“Look Mom, I Can Fly,” a work by Bruno Lyfe acquired at ArtRio by the Pérez Art Museum Miami

Brazil’s Art Market Robust, More Diverse According to Art Press

Big statements about art in Brazil seemed to be the theme of coverage of ArtRio by the international English-language art publications. “The 14th edition of ArtRio, Brazil’s second largest art fair and one of the most important in Latin America, seems to be surprising a lot of visitors and local insiders,” wrote ArtNews. “Despite the overall feeling of a slowdown in the global art market, this was not the overall impression for those at the fair’s preview…” (More here.) 

Meanwhile, The Art Newspaper was most interested in the increasing interest in Black artists in Brazil: “​​What is most noticeably changing within this market is increasing racial diversity,” they wrote. “Galleries are now jostling to include more Black and Indigenous artists, so as to better reflect a country in which fifty-six percent of the population identifies as non-white—and to meet increasing demand from collectors, both in Brazil and abroad.” (More here.) 

Vik Muniz Portrays the Wrongly Convicted

Today is Wrongful Conviction Day in the United States, and Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York will be showing portraits created by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz of the Innocence Project’s most recent exonerees—Termaine Hicks, Rosa Jimenez, Felipe Rodriguez and Michelle Murphy—from 6:30pm to 8pm. For the 60×48 portraits, Muniz used calendar and date clippings to create the works.

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