Too bad Oswald wasn't born in Rio, right?
Interesting how, once again, the Brazilian belletrist tradition puts the visual arts and its circuit to one side, when it comes to reflecting on...
“Monument to the Flags”, by Brecheret: the present past
Victor Brecheret's Monument to the Flags, also known as Push-Push and Let Me Push, is over a hundred years old, if we take...
Brazilian choice in Venice reflects authoritarianism of Fundação Bienal de São...
Once again, the nomination of the Brazilian representative at the Venice Biennale is the result of an undemocratic choice, as it has been characterized since...
Monteiro Lobato art critic. Again [or yet]
Tadeu Chiarelli discusses Lobato's art criticism from a broader context than the São Paulo scene of 1917, bringing other data to reflect on the writer's performance
Tarsila's self-portraits, part III: the various resignifications of a...
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.
Jean Paul Ganem makes land art to see and taste in...
With "Desenho Infinito", a Franco-Tunisian artist makes an instigating cross between edible art and Brazilian indigenous culture and presents a work wrapped in the ideas of agroforest and organic garden.
“Do you think the Portuguese are white?” “Afro-Brazilian” art as construction
“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
Artists of African descent in Brazilian art: presence/absence?
In a new text in his column, the critic and curator Tadeu Chiarelli focuses on the virtual absence of black artists in the hegemonic history of art in Brazil, especially from the second half of the XNUMXth century onwards.
Photography and modernity in the cloudy mirror of literature. Brazil, XNUMXth century XIX
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.
Something happens in my heart: the images of São Paulo
The critic and curator Tadeu Chiarelli analyses, based on the work "Don't enter the left", by Maurício Nogueira Lima, the representation of the city of São Paulo made in photographs and paintings at different times of the XNUMXth century
