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’

Arts funding and the recent elections in Brazil

Silas Martí is a contributing-editor of frieze based in São Paulo, and staff visual arts, architecture and design writer at Folha de S.Paulo newspaper.

The legacy of one of Brazil's greatest architects

Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil

Conflict, communion and making human presence resonate in the landscape

Tropical Modernism and the ‘potential of nostalgia’; photographs, prints and new layers of memory

Infighting and a shortfall in funding means that next year’s Bienal will be postponed to 2011

Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil

Recent scandal at the bankrupt Brazilian museum

Instituto de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo