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
Recently launched, Projeto Lorenzato has already cataloged around 300 works by...
Last month, the Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato Project was launched, which seeks to identify and catalog the works of the artist from Minas Gerais on a digital, continuous and...
history lab
In contrast to archaic visions of our past, the new Ipiranga Museum celebrates material culture, with a project that includes tactile resources and massive use of audiovisual By Maria HirSzman
The abandonment of Valongo
On the pier built in 1811, in Rio, to receive thousands of enslaved people, and where important archaeological records were found, the strategy of dismantling policies to combat racism and inequality reigns.
The cangaço yesterday and today
Book "Bled memories: life and death in the times of the cangaço", by Ricardo Beliel, brings together photos and testimonies recorded by the journalist over the years touring the northeastern hinterland
Paris: restoration and culture of memory
At a time of relative respite from the pandemic that has been plaguing us for almost two years, Paris took the opportunity to present some of its novelties with contemporary jewelry.
Debate monuments: should we tear them down?
Fire at the Borba Gato statue, in São Paulo, reignites discussion about monuments, check out some points of this debate
Mapping the roles of subversion
In a curious paradox, the police files gathered by the State Department of Political and Social Order of São Paulo (Deops) in order to...
Guy Brett: an extraordinary “ordinary” life
About a month after the death of the British critic and curator Guy Brett, Chilean curator Alexia Tala writes about the personality and thought of one of the most important figures for the diffusion of Latin American art, especially Brazilian art, in European lands.
Between real and metaphorical fires
The work “Open Night”, by Thiago Rocha Pitta, opens the Interventions Program at MAM Rio and honors the National Museum on the two-year anniversary of the fire that devastated Rio’s space
