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An All-Female Gang Sells Black-Market Oil in Dry Ground Burning

by Ben R. Nicholson May 2, 2022May 3, 2022

A meticulous blend of fact and fiction, this film surveys the overlooked fringe of Brazilian society under President Bolsonaro.

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Brazilian Modernist Building Engulfed by Fire Receives Getty Preservation Grant

by Jasmine Liu March 20, 2022March 18, 2022

The $240,000 grant will help preserve 38,500 surviving objects pertaining to Brazil’s rich architectural history.

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The Edgy and Lucid Video Art of Rafael França

by Ela Bittencourt January 25, 2022January 25, 2022

Video art was something you watched “with the lights on,” as França insisted, without pretenses of high art.

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The Jewish Immigrant Modernists Who Dreamed a Better Future in Brazil

by Ela Bittencourt November 21, 2021December 30, 2021

As Jewish artists fled World War II, some settled in Brazil, where their resilience and desire for renewal shaped their art that looked hopefully to the future.

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The São Paulo Biennial Captures a Perpetually Discontinuous World

by Ela Bittencourt October 18, 2021October 18, 2021

Many works take disruption and repetition as their themes, and many artists resurface in different sections, creating multiple affinities.

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Fire Engulfs Warehouse of South America’s Largest Film Collection

by Valentina Di Liscia July 30, 2021July 30, 2021

São Paulo’s Cinemateca Brasileira is the latest cultural organization threatened by preventable fires in Brazil.

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Watch a First-of-Its-Kind Program of Films From Southeast Brazil

by Dan Schindel April 20, 2021April 20, 2021

From Afro-Brazilian celebrations to Italian immigrants, Cinelimite’s online retrospective The World Seen and Dreamt presents films documenting the culture of Espírito Santo.

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The Pink Cloud Is a Dark Sci-Fi Take on Quarantine, Made Before the Pandemic

by Jourdain Searles January 30, 2021January 13, 2022

Playing at the Sundance Film Festival, the Brazilian drama will make you wonder if writer/director Iuli Gerbase is a prophet.

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Lush Yet Crisp: Beatriz Milhazes’s Lively Abstractions

by Ela Bittencourt January 29, 2021February 8, 2021

Avenida Paulista, Milhazes’s largest survey to date, offers an engrossing overview of how the artist cross-pollinates painting and printmaking.

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A Public Vulva Sculpture in Brazil Protests Violence Against Women

by Valentina Di Liscia January 5, 2021January 5, 2021

Juliana Notari’s “Diva,” a massive, concrete and resin sculpture built on a hillside in Pernambuco, has prompted outrage from conservative groups.

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Winds of Change at the São Paulo Biennial’s Introductory Show

by Ela Bittencourt December 10, 2020December 10, 2020

Emphasizing obscured histories, Vento inspires hope that the biennial programs to come will be potent enough to raise some dust in Niemeyer’s drafty halls.

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Lucia Nogueira’s Sensuous, Smoky Visions of Hell

by Ela Bittencourt November 17, 2020November 19, 2020

Featuring a stunning series of watercolors based on Dante’s Inferno, Nogueira’s latest exhibition sheds new light on her gift for haunting evocations of the female body.

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