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The Rio de Janeiro painter Arjan Martins, in his studio in Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Pepe Schettino

Arjan Martins: “Black collecting is almost a utopian intention of target audience for me”

The recent (and growing) success of black artists in Brazil and around the world has led painter Arjan Martins, 62, to reflect. For him, the new generation “earned a lot of money early”, but still...
"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
"Landscape", by Regina Silveira, work commissioned for the Bienal. Photo: © Levi Fanan / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

34th Bienal de São Paulo opens its main show with a strong political and...

With more than a thousand works, Bienal de São Paulo embodies the idea of ​​resistance encompassing different themes, generations and languages

Galeria Gentil Carioca opens a branch in São Paulo

Aleta Valente, Ana Linnemann, Arjan Martins, Cabelo, Ernesto Neto, Jarbas Lopes, João Modé, José Bento, Laura Lima, Marcela Cantuária, Maria Laet, Maria Nepomuceno, Maxwell Alexandre, OPAVIVARÁ!, Renata Lucas, Rodrigo Torres and Vivian Caccuri. Those...

Galleries Curate: a new way of creating a market

In the troubled context caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the collaborative platform brings together more than 20 galleries and proposes exhibitions that take place simultaneously in various corners of the world
Monster Chetwynd, "Hokusai's Octapai", 2004, installation at the Tanya Leighton gallery, as part of Galleries Curate

Galleries Curate: new way to create market

The impact caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has brought about unimagined changes. The perplexity of the present, resulting from the seclusion protocols and temporary closures of galleries, museums, fairs and biennials, shook the system of...
Portraits of Benta Maria, Antonio Dutra and Manuel do Sacramento by Igi Ayedun. Photo: Courtesy Companhia das Letras and Pinacoteca de São Paulo

“Black Encyclopedia”: a book of many hands, minds and lives

Organized by Flávio dos Santos Gomes, Jaime Lauriano and Lilia Schwarcz, Enciclopédia Negra confronts the historiography that denies visibility to the contributions of black people; publication also unfolds in an exhibition at the Pinacoteca
"Americas" (2016), Arjan Martins. Photo: A Gentil Carioca.

Arjan Martins has a trajectory portrayed in a book

Launch of Editora Cobogó, a publication organized by Paulo Miyada presents an overview of the painter's career from Rio de Janeiro
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

Agenda: Check out the highlights for the week April 28 to May 4

Take advantage of the holiday to visit some of the most important exhibitions and other activities in the art world in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Belo Horizonte... and (why not?) New York