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

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.

Art critic and curator Tadeu Chiarelli writes about Tatiana Blass's new exhibition, "Reviravolta", on display at Galeria Millan

Bringing new perspectives to the debate on São Paulo's modernism, Tadeu Chiarelli discusses the first self-portraits by Tarsila do Amaral that, until now, have not received due attention.

The critic and columnist of arte!brasileiros Tadeu Chiarelli concludes his series of articles on Tarsila do Amaral’s self-portraits by analyzing these images that would become icons of the artist’s production and, ultimately, of São Paulo’s modernism.

“Taking into account the level of its historiographical and critical reach, I understood that I was facing one of the main events in the field of art history in Brazil in recent years”, writes Tadeu Chiarelli about "Afro-Brazilian Art: Altos e Baixos de a concept”, book by Renato Araújo da Silva; read the review and access the work

Interesting how, once again, the Brazilian belletrist tradition puts the visual arts and its circuit to one side, when it comes to reflecting on...

Based on the work of important authors of the period, Tadeu Chiarelli highlights references to photography in the novels and how they reflect the contradictions of a country in which slavery and explicit signs of modernity coexisted.

With the will to stay in that labyrinthine space, the public will find good reasons to visit the exhibition

Tadeu Chiarelli writes about the artist's exhibition, on display at Galeria Vermelho