São Paulo's Pinacoteca Mounts a Challenge to Bolsonarista Politics
ArtReview A room devoted to self-portraiture at Pinacoteca de São Paulo. All images: Levi Fanan. Courtesy Pinacoteca de São Paulo Arts institutions formulate a rebuke to the conservative forces currently wreaking havoc in Brasilia – and scrutinise their own historic complicity The leaders of Brazil’s state-funded arts institutions have found themselves in a bind ever since Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right presidency began at the start of 2019. Art was, or at least until the pandemic and Amazon fires took over the political agenda, an easy target for the president and his supporters, who f...
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