After decades of work, expectations for women artists to prioritize family — or male peers — remains the prevailing norm rather than the exception.
Ela Bittencourt
Ela Bittencourt is a critic and cultural journalist, currently based in São Paulo. She writes on art, film and literature, often in the context of social issues and politics.
The Scholar Who Rewrote Black Brazilian History
Beatriz Nascimento’s groundbreaking research defied dominant White Brazilian academic narratives, instead emphasizing Black political agency.
Aboard a Floating French Clinic, Art Enables Healing
On the Adamant documents how art allows patients to translate confounding experiences into imagery — what one might call the poetry of the everyday.
History Is a Warning in Neue Nationalgalerie’s Collection-Based Exhibition
Seen today, histories of radical feminist positionality and liberational struggle reverberate with stinging intensity.
Murdered Art Dealer Brent Sikkema’s Ex-Husband Arrested in New York
Brazilian prosecutors are pursuing Daniel Sikkema in connection with the gallery owner’s stabbing in Rio de Janeiro.
Memories of East Germany’s Bygone Era of International Solidarity
Echoes of the Brother Countries explores the ongoing traces of Germany’s ties to socialist countries via artwork and film screenings.
When a Woman Searches for a Man and Finds Herself Instead
The women-led Retrospective section of the Berlinale gives second-wave feminism a fresh look.
Maria Lassnig’s Triumphant “Little Films”
Lassnig’s short films perfectly present the artist’s uncanny talent for marrying morbidity and frolic, rigor and wantonness.
What We Know About Art Dealer Brent Sikkema’s Murder
A suspect who confessed to the crime alleges that Sikkema’s ex-husband manipulated him as new details about the inquiry emerge.
Women Are the Post-Apocalyptic Future
Emma Talbot and Dana Schutz address societal, ecological meltdown, drawing attention to humanity’s absurdities while offering paths to eco-centric renewal.
Emilio Rodríguez-Larraín’s Andean Modernism
The artist’s works are like maps through which he conjures familiar habitats, while tracing the roots of modernism to the graphic expressiveness of Andean art.
Daniel Senise’s Complex Minimalism
At first glance, Senise’s paintings appear coolly cerebral but standing close to the canvas’s surface we can observe that they are teeming with detail.