News
Brazilian Modernist Building Engulfed by Fire Receives Getty Preservation Grant
The $240,000 grant will help preserve 38,500 surviving objects pertaining to Brazil’s rich architectural history.
Brazil
Art
The Edgy and Lucid Video Art of Rafael França
Video art was something you watched “with the lights on,” as França insisted, without pretenses of high art.
Art
The Jewish Immigrant Modernists Who Dreamed a Better Future in Brazil
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.
Art
The São Paulo Biennial Captures a Perpetually Discontinuous World
Many works take disruption and repetition as their themes, and many artists resurface in different sections, creating multiple affinities.
News
Fire Engulfs Warehouse of South America’s Largest Film Collection
São Paulo's Cinemateca Brasileira is the latest cultural organization threatened by preventable fires in Brazil.
Film
Watch a First-of-Its-Kind Program of Films From Southeast Brazil
From Afro-Brazilian celebrations to Italian immigrants, Cinelimite's online retrospective The World Seen and Dreamt presents films documenting the culture of Espírito Santo.
Film
The Pink Cloud Is a Dark Sci-Fi Take on Quarantine, Made Before the Pandemic
Playing at the Sundance Film Festival, the Brazilian drama will make you wonder if writer/director Iuli Gerbase is a prophet.
Art
Lush Yet Crisp: Beatriz Milhazes’s Lively Abstractions
Avenida Paulista, Milhazes’s largest survey to date, offers an engrossing overview of how the artist cross-pollinates painting and printmaking.
News
A Public Vulva Sculpture in Brazil Protests Violence Against Women
Juliana Notari’s “Diva,” a massive, concrete and resin sculpture built on a hillside in Pernambuco, has prompted outrage from conservative groups.
Art
Winds of Change at the São Paulo Biennial's Introductory Show
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.
Art
Lucia Nogueira’s Sensuous, Smoky Visions of Hell
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.
Art
A Film Series Spotlights Stories of Black Brazilians From Women Directors
Co-presented by Cinema Tropical and the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), Visions of Resistance presents narratives of resilience and uprising.