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New headquarters of the Casa do Pontal Museum

Casa do Pontal Museum gains a secure headquarters

After a decade of problems with floods, Casa do Pontal Museum moves its grandiose collection of popular art to its new headquarters in the Barra da Tijuca neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro
Horizontal, color photo. View of the MIRROR COUNTRIES exhibition. In the foreground, sculptures of animals, some colored, in wood, others in straw. In the background, a mural with capulanas and fabrics from different regions of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, São Tomé and Principe, Cape Verde and Brazil. Kazuo Kajihara's photo.

“Mirrored Countries”, at Sesc Consolação, shows cultural encounters between Brazil and African nations of...

The piassava palm straw weaves on the north coast of Bahia create a clear dialogue with the basketry made on the north coast of Cabo Delgado, in Mozambique, as well as the graphics of traditional basketry...
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The art in transformation

15th Bienal Naïfs do Brasil reflects on the narratives that build Brazilian history, proposes attention to peripheral vision and a non-generalist look at popular artists
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
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What are our ideas for postponing the end of art?

At Sesc Piracicaba, 15th Bienal Naïfs do Brasil, entitled "Ideias to postpone the end of art", reflects on the narratives that build Brazilian history, proposes attention to peripheral vision and a non-generalist look at popular artists; Watch the video