Tag: museums
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
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
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
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...