Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this essay presenting an exhibition of work by Anna Barros, Agnaldo Farias asserts that this artist’s production returns vital and primary elements to the universe of myth. He comments on the expansiveness and specificity of works that place the [...]

This text is an interview with João Cândido Galvão, curator of the XXI São Paulo Biennial, by Norma Freire and Agnaldo Farias. In it, Galvão discusses some of the problems that complicated the organization of the biennial, including [...]

This article by art critic Agnaldo Farias discusses the first solo exhibition of painter Caetano de Almeida at the Thomas Cohn gallery in Rio de Janeiro in 1989. After acknowledging that de Almeida addresses many of the same themes as Nelson Leirner [...]

Curator Agnaldo Farias makes use of the image suggested in the story “A terceira margem do rio,” by João Guimarães Rosa. He applies this image to a discussion of the issues that affected the selection of works to represent Brazil in the [...]

Agnaldo Farias wrote the text presenting the exhibition Galeria Luisa Strina: 20 anos de arte brasileira, held at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) in 1994. According to Farias, the show of artists still active who had previously exhibited work [...]