Joseph Beuys and the abandonment to art
One of the most radical and influential artists of the second half of the 20th century, an unavoidable reference for contemporary production, would be 100 years old in 2021; The arte!brasileiros publishes a text that analyzes different moments and works in the trajectory of the German artist
Breaking the complicity between the aesthetic and the colonial device: art...
Márcio Seligmann-Silva analyzes narratives about the history of Afro-descendant Brazilian art, which involves a series of traumatic repetitions over time
The boycott of Grada Kilomba in the official Portuguese representation of the Bienal...
By Ana Teixeira Pinto* On November 11, 2021, DGARTES (Direção Geral das Artes) announced the result of the competition for the...
Artist collectives reflect the spirit of the times
Both the choice of five collectives as nominees for the Turner Prize, in 2021, and the announcement of 14 collectives as the first participants of the...
A critic
Bitu Cassundé, Clarissa Diniz and Marcelo Campos write a response to the criticism by Aracy Amaral, published in ARTE!Brasileiros 47
Matarazzo City, contemporary art and neoliberalism
Based on the luxurious real estate project being built in São Paulo, the curator and researcher points to the dangerous use of contemporary art by neoliberal logic, questions the capitalist model that claims to “defend” diversity and discusses the precariousness of labor relations.
50 years of MASP on Avenida Paulista
*By Fábio Magalhães This November, the MASP building, designed by Lina Bo Bardi, turned 50 years old. Today it is an icon of the city...
Is art without class struggle just decoration?
For some decades, a new ethical position has emerged in artists who work with struggles of groups and communities that are not part of hegemonic systems.
Anthropophagy versus modernism
In the contrast between the two movements, it is important to recover the debate around the visual arts and the memory of Oswaldo Costa, an important critic of culture and art in the second half of the 20s, in São Paulo
Lygia Clark by Yve-Alain Bois
In the context of the exhibition "Lygia Clark (1920-1988) 100 years", at Pinakotheke Cultural, the arte!brasileiros publishes excerpts from essays by French curator and art historian Yve-Alain Bois, who recalls his experience with the famous Brazilian artist
