A centenary passing in white clouds
A look at the friendship between Ismael Nery and Murilo Mendes, which began in 1921, demonstrates that there is still much to be studied and written about the particular development of surrealism in Brazil.
Petit maître
Art critic and professor Tadeu Chiarelli lists reasons to read the recently released autobiography of sculptor and painter Raphael Galvez
Segall and Picasso; allegory and decisive moment; painting and photography
In view of the discussions on modernism and the 1922 Modern Art Week, an issue that remains outside the debate is...
Tarsila's drawings in Itu and the peculiar journey of...
Exhibition "Studies and Notes" will present 203 works at the Marcos Amaro Art Factory, curated by Aracy Amaral and Regina Teixeira de Barros
Carmela Gross: between revolution and revolt
The exhibition Almost Circus, by Carmela Gross, on display at Sesc Pompeia, in São Paulo, has a degree of opacity that forces us to think...
“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...
Swimming with a stroke
Released discreetly in the first half of this year (although printed in 2023), the book Negros na pool. Contemporary art, curation and education (Ed. Fósforo)...
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.
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.
