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Should the show go on?

I am writing this text outside of São Paulo, where I am experiencing the pandemic, a little taken aback by the images on social media of the reopening of art institutions in the capital. Many artists, intellectuals, curators and even...

Normal was not normal: What museums do we want after the pandemic?

It is essential to start anew, to decolonize the museum from its servile condition of the ideology of a power and of a global economy, to understand how the narratives that museums starred in, the way in which they received their audiences, as mere consumers, distorted and robbed them of the challenges of contemporaneity
Art at stake: the challenges of the virtual

Art at stake: the challenges of the virtual

By making it impossible to visit the exhibition spaces, the quarantine made it mandatory to search for alternative solutions for fruition.
The photo shows Protestants performing a "Die in". The demonstration is against the Sackler family, linked to Purdue Pharma, producer of Oxy Contin. Among the protesters is photographer Nan Goldin, surrounded by papers that say "Sackler Lie People Die" and bottles of medicine.

American case raises questions about the costs of survival in culture

Protests highlight contemporary dilemma of museums and cultural institutions around the world vis-à-vis their private funders
Rubem Ludolf, Study for painting, 1970, Pastel chalk on paper.

Rescue at the right time

Paço das Artes and Instituto de Arte Contemporânea gain fixed offices in São Paulo