SP-Arte Announces Sixteenth Edition Is Suspended
“We believe that the best course of action at this time is to suspend the 16th edition of SP-Arte until we have adequate conditions for its realization.”
Brazilian Art’s Grand Dame: Regina Silveira Is Still Innovating at New Paço das Artes Museum
The eighty-year-old artist has proven that constant reinvention is a mark of her singular career.
Cultural War: A Review of Against, Again: Art Under Attack in Brazil at Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery
Traversing history from the mid-twentieth century to the present, “Against, Again” draws sharp lines connecting artists responding to authoritarianism.
All That Glitters: Myriam Glatt Turns Refuse Into Beauty With Cardboard Sculptures
“I feel happy I use discarded materials and happy also because I haven’t discarded what I learned.”
Forest Explorer: The Brazilian Landscape Gets a Nineteenth-Century Makeover in the Works of Photographer Cassio Vasconcellos
“Dríades e Faunos” (“Dryads and Fauns”) brings into focus the relationship between Mother Nature and us, humans.
Freedom of Expression: Vincent Rosenblatt Explains How Brazil’s Baile Funks Are Akin to Photography
Rosenblatt transforms regulars inside the bubble of a funk ball into elemental gods of pop, rhythm and sex, pumping with primal energy.
A Multiplicity of Narratives: A Review of The discovery of what it means to be Brazilian at Mariane Ibrahim
The often whitewashed, homogenous image of Brazil is confronted by these Black Brazilian artists with work that is stained with white elitism.
Rhythm in Blue: A New Retrospective Places Painter Antonio Bandeira in Brazil’s Art Canon
Bandeira was among the top Brazilian abstract artists of the 1950s and 1960s.
Rethinking Modernism: Gego’s Abstract Sculptures Make São Paulo Debut
While she developed her career in the context of Venezuelan modernity, her work has a different sensibility to it.
No Representation, No Problem: The Salon of Artists With No Gallery Returns For Eleventh Year
A platform of 279 artists from eleven Brazilian states coming together amid turbulent times is an act of defiance.
Homebodies: Art Twins Tangerina Bruno Are the Stars in Their Paintings
Galeria Kogan Amaro opens Tangerina Bruno’s solo exhibition “Estados Cotidianos” (Daily States), which makes campy the commonplace of contemporary life at home.
A Universe of Color: A New Exhibition Highlights the Immersive Work of Op Art Forefather Carlos Cruz-Diez
Cruz-Diez’s challenging creative experience brought about a new visual grammar that transformed the relationship between the work of art and the observer.
The Essence of the Line: The Legacy of Servulo Esmeraldo Lives on in Zurich Exhibition
Esmeraldo’s long-standing fascination with the very act of drawing was central to the work in several mediums of this prolific artist.
Lift Our Taboos: Christian-Jack Heymès Shares His Tribal Art Collection at Museu Afro Brasil
Most of the artifacts were retrieved during the travels of this adventurous Parisian, bit by the tribal art bug when he was drafted in 1971.
