The Italian architect, who made Brazil her "adopted home", designed the eclectic São Paulo museum in the late 1940s

As one of the biggest employers in the area, the vast open-air culture complex wants to support victims

The São Paulo collector James Kung Wei Li, whose father was a Chinese ambassador in South America, says the donation is his family’s repayment for American educational largesse

For a struggling institution, the price is short of earlier estimates

The departments of culture, sports and social development have merged

The colossal work, one of the first arachnid sculptures the artist made, has embarked on a multi-city tour

With partnerships with the Smithsonian and Google as well as donations, the institution soldiers on

The organisation oversees the city’s international exhibition, as well as the country’s representation at the Venice Biennale and other projects

Brazil’s cultural sector must respond to hard-right politics by reconnecting with the wider community

Country's galleries are out in force at the fair after far-right Jair Bolsonaro's election

Meanwhile, the museum partners with a Chinese tech firm to digitise its catalogued collection

The former army captain's apparent leanings toward authoritarianism and his fundamentalist views have arts professionals feeling wary

New far-right president wants to remove the country’s ministry of culture

The New Zealand-born artist’s show at the Barbican Art Gallery reflects her diverse approach to materials, including a rare Brazilian rubber called balata

While most of its collection is still buried under rubble, the institution begins the long road to restoration with displays of stored works that were spared from the fire

This will be no easy task and will require a broad coalition of forces

Much more was lost than objects and papers when the National Museum burned down

Swedish artist Mamma Andersson brings marginalised practitioners, including Chicago recluse Henry Darger, to the fore

Amid melee at Rio's National Museum, museology students begin project to digitise the institution

Budget cuts and negligence blamed for the blaze

The arts park maintains momentum as Bernardo Paz appeals a nine-year sentence for laundering donations

The exhibition was revived thanks to one of the country’s biggest crowdfunding campaigns, which raised more than $250,000

Conservators have used the method on a ceremonial cape made by the Tupinambá—a cannibalistic tribe from Brazil

The ministries of culture and transportation are now setting up a commission to create clear guidelines for objects coming into the country for cultural events

Exhibition at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil mixes "traditional and modern, colonial and post-colonial, local and global"

São Paulo galleries have survived the country’s crises with a mix of adaptation and collaboration

Recent appreciation of artist challenges 'illusion that we have come to terms with variety of Modern art'

Two major shows had been planned but only Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil's is taking place after Masp cancelled

Vienna’s Weltmuseum criticised for displaying a trophy head

He denies money laundering charges, saying non-profit organisation is audited and operates independently from his companies