Detail of a work by Minas Gerais artist Sonia Gomes, present at the 35th São Paulo Biennial. Photo: Eduardo Simões

Dear Patricia or… This is what art is

In this article, Tadeu Chiarelli uses a document from the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), who frequently wrote his criticisms as letters to the editor.
"The Raising of Lazarus" (1928), by Anita Malfatti. Courtesy: São Paulo Museum of Sacred Art

“I’m sorry, Anita dear”

In September 1928, back in São Paulo after five years in Paris, Anita Malfatti came across the city's cultural stagnation. Marasmus...

The modernist lady?

Which led me to read the entire biographical novel by Luiza Lobo, Fábrica de Lies: from Vale do Café to Arco...

Art and Artificial Intelligence: Before Embracing or Refusing, Maybe We Should...

Since our entry into the XNUMXst century, we have followed the rapid pace of technology that dominates our daily lives. Among those who only see negative points...

Podcast 'O Ateliê' addresses allegations of abusive relationships in the...

Behind the scenes of a slice of the world of visual arts gained unexpected reach thanks to the podcast O Ateliê, a project by journalist Chico Felitti. At the...

'The decolonial turn in Brazilian art': Considerations to stir up the debate

The reading of The decolonial turn in Brazilian art (Editora Mireveja), by Alessandra Simões Paiva –, brought up several questions that, although related to...

Manuel Querino. Because Salvador is not Florence

In the April 1917 issue of Revista do Brasil, Monteiro Lobato began a review of the book Artists Baianos, authored by the man who even...
Portrait of Raphael Galvez, in the studio on Rua Lopes de Oliveira, in the 1980s

Petit maître

Art critic and professor Tadeu Chiarelli lists reasons to read the recently released autobiography of sculptor and painter Raphael Galvez

On the President's good looks

Research pointed out that 27% of Bolsonaro voters would vote for him for his personal image; Tadeu Chiarelli writes on the subject

the obscene of the image

Not all photography is restorative as intended, for example, the Berlin Biennale, when exhibiting a work with records of prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib, Iraq