Inglourious bastards

Anonymous meme profiles on Instagram - such as @freeze_magazine, @jerrygogosian and @newmemeseum - risk cunning criticism at the art world, its peculiarities and its flirtation with unsustainable business models

Carlos Motta points to roots of prejudice and racism in the...

New York-based Colombian artist presents traces of inquisition and slavery as key to understanding the present moment
Estação da Luz. Photo: Joca Duarte

Museum of the Portuguese Language is reborn in downtown São Paulo

About five years after the fire that hit its headquarters at Estação da Luz, the institution reopens in 2021 with updates to its contents, but keeping as a basis the same curatorial project that made it recognized

Trans-Formation

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Carlito Carvalhosa, Já Estava Assim Quando Cheguei, 2019

The inclusive policy by Sesc-SP also holds true for art

New building, which in its first weekend received 24 thousand visitors, presents several works signed by more than 15 artists
O assassinato de Piersanti Mattarella, Governador da Sicília, em 1980.

Witnesses of evil, of good, of life

Works and trajectories of Letizia Battaglia and Sergio Larrain are at exhibitions at the Moreira Salles Institute in São Paulo
Studo para uma Cosmogonia Supercomplexa Metropolitana Expandida

The gaping reality in the work by Guerreiro do Divino Amor

Winner of the 2019 Pipa Prize, the artist has been developing the Superfictions series for about 15 years, through which he deals with profound social and symbolic issues, from media manipulation to colonialism, from social segregation to the power of the neo-Pentecostal churches, from state violence to power of marketing and market
Overview of the "Língua Solta" exhibition, in the foreground "Olha Minha Lingua", by Alex dos Santos. Photo: Ciete Silverio.

Words in the world of things

The first exhibition opened at the Museum of the Portuguese Language, Língua Solta is curated by Moacir dos Anjos and Fabiana Moraes and puts contemporary works of art in dialogue with objects, posters and other elements of everyday life
Anna Maria Maiolino, "Capítulo I", da série "Mapas Mentais", 1971. Foto: Divulgação

“Presente”: a publication that emerges from caring and dialogue

Conceived by Anna Maria Maiolino and Paulo Miyada in response to the reality of social distancing, Presente brings together exchanges of correspondence between curators, artists and researchers such as Lisette Lagnado, Tania Rivera and Dalton Paula

In Verbier, indigenous leader argues that art is not for cowards

Brazilian Naine Terena participates in a meeting of Switzerland, organized by Jochen Volz, with a strong political character