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
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The Brazilian artist brought food, film, art and love to her social project
‘What would Jac Leirner do?’
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The importance of art classes; Egon Schiele’s legacy and Hito Steyerl’s favourite films: what to read this weekend
Bolsonaro’s repeated insults towards women, people of colour and the LGBT community, should have been enough to derail his campaign – it wasn’t
In further news: world’s biggest arts venue lands in Taiwan; Brooklyn’s Signal gallery to close
Handing authorship of the biennial to a diverse group of artists is a democratic gesture but conveniently deflects and disperses blame
Protests erupt after the blaze engulfed the 200-year-old museum and its collection of 20 million artefacts
The blaze is thought to have destroyed millions of artefacts, from ancient art to the oldest human skeleton in the Americas
How the radical practices of female artists drove the Modernist movement in Brazil
In further news: MoMA reaches contract agreement with staff; man hospitalized after falling into Anish Kapoor installation
The artist discusses the objects, ideas and artworks that have shaped her practice
From fleshy, distorted paintings, capturing the malaise of the 1960s, to colourful abstractions made in exile, the artist was an example to live by
Already convicted of money laundering and tax evasion, a report makes new claims against the Brazilian collector and founder of Inhotim art park
Where the fight against reactionary conservative activism in Brazil stands ahead of the 2018 presidential elections
