populist tarsila

Tadeu Chiarelli writes about the exhibition "Tarsila Popular", on display at MASP
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...

Artists of African descent in Brazilian art: presence/absence?

In a new text in his column, the critic and curator Tadeu Chiarelli focuses on the virtual absence of black artists in the hegemonic history of art in Brazil, especially from the second half of the XNUMXth century onwards.

Hilma af Klint: An artist ahead of her time

Science, religion and art integrate the cosmogony of Hilma af Klint, in her first exhibition at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo

The sensual poetic in Cícero Dias

Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte, in SP, makes a retrospective of the artist

Agenda of the art world in the pandemic

How the Coronavirus has affected the art world and the reactions of some cultural institutions to the crisis
Eduardo Saron has been in charge of Itaú Cultural since 2002

Director of Itaú Cultural is chosen as a highlight in the award of the...

At the head of the institution for 15 years, Eduardo Saron will be the great honoree of the Governor of the State Award for Culture 2018. Secretary of Culture supports the choice
Vertical, color photo. Portrait of Grada Kilomba

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...

Pombagiras and the Crowd of Women

*By Maria Gabriela Saldanha On this March 8, with the conservative advance that spreads hatred of minorities, responding for the intensification of the persecution of religions...
Paulo Mendes da Rocha at his office window in downtown São Paulo. Photo: Luiza Sigulem

Paulo Mendes da Rocha and the broad sense of architecture

In the context of his death, we recall an interview given by the architect to arte!brasileiros in 2016. In it, the architect criticizes the construction of Brasília, the discourse of “green architecture”, the idea of ​​popular housing and the educational system; talks about nature, art and urbanism and shows that an architect must be, more than a specialist, a thinker of the world