The Burning of a Bandit: Brazil Enters the Statue WarsOliver Bascianoartreview.com26 July 2021Last weekend saw the destruction of a ten-metre memorial to colonialist Borba Gato in São Paulo
Monster! Monster! The Cross-Generational Horror of Ivan Serpa and Yuli YamagataOliver BascianoArtReview20 July 2021Two Brazilian artists channel the fears and anxieties of their times
Brazil’s Black Trans Artists: ‘Peace Is Not an Option’Oliver Bascianoartreview.com29 June 2021An exhibition holds universal truths about the fragility and power of the skin and bones we occupy
Intimate Objects: New Memoirs from Edmund de Waal and Marina WarnerOliver BascianoArtReview28 April 2021Restitution and the long shadows of history preoccupy two leading British authors
‘War Without End’: the Necropolitics of Bolsonaro’s BrazilOliver BascianoArtReview15 April 2021Latin America’s largest cemetery makes apparent the stark reality of the far-right president’s pandemic politics
The Artists Mapping Colonial BrazilOliver BascianoArtReview09 March 2021At a time when indigenous land is once again under attack, exhibitions in São Paulo offer urgent perspectives
The Art of the COVID-19 PhotoshootOliver Bascianoartreview.com12 February 2021One problem throughout the pandemic has been its own invisibility – enter the vaccination portrait: ‘cure as political metaphor’
