Brazil

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

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