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What Comets Do We See Below the Equator?
6+ hour, 42+ min ago (116+ words) Visual Art Culture of S'o Paulo and Beyond by Luiz Armando Bagolin | June 19, 2026 " Antonin Artaud, "Letter to the Head Physicians of the Asylums" (1925) The Pinakotheke's new home is generous, and opening it with Surrealism carries a particular weight, because to…...
Whither Biennales?
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (53+ words) Visual Art Culture of S'o Paulo and Beyond by Brian Hieggelke | June 17, 2026 Curitiba Biennale Is Now Open The Communist Portinari finally lands in China, with fifty-six works (UOL) Curvy and flowing, Xingu House draws on its Brazilian setting with drama…...
Clara Nunes'I Am the Girl from Minas Gerais
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (95+ words) Visual Art Culture of S'o Paulo and Beyond by Ivi Brasil | June 15, 2026 In this room, be sure to examine the dresses more closely to observe the rich textile details and interesting cutouts. The white dresses are prevalent in Clara Nunes…...
Photography's Subject and Object, From Memento Mori to Ad Vitam Aeternam
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (78+ words) Newcity Brazil It is not the subject, but the object Here, the old camera is a fossil from a bygone era Together, these elements evoke the remains of both a personal and collective past Everything revolves around that small portable…...
Ita" Cultural Unveils Plans for Major New Center
1+ week, 2+ day ago (236+ words) Visual Art Culture of S'o Paulo and Beyond by Brian Hieggelke | June 10, 2026 Facade of the planned new headquarters for Ita" Cultural Ita" Cultural Unveils Plans for Major New Center on Paulista Avenue "With less than a year remaining until Ita…...
An Orderly Accumulation in Moffat Takadiwa's "Reverbera'es do Gesto," and Rodrigo Andrade's "Sala dos Espelhos"
1+ week, 4+ day ago (127+ words) Visual Art Culture of S'o Paulo and Beyond by Luiz Armando Bagolin | June 8, 2026 I cross the garden. On the other side, paint gives way to garbage, and the case changes continents without changing gesture. Three green thumbs, then, separated by…...
At the 61st Venice Art Biennial, Brazil Continues Its Commanding Presence
2+ week, 22+ hour ago (272+ words) Visual Art Culture of S'o Paulo and Beyond by Leonor Veiga | June 5, 2026 Built in 1964, the pavilion was designed primarily by Brazilian architect Henrique Mindlin in collaboration with Venetian architect Amerigo Marchesin. The minimalist modernist structure consists of two parallel rectangular…...
Jerry Gogosian Found Dead at Rosewood + SP Bienal Curatorial Team Named
2+ week, 2+ day ago (138+ words) Visual Art Culture of S'o Paulo and Beyond by Brian Hieggelke | June 3, 2026 Jerry Gogosian Found Dead at Rosewood S'o Paulo S'o Paulo Biennial Names Full Curatorial Team Brazilian Police Name Alleged Mastermind of Matisse Theft Brazil Lost Eighty Percent of…...
A Shipwreck Between Curatorial Islands: "Pluralidades insulares" at FIESP
1+ mon, 16+ hour ago (157+ words) Visual Art Culture of S'o Paulo and Beyond by Juan Jos" Santos Mateo | May 29, 2026 How does one exhibit a selection from an art collection containing thousands upon thousands of works? It is a formidable curatorial challenge, and few exhibitions emerge…...
Beyond the Present Body: The Insurgency of the Image | Newcity Brazil
3+ week, 6+ day ago (21+ words) In "Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s" at MAC_USP, photographic documentation functions through three simultaneous processes in the feminist artists' practice....