Sexuality: a singular construction
It is with a dialogue between a gardener and a botanist that I begin today. This dialogue is reported by psychoanalyst Nathalie Zaltzman in her text “Do...
“Monument to the Flags”, by Brecheret: the present past
Victor Brecheret's Monument to the Flags, also known as Push-Push and Let Me Push, is over a hundred years old, if we take...
Finlandization of education
Before the fall of the wall, it was common to use the expression “Finlandization” to describe a process of defense depending on a very...
Tarsila's self-portraits, part II: the “Achiropita” image
After analyzing Tarsila do Amaral's first self-portraits, the critic Tadeu Chiarelli publishes a text in which he talks about a second period of the artist's work, in which her portraits abandon the reference to the Spanish "paquitas" and start to dialogue with sumptuous images of the Catholic tradition.
Luz del Fuego and the “My body, my rules”
She was pure irreverence. Born 101 years ago and raised to reproduce the values of the traditional family, Dora Vivacqua took other directions. Not because...
2018 should define Inhotim's destiny
In a very difficult year in the visual arts scene, marked by censorship and idiotic protests, 2017 ended with bad news:...
The presence of mystery in São Bernardo
He atomized and imploded everyone. I repeat, to him and to all. The energy was gigantic. Nuclear immanence and immanence. And everything vibrated...
Essay on the “Brazilian Crude” in Philosophy and the Arts
It is possible that ten or fifteen years from now, art historians will characterize this period, between 2016 and 2022, as the heyday of the "Brazilian Tosco"
the March shots
Fifty years before Marielle's execution, the murder of student Edson Luís stopped Rio de Janeiro
1961, the year that parliamentarism in Brazil
Regime imposed by the military to limit the powers of President João Goulart lasted just 17 months and has already been rejected in two plebiscites.
