Tarsila's self-portraits, part II: the “Achiropita” image
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.
Joseph Beuys and the abandonment to art
One of the most radical and influential artists of the second half of the 20th century, an unavoidable reference for contemporary production, would be 100 years old in 2021; The arte!brasileiros publishes a text that analyzes different moments and works in the trajectory of the German artist
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.
Breaking the complicity between the aesthetic and the colonial device: art...
Márcio Seligmann-Silva analyzes narratives about the history of Afro-descendant Brazilian art, which involves a series of traumatic repetitions over time
The boycott of Grada Kilomba in the official Portuguese representation of the Bienal...
By Ana Teixeira Pinto* On November 11, 2021, DGARTES (Direção Geral das Artes) announced the result of the competition for the...
The [non] market of inclusion: ableism in the world of the arts
Artists reflect on the dilemmas of including people with disabilities (PWD) in the art world and talk about ableism and accessibility
No, it's not photojournalism
From the publication of the photo of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, doctor, journalist and photography critic Simonetta Persichetti weaves a reflection on the image, photojournalism and its policies
Selling and catching Cildo Meireles
A wide “poetic and historical anthology” of the carioca artist occupies the Sesc Pompeia, in São Paulo, with around 150 works that challenge the senses, invite interaction and point out the permanence of violence experienced in Brazil since the colonial period and the period of the dictatorship. military until today
Augusto de Campos opens a new exhibition and calls the current moment...
Famous poet and visual artist opens an exhibition at the Luciana Brito gallery and says he has never seen "so much mediocrity together, so many ugly people, so much setback, not even in the military dictatorship"
Art market in 2021: far from the crisis
In the midst of an extremely troubled context with the pandemic, professionals in the Brazilian art market report a year of positive sales results, benefiting from both the expansion of the virtual and the recent resumption of the face-to-face.
