Malê resistance and Mangueira's samba

Muslim slaves literate in Arabic who led the uprising in Bahia in 1835 will be honored at Rio Carnival 2019

Children's Digital Intoxication

Any reformulation of technologies invites the reconstruction of our ways of caring for and educating children. We fear for its deleterious effects and dream of...

João Câmara and the “true” Brazilian art

A visit to the artist's exhibition at the Afro Brasil Museum becomes important for all those who believe that politicized art should be more political than art.

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
In front, "Museu do Homem do Nordeste", by Jonathas de Andrade, in the background works by Candido Portinari, Almeida Junior and Paulo Nazareth. Photo: Levi Fanan / Collection of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo

Is art without class struggle just decoration?

For some decades, a new ethical position has emerged in artists who work with struggles of groups and communities that are not part of hegemonic systems.
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Boca Maldita, the stronghold of free manifestation in Curitiba

Space hosted the first major rally by Diretas Já, an essential movement for the end of the military dictatorship

The former MAM, the MAC USP and the ex-banker's collection

Former director of MAC USP, Tadeu Chiarelli draws in his column a parallel between the creation of the museum, in 1963, from the donation of the collection of the former MAM-SP, and the recent period in which the museum was responsible for guarding the Collection Santos Bank
Antonio Banderas and Elena Anaya in a scene from the movie The Skin I Live In

Whose is the woman's body?

In the current of violence – situations of harassment, abuse, rapes and femicides –, the feminine as 'other' is erased, blurred by the 'colonialist' appropriation of women's bodies, and the masculine reaffirms itself as 'hegemonic masculinity'.

Formalization and Temporality in Museums

 Curatorship as conflicting symbolic systems, 2] Aesthetic form and social contradiction Abstract I intend to show how mediation practices invite the encounter with the work...

To empower women (and black people)

We cannot expect the mere passage of time to promote real equality for our fellow countrymen.