Tag: Oscar Niemeyer

  • How to be Contemporary? An interview with curator Charles Esche

    The selection process for the curator of the 31st São Paulo Biennial had many stages, and lasted months, with the names of more than 10 professionals put forward. In April, it was finally announced that Esche had been chosen. His…

  • A Delicate Game of Cat-and-Mouse

    The experience of art is not merely a matter of looking at it, but thinking and talking about it. For nearly 50 years, English critic and biographer Michael Peppiatt has been getting artists to talk about the art they create,…

  • That Man from Rio: Celebrating Oscar Niemeyer’s Centennial

    Considered to be Brazil’s most important architect, Oscar Niemeyer (b.1907) is also a major figure in the development of modern architecture internationally. He has become a symbol for his country for many reasons: he designed the national capital, Brasília, founded…

  • The Art of Nothing: Ivo Mesquita and the Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo

    The ‘Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo’ is now one of the major international displays of contemporary art, along with two other grand showcases of modern and contemporary art; the estimable ‘Venice Biennale’, first held in 1895; and ‘Documenta’…