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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 First Museum Exhibition of Brazilian Modernist Photography Outside Brazil

Avatar photo by Julia Curl September 15, 2021September 21, 2021

This retrospective of the work from a São Paulo photo club is a reminder that Modernism was not solely a European phenomenon.

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Remembering Brazilian Poet and Art Critic Ferreira Gullar

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino December 5, 2016December 6, 2016

Ferreira Gullar, one of Brazil’s most illustrious poets and art critics, helped to found the Neo-Concretist movement in 1959 and famously wrote his “Dirty Poem” while living in exile from the military dictatorship.

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Considering Brazil’s Racial Heritage

by Laura C. Mallonee December 15, 2014December 18, 2014

The 18th-century Brazilian sculptor Aleijadinho was the mixed-race son of a black slave and one of his country’s most legendary artists. In the gold-rich state of Minas Gerais, where millions lost their lives in the mines, tourists still pay to visit the immaculate baroque churches he embellished.

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The Radical Brazilian Artist Who Abandoned Art

by Tatiane Schilaro August 11, 2014August 17, 2014

As the visitor to the Museum of Modern Art walks across a swarming fifth floor this summer, she will find Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948–1988, the first comprehensive retrospective of the Brazilian artist’s career in America.

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