana Pi defines the work she developed in partnership with Taata Kwa Nkisi Mutá Imê, priest...
"Lung of the mine", installation by Luana Vitra. Credit: Levi Fanan/Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

35th São Paulo Biennial: Luana Vitra

Iron is the backbone of Luana Vitra's research and magnetizes the installation she created especially for the 35th Biennial of...
The installation "Assembling the history of life", by Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, at the 35th São Paulo Biennial. Photo: Patricia Rousseaux

35th São Paulo Biennial: Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro

The association between diverse art practices and accurate research into colonial violence perpetrated against the material and spiritual culture of origin...
Seu Jovenil holding the portrait of his uncle, Otávio Caetano, cupópia master and community partygoer, undated. Quilombo Cafundó, 35th São Paulo Biennial. Courtesy: CEDAE - Alexandre Eulálio Cultural Documentation Center, State University of Campinas

35th São Paulo Biennial: The dance of the possible

The way we perceive the reality of life in society is dialectically affected by the experiences we develop in it, by the multiplicity of relationships constructed and...
Federal deputy Celia Xakriaba celebrates the decision with elder Isabela Xokleng. Photo: Scarlett Rocha

Historic victory for indigenous peoples: STF overturns the insidious Temporal Framework thesis

The Federal Supreme Court (STF), on the afternoon of this Thursday, 21st, decided to refute, by majority, the Temporal Framework thesis as a criterion for the demarcation...
Representatives of forums, unions and artists' collectives, during a public hearing at the Legislative Assembly

MinC supports artists and reinforces that the Paulo Gustavo Law is for assistance and...

In a public hearing with dozens of artists, producers and culture managers on the afternoon of Wednesday, 20th, at the Legislative Assembly, in the capital of São Paulo,...

Traumas of the slavery regime are addressed in a Hollywood scenario

Exhibition with 12 black artists, 'An ocean to wash your hands' opens Centro Cultural Sesc Quitandinha, in Petrópolis

Forrobodó, or 20 years of A Gentil Carioca

Like few art galleries, A Gentil Carioca transforms its special openings into a huge street party. Last Saturday, it was no different: the...
Wifredo Lam

Jacques Leenhardt analyzes the work of Wifredo Lam

The French philosopher and critic is president of the Association of Friends of Wifredo Lam in Paris, a scholar of the Cuban artist's production

The great choir of black, indigenous and LGBTQIAPN+ voices

With 121 artists and participants, the majority of whom are non-white, Choreographies of the Impossible addresses the ruins of modernity to affirmative action by collectives

Poetry in transit

With an emphasis on collective and transdisciplinary practices, the 35th Bienal de São Paulo calls into question the Eurocentric view of art
“Dos Brasis – Arte e Pensamento Negro” encourages Afro-Brazilian production

“Dos Brasis – Arte e Pensamento Negro” encourages Afro-Brazilian production

  With general curatorship by Igor Simões, the exhibition brings together 240 artists from all Brazilian states who present works in different artistic languages. A...

At Galeria Estação, “Reversos e Transversos” seeks to dissolve the dichotomy between popular and erudite art

Curated by Ayrson Heráclito, the exhibition establishes parallels between popular artists segregated by the art system and established names, with whom they maintain approximations, in different biennials, over seven decades

To forget? Never! To remember? Ever!

In his book Sculpting Time, Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) reminded us that: "time constitutes a condition of the existence of our...
School of Communications and Arts (ECA). Photo: Marcos Santos/ USP Images

ECA visual arts students plan to start protests against USP from...

Due to a lack of teachers, the Visual Arts course at the School of Communications and Arts (ECA) at the University of São Paulo canceled 11 subjects a week ago...
Fernando Leite, Mira

Fernando Leite uses photography as a guide for his creation

Fernando Leite is on display at Paço Imperial, in downtown Rio de Janeiro, with his individual exhibition, Ex-Otica. The show is curated by...
Marta Minujín and Andy Warhol in the photoperformance "El paga de la deuda externa argentina con maíz, 'el oro latinoamericano'" (1985). Photo: Leonor Amarante

Marta Minujín live and in full color

The transforming dimension of art creates characters that stand out from the rest for their creative force and inexhaustible continuity. Marta Minujin: Live, on display...

The modernist lady?

Which led me to read the entire biographical novel by Luiza Lobo, Fábrica de Lies: from Vale do Café to Arco...
Work from the exhibition "Entre-tejidos", El Cercado. Photo: Disclosure

a collaborative network

BIENALSUR crosses national and international borders with the aim of bringing to light actions centered on urgent issues
NFT

The museum belongs to the artists

The director of the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Carolyn Christoph-Bakargiev announces retirement to 'have time to think'
Cover of the book "Cultural Emergencies: Institutions, Creators and Communities in Brazil and Mexico" (Edusp), edited by Néstor García Canclini

Urgent agendas

Recently released by Edusp, 'Cultural Emergencies' investigates the changes in relations between cultural institutions, public policies and artists accelerated by the pandemic
portrait of Rugendas

Concrete

Representation has already been in question throughout a History of Western Art, and its annihilation has already been a goal in favor of a pure, technical art, free of iconographic narrative. Concretism, as an artistic movement, reinforced the forms, planes, colors, materials, spatiality, and, mainly, the non-subjectivity of art as art-itself