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.
“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...
'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...
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
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
Tatiana Blass: on the threshold of matter and emptiness
Art critic and curator Tadeu Chiarelli writes about Tatiana Blass's new exhibition, "Reviravolta", on display at Galeria Millan
Notes on the Group of Five: a hint of melancholy in the...
Group of Five is a drawing that Anita Malfatti produced in the second half of 1922, a few months after the Modern Art Week. In him,...
