Brazil

At the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, the artist creates a constellation of living memory for her first solo institutional show in Brazil

The Indigenous Brazilian movement brings to life its ancestral musical traditions

At Gasworks, London, the artist envisions a time when half the world’s population is living in a tropical climate 

The esteemed curator discusses the future of Brazil’s cultural sector and what to expect from the 2023 São Paulo Biennial

The duo’s solo exhibition at the New Museum, New York, shows multiple facets of Brazilian identity

Ela Bittencourt investigates the ways in which film directors in the 1960s and ’70s used surrealism as a way of interrogating unstable political moments and reimagining the future 

Fernanda Brenner on the artist's uncanny and transgressive films

Fernanda Brenner looks at three activists groups challenging Bolsonaro’s anti-Indigenous government

At SESC Sorocaba, Brazil, the third edition of the Frestas Triennial of Arts respond to the debates around decolonialization that have dominated the discourse in Latin America for the past two decades

Black Brazilian contemporary artists confront the racial violence of the state 

The new co-artistic director of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro discusses her Afro-centred curatorial practice, the importance of translation, and writing as a form of dance

One year into the authoritarian president’s term, Brazilian artists are pushing back against state violence and censorship by summoning the spirit of the ‘sertão’

The artist’s feast is plentiful and sumptuous, but leaves us with a hefty bill and a heavy stomach

A timely documentary about the backslide into dictatorship reveals some uncomfortable home truths in the US

In further news: Parents call on Harvard Art Museums to remove Sackler name; Cuban artist-activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara arrested

The Brazilian artist brought food, film, art and love to her social project

‘What would Jac Leirner do?’

In further news: gallery sues Christie’s over ‘bargain basement’ Francis Bacon sale; Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ heads to Japan

In further news: artists take National Gallery to court; Tel Aviv protests over ‘loyalty in culture’ bill

The importance of art classes; Egon Schiele’s legacy and Hito Steyerl’s favourite films: what to read this weekend