Women Artists: Berna Reale
SPW has the pleasure to present the work of Pará born (Brazil) artist Berna Reale. Berna is one of the finalists of the 2019 Pipa
Art, risk and deconstruction
– What do humans have to do not to have regret at that last second before we die? That is one of Elizabeth Streb’s moving
“You’ll see me, therefore I exist”: black body and beauty
In the March issue of SPW’s Sexuality & Art, we feature the works of American black artist Mickalene Thomas. She invites us to decolonizing look
Film Commentary Forum: Un Cuento Chino, China in the Global South, and Gender/Sexual Politics
Compiled and edited by Petrus Liu and Lisa Rofel. Originally published at The Center For Emerging Worlds (UC Santa Cruz). Available here. In recent years,
A meeting between Rosana Paulino and Belkis Ayón
In November 2015, on the trail of the “feminist occupations”, we published for the first time the work of the black painter Rosana Paulino, whose
Bodies and words performing in somber times
In a time of mourning, processing and making our best to re-exist in the glooming post-electoral atmosphere in Brazil, SPW brings back to our screens
Changing the world with posters from ’68
The exhibition at MIMA Museum entitled “May ’68 and protest movements in posters” recollects legendary posters used as protesting political vehicles from the sixties. The
QueerMuseum: In Defense of Difference
Text originally published at Artememoria. Available here. Curator Gaudêncio Fidelis on Queermuseum, his exhibition that was closed down because of pressure from the far-right. INTERVIEW
Homoeroticism of the common man
By Sonia Corrêa Last year, in London, I saw a superb retrospective of Bhupen Khakar the Indian painter who died in 2003. I was fascinated.
Painted bodies
“Decisions about your body, your health and your life belong to you, they are your rights, make them true.” These were the slogans of the