Portrait of Raphael Galvez, in the studio on Rua Lopes de Oliveira, in the 1980s

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
At Hallenbad Ost, works by Taring Padi, a collective that had one of its panels, exhibited at Friederichplatz, taken from documenta fifteen after criticism - explained in the text. Photo: Patricia Rousseaux

culture war

Returning to the concept of culture war, art critic Fabio Cypriano writes about the polemics of documenta fifteen
Luiz Zerbini, "A Primeira Missa", 2014. Photo: Pat Kilgore.

Reappropriate to Repair: The Centenary of the Week of 22 under the...

Exhibitions, books and debates shed light on the triggering point of the Brazilian historical avant-garde from issues that did not exist for artists of the time, such as issues of race, ethnicity and gender. 
Work by Tatiana Blass exhibited in the solo show "Reviravolta", at Galeria Millan. Photo: Disclosure

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
Indigenous to the Guarani people, he walks through the forest at night to fight the fire near Aldeia Tekoa Itakupe in the Jaraguá Indigenous Land, west of São Paulo capital, 2020. Photo: Felipe Beltrame.

The cry of the forests, the eloquence of images

Collective exhibition TURI presents works by 24 photographers who, at different times, recorded the destruction of the Brazilian ecosystem, especially the fires
View of the exhibition “In the verb of Silence, the Synthesis of Scream”, at IMS Paulista. Photo: Helio Campos Mello.

Walter Firmo: An apology for the image

The Moreira Salles Institute of São Paulo presents the exhibition "In the verb of Silence the Síntese do Grito" by the carioca photographer Walter Firmo
Photograph by Edgar Kanaykõ Xakriabá that would integrate the collective exhibition of the series "Brazilian Stories", canceled by Masp. Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Bureaucratic “crutch” for censorship at Masp is a metastasis of authoritarianism

Jotabê Medeiros writes about recent episodes at Masp that question the democratic aspect of the São Paulo museum
"Fight", by Rubens Gerchman, at the Vladimir Herzog Institute. Photo: Reproduction.

New government attack on culture hits the economy itself

Studies demonstrate the direct relationship between investment and job creation in the creative sectors
Rosaria Schifani at her husband's funeral, 1993. Credit: Letizia Battaglia.

Thinking of Letizia Battaglia

Within a month of the death of the Italian photographer, journalist Simonetta Persichetti writes about the life and work of Battaglia