Catastrophe, tragedy and disaster as clinical and aesthetic categories
The Greek radical katá refers to the movement from top to bottom, opposite, therefore, to the movement of asceticism or elevation. Assimilation, or metabolism, is opposed to catabolism, as a process of...
The vertigo of the popular in the work of Luiz Braga, by Henry...
My choice for the Amazon is simple and natural, I steer clear of the stereotypes and fads that nullify those who live there and make its history....
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...
A centenary passing in white clouds
A look at the friendship between Ismael Nery and Murilo Mendes, which began in 1921, demonstrates that there is still much to be studied and written about the particular development of surrealism in Brazil.
The collapse of culture
The destruction strategy persists even in the final days, with rigging and boycotts; it will be up to the new government to work together to recover the sector
The extinction of borders is what defines change
* By Bernardo José de Souza Borders establish limits between one space and another, or between something and something else. By demarcating territories, they...
an exhausted country
For those who recognize and feel in their bodies the gravity of the crisis experienced in Brazil, in its various dimensions, it is increasingly common to feel exhausted.
Sidney Amaral: Between affirmation and immolation
Tadeu Chiarelli writes about the artist Sidney Amaral, who died in 2017, with an emphasis on his self-portraits
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
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
