José Damasceno and Mona Lisa’s smile

It gives a certain relief to enter José Damasceno’s exhibition, Moto-continuo, at Estação Pinacoteca, in such an unfavorable context, when a CPI unveils all...
"Gargalheira ou quem falará por nós", Sidney Amaral, 2014. Foto: Coleção particular/Cortesia Sesc Jundiaí

Letter to Sidney Amaral

In the context of holding the exhibition "Viver até o fim o que me cabe! - Sidney Amaral: aproximação", at Sesc Jundiaí, artist and curator Daniel Lima writes a correspondence directed to the São Paulo artist, who died in 2017

The transitory character of things

Active since the 1980s, Carlito Carvalhosa demonstrated a permanent desire to subtly transform our apprehension of what surrounds us; artist passed early, at the age of 59, and leaves an important legacy of interventions in national and international institutions

A triennial in progress

In the midst of a pandemic and political crisis context, what are the curatorial and exhibition possibilities? This was one of the questions that...
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
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
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

Galleries Curate: a new way of creating a market

In the troubled context caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, a collaborative platform brings together more than 20 galleries and proposes exhibitions that take place simultaneously in various corners of the world

Transarte Institute: for a LGBTQ+ future

Transarte is transformed from a gallery into an institute, with a definitive space to ensure the artistic production of the community LGBTQ+
"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