"Atlantic" (2016), Arjan Martins. Photo: A Gentil Carioca.

12 art books to read in 2022

A arte!brasileiros prepared a list of 12 books released in 2021 that dialogue with the world of arts and help us to think about it critically
OGUM, from the series Offering to the head, by Ayrson Heráclito, exhibited in YORÙBÁIANO

“Yorùbáiano”, solo show by Ayrson Heráclito, arrives at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo

Articulating diverse cultures that arrived in Brazil from the African diaspora, a unique amalgam of ancestral knowledge, teachings, rites and worldviews...

CCSP receives exhibition of posters taken from Ancine

The exhibition is part of the Summer Without Censorship Festival, organized by the São Paulo Municipal Department of Culture, which carries out various activities in the city's equipment.

Stratagems to resist fascism

With 134 artists and collectives to date (new enlistments are expected throughout its duration, until January 28, 2024), the...

Issue #68 contributors

See who are some of the contributors to issue #68 of arte!brasileiros

Silvio Frota, director of the Fortaleza Photography Museum, says that education...

For Frota, creator of the most important photography museum in the country, which remains without public funding, “culture has always been the ugly duckling, because it doesn't give votes”; the director also highlights the vast educational work carried out with needy populations and talks about regional inequalities in Brazil.

Unesp Book Fair: tips on what to enjoy

The publishers Autêntica, Cobogó and Ubu list which books are great opportunities to take advantage of at the Unesp Book Fair
Work by Heitor dos Prazeres, an important artist for Afro-Brazilian art studies

What do we talk about when we talk about Afro-Brazilian art?

If the history, memory, art and science of the excluded, the divergent and the peripheral are summoned to testify about the present moment, this denounces the emergence via insurgency of actors who demand protagonism, but also points to the exhaustion of a political model and economic, which in its throes threatens life on the planet
The Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan were destroyed by the Taliban 20 years ago. Photo: Reproduction The Art Newspaper

Taliban in power: Cultural heritages in danger

In addition to humanitarian concerns arising from the extremist group's rapid resumption, there is also concern for the security of Afghanistan's cultural heritage.
In light of the Climate Summit 2021, we recall your work "The Coming Storm", which denounces the inaction of world leaders in documenting the harmful effects of climate change in Bangladesh a decade ago.

“The approaching storm”: Jonas Bendiksen denounces the damages of the...

In view of the Climate Summit 2021, we recall the work done ten years ago by the photographer, who denounces the inertia of world leaders in documenting the harmful effects of climate change in Bangladesh.