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Matarazzo City

Matarazzo City, contemporary art and neoliberalism

Based on the luxurious real estate project being built in São Paulo, the curator and researcher points to the dangerous use of contemporary art by neoliberal logic, questions the capitalist model that claims to “defend” diversity and discusses the precariousness of labor relations.
Guy Brett at Sesc Pompeia, in São Paulo, a work designed by architect Lina Bo Bardi. Photo: Alexia Tala.

Guy Brett: an extraordinary “ordinary” life

About a month after the death of the British critic and curator Guy Brett, Chilean curator Alexia Tala writes about the personality and thought of one of the most important figures for the diffusion of Latin American art, especially Brazilian art, in European lands.
AI and art Ai-Da Robot

Will robots be the artists of the future?

Art made by Artificial Intelligence generates reflections on the nature of creativity, the importance of experience in creation and the ethical barriers of technological development
Botafogo Bay, 1928, by Ismael Nery, ink and watercolor on paper. Collection of the Murilo Mendes Art Museum.

A centenary passing in white clouds

A look at the friendship between Ismael Nery and Murilo Mendes, which began in 1921, demonstrates that there is still much to be studied and written about the particular development of surrealism in Brazil.
Dzi Croquettes: Benê Lacerda, 1974

The power of empathy

Images made by Madalena Schwartz of the 1970s São Paulo trans scene reveal the photographer's complicity with people in front of her camera

Lives, a necessary torment

Since the beginning of the pandemic and the need for social isolation, the world as a whole has been forced to create communication strategies...
Van Gogh

Rodrigo Naves talks about his new book, “Van Gogh: Salvation through Painting”

Gabriel San Martin* On February 5th, writer and art critic Rodrigo Naves published his new book: Van Gogh: A Salvação...