Working with memory is working with present

Portuguese curator João Fernandes, new artistic director of the Moreira Salles Institute – ims, wants to work with the institution’s collections to reflect the current times
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
Nheë Nheë Nheë

Nheë Nheë nheë, genealogy of the tropical leisure

Ludic, brave and existential, Márcio Almeida recommends the leisure to come to a creative moment of truth

Stephen Dean, the color as a connection of the look

The Franco-American artist works dicroic glass with saturation, reflexivity and transparency.

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

Far Beyond Art

Choice of Indonesian collective ruangrupa for artistic direction of Documenta reinforces the trend of proposals that goes beyond spaces such as museums and galleries
Joseph Beuys, La Rivoluzioni Siamo Noi (1972). Foto: Cortesia Bergamin & Gomide.

Joseph Beuys and the abandonment of art

One of the most radical and influential artists of the second half of the 20th century, an inescapable reference for contemporary production, would complete 100 years in 2021; arte!brasileiros publishes text that analyzes different moments and works of the german artist’s trajectory
Nazareth Pacheco

Nazareth Pacheco: creation as triumph of life

Exhibition Registros/Records... in the gallery Kogan Amaro condenses the work of memory made by the artist throughout her life
"À Procura de Emprego", 1948. Courtesy: Galeria Utópica

The restless and tireless look of German Lorca

One of the great modern photographers of our country, member of Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante in the 1950s, born in São Paulo, he left a legacy of more than 70 years transiting through urban records, experimental or advertising photographs
"Cantos de Esquinas", Maxwell Alexandre, 2019. Photo: Gabi Carrera.

“Pardo é Papel” or the epic grandeur of a people in...

Presented at Tomie Ohtake Institute after passing through Lyon, Porto Alegre and Rio, Maxwell Alexandre’s show portrays black people in everyday situations with a grandiose, consecrating and historic character