2024 retrospective

Relive the most thought-provoking debates and exhibitions and the artists who challenged boundaries and concepts.
This is the time to revisit content that helped us understand, question and appreciate the world of art in a deeper way.

New MASPBy Pedro Mendes da Rocha

Review

A courageous project, it walks a fine line between what is right and what is wrong

The 60th Venice Biennale and other storiesBy Leonor Amarante

Biennials

Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the Italian exhibition, talks about how he emerged into art

Eleonore Koch stages the paintingBy Tadeu Chiarelli

Bar Talk(r)

One of the issues that most mobilizes in Eleone Koch's work - says Tadeu Chiarelli about the work of the German artist, of Jewish origin - is the strategy used to translate aspects of the reality in which she was immersed into painting.

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Culture Wars Grow on Social Media 🔒By Fabio Cypriano

Culture War

Why attacks on cultural institutions and works of art are used as instruments of the right, based on algorithms that value hate speech

An oasis in the semi-arid northeast 🔒By Patricia Rousseaux

Culture War

In Cariri, a cultural center built on the ruins of a seminary and a hospital shows that will, respect and political intelligence can create a lung of art and environmental preservation

Acceleration and Collapse 🔒By Patricia Rousseaux

Editorial

Art, thought and action in the face of global changes and the need to transform our relationships with the world around us.

On thin ice 🔒By Maria Hirszman

Interview

Luiz Marques addresses the unquestionable link between the environmental debacle and capitalism, defending the need for a profound civilizational mutation in the face of the convergent and accelerated crises we face

Catastrophe, tragedy and disaster as clinical and aesthetic categories 🔒By Christian Dunker

Article

The catastrophe transcends the human and social disaster, assuming an ontological character, with impacts on subjectivity and the collective.

Between the experienced and the imagined 🔒By Eduardo Simões

Exhibitions
At Galeria Estação, ethnographic and fictional aspects alternate in the works of the indigenous Paraguayan artist Ogwa and his granddaughter, Salmi, in the exhibition A Dança dos Mitos

Migrant Art Gallery 🔒By Agustin Perez-Rubio

Exhibitions
Foreword - Boycott of the Triumphal Entry: Painting as a Transmitter of Coloniality

Sertão Negro Studio and School of Arts: a project for the future in the center of Brazil 🔒By Luciara Ribeiro, Ceiça Ferreira and Vitoria Soares

Institution
Artistic-cultural space in the capital of Goiás proposes dialogues between visual arts, backlands and the cerrado based on traditional knowledge of Afro-Brazilian and African origins

Unlearn imperialism and repair 🔒By Fabio Cypriano

Memory
In 'Potential History', artist and academic Ariella Aïsha Azoulay proposes new ways of rethinking the colonialist mode based on concepts such as unlearning and repairing, opposing the notion of progress

Weaving another story 🔒By Maria Hirszman

Exhibitions
Simultaneous exhibitions investigate African knowledge and practices, comparing past and present and proposing new paths for research and contemporary art

Mil Graus focuses on the creative power of the streets 🔒By Fabio Cypriano

Review
Panorama of the Museum of Modern Art of SP, held for the first time at MAC-USP, addresses practices that diverge from hegemonic standards

arte!brasileiros issue #69

arte!brasileiros: Against BANANAlization.
The publication is exclusive to arte✱plus contributors, but Patricia Rousseaux's editorial is available to everyone.
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