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The Brazilian Women Clowns Fighting Back Against Bolsonaro

by Sage Behr October 23, 2022October 24, 2022

Palhaçaria feminina, or female clowning, is uniquely situated at the crosshairs of the president’s rhetoric against women, artists, and leftists.

Posted inNews

Fire Engulfs Warehouse of South America’s Largest Film Collection

Avatar photo 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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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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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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Fernanda Gomes Creates a Surreal Domestic Space With Her Abstractions

by Ela Bittencourt January 8, 2020January 7, 2020

Gomes, who lives in Rio de Janeiro, often works from home, where daily, mundane objects are not distinguished from sculptural pieces.

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Lina Bo Bardi’s Glass House and the Multiple Worlds It Contains

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino November 21, 2016November 23, 2016

While the Italian-born architect Lina Bo Bardi carried her European heritage with her, her passion for, and even affinity with Brazilian culture was profound.

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After the Olympics and an Impeachment, Brazilian Artists Look to the Horizon

by Ian Erickson-Kery August 23, 2016August 24, 2016

SÃO PAULO — On Sunday, the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro came to a close with the conspicuous absence of Interim President Michel Temer, who was met with boos when he appeared at the opening ceremony.

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A Gallery Looks Back on 40 Years of Showing Art in Brazil

by Mark Sheerin February 5, 2015February 5, 2015

Global recessions and armed crackdowns on protests are undoubtedly bad for art, but the old adage that hardship and suffering fuels creativity comes to mind when looking back at Brazil in the 1970s and considering the improbable success of Galeria Luisa Strina.

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A Brazilian Street Art Community Wracked by Tragedy

by Laura C. Mallonee January 1, 2015December 31, 2014

Four Brazilian graffiti artists who initiated a protest against police brutality in São Paulo last August are the subjects of a new documentary.

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The Trailblazing Peruvian Photographer Who Captured a Vanishing World

by Laura C. Mallonee December 23, 2014

In 1905, when the Andean photographer Martín Chambi was 14 years old, he traveled to northwestern Peru with his father, who had a job working in a gold mine there. At the time, there were no indigenous photographers in the country, and images of the Quechua people were mostly captured through the lenses of French and American photographers.

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Getting Up Close and Personal with the Brazilian Protests

by Laura C. Mallonee July 15, 2014July 15, 2014

For the past year, a photography collective in São Paulo, Brazil, has been creating short, troubling, and cinematic videos of the public protests that first swept the country in 2013.

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