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The 32th São Paulo Bienal, which ends in December, features works by 81 artists from 33 countries among which 46 are women. This strong presence
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Empower newsletter: Women and LGBT voices from Nigeria
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Desacralizing: Paula Rego’s Abortion Pastels
by Sonia Corrêa When, in 1998, the proposal to legalize abortion in Portugal was defeated in a first referendum, the acclaimed painter Paula Rego produced
Barbara Wagner: bodies as they are
During August, 2016, as the Olympic Games evolved, Brazilian and world screens were flooded with young, beautiful, enhanced, fit, ‘efficient’ bodies that happily competed and
Sex, Satan and the single girl
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