“I want to be the painter of my country,” wrote Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973) in 1923. Born at the end of the 19th century to a family of coffee plantation owners in São Paulo, Tarsila―as she is ...
The impeachment of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff and the current economic crisis will have a long-lasting impact on the country, including on one of the largest open-air contemporary art ...
Installation view of Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil at the Visual Arts Center, the University of Texas at Austin, September 23, 2022 – March 10, 2023 (photo Sandy Carson, all ...
Asia’s largest noncommercial art event recruited from all corners of the globe, “breaking the stereotypes of what it means to ...
Over nearly 50 years, Luisa Strina has built one of the most successful galleries in Latin America — and brought Brazilian art to the world stage. By Ray Mark Rinaldi Reporting from São Paulo, Brazil ...
I spent five weeks in and around Sao Paulo, Brazil during the southern hemispheric summer 1988-89. Fortunately I was with my long-time companion Caitlin Manning, whose talent at learning new languages ...
SP–Arte at the Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo opened to VIPs on April 2. Courtesy SP–Arte SP–Arte, Brazil’s leading art fair, opened yesterday (Wednesday, April 2) to VIPs in the iconic Pavilhão Ciccillo ...
"An exploration of the innovative, quintessentially Brazilian painter who merged modernism with the brilliant energy and culture of her homeland Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) was a central figure at ...
“You can see, here, she’s not worried about putting a perfect body on canvas,” said the woman standing near me at the Art Institute of Chicago. “And the tube-like compositions,” responded her ...
NEW YORK — Recently, New York museums have presented retrospectives of all three of the most influential artists of Brazil’s postwar avant-garde. Lygia Clark, with her hinged-metal sculptures you can ...
At Art Basel Miami Beach this week, Brazilian galleries are again well-represented, as the fair, now under the leadership of Bridget Finn, has sought to position itself as a central nexus between the ...