Ela Bittencourt

The Indigenous Brazilian movement brings to life its ancestral musical traditions

At Zurich’s Haus Konstruktiv, the artist reanimates a past work to make sense of Germany’s present

At Pinacoteca de Estado, São Paulo, the artist toes the fragile line between language, bodies and the environment

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 

From Regina Silveria’s survey at MAC-USP to Paulo Nazareth’s solo exhibition at Pivô, these are the best shows to catch during São Paulo’s art week

From New Orleans much-anticipated Prospect.5 to Naudline Pierre's first institutional solo exhibition, these are the unmissable shows to see this month

This year's iteration of the international exhibition is impressively global in its curatorial reach but the impact of some works diminishes in cross-cultural adaptation

The artist recounts constructing transitory interventions in the face of inflexible bureaucracy

The photographer's exhibition at the Guggenheim, New York, captures the elemental power of Blackness by intermingling portraits with celestial installations

At Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, the artist presents a series of paintings, drawings and collages that capture the physical and mental endurance of confinement

This year’s edition abounded in intricate, ephemeral works across an expansive programme

Workshopping a new book project at Porto/Post/Doc, the theorist and filmmaker who diagnosed how Hollywood reinforced patriarchal codes

At the Courtisane Film Festival, Ghent, Mónica Savirón and María Palacios Cruz's programme of works by neglected women artists

With a strong surrealist strain, and including a welcome number of female artists, highlights from the 48th edition of the photography festival

Three highlights from the New York festival promoting emerging filmmakers

Eduardo Williams’s new documentary focuses on the cruelty of the job market for young people in three different countries

Errol Morris’s new documentary is a touching portrait of photographer Elsa Dorfman

This week’s Culture Digest rounds up some highlights from the 54th New York Film Festival

Jonas Mekas to Maud Alpi to Lina Rodriguez to Júlio Bressane – highlights from the Swiss film festival