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Seminars arte!brasileiros wins Antônio Bento Award from ABCA

Two certainties guide these meetings: creating bridges and believing that art focuses the knowledge of subjects of their time
Color image, horizontal. Photograph of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, one of the museums affected by the measures of the Federal government

Largest Brazilian museums are being asphyxiated by Bolsonaro

With the shelving of the annual plans of institutions and with aggressive changes to the Rouanet Law, the federal government lashes out at renowned museums

National Museum Week seeks to reimagine the future of Brazilian institutions

With the theme "The future of museums: recovering and reimagining", the event brings extensive virtual programming, involving the entire country, and seeks to dialogue with technological advances to understand how they affect our way of being and being in the world.

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
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Politics, culture and the museum scene in the country

Curator João Fernandes, artistic director of Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS), and museologist Marcelo Araujo, director general of the institution, talk about the work of the IMS in the context of the pandemic and about the policy for museums in Brazil
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

The Education of the Look and the Reading of Images

From the works that he researches, chooses and conserves From the dialogue between artists and the public, From the heritage of a country or a foundation, From cultural diversity, From the relationship between public affairs and...