After decades in a semi-insular domestic art market, Brazil's artists and dealers are at the forefront of things

Shows on view in museums and galleries across New York, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Paris and London, from the Brazilian art biennial at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo to Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca at the New Museum

As Brazil celebrates its bicentennial this week, we survey the movements that have defined the country's art scene over the past 200 years

The Ipiranga Museum in São Paulo, built at the site where independence from Portugal was declared in 1822, has been closed for nearly a decade

As the October presidential election looms, the Bolsonaro administration is being scrutinised for its poor support of the cultural sector, while opponent Lula promises reform

A long-closed historic institution and a new museum have contracted committees of Indigenous advisors who will contextualise the ancient and present cultures of their tribes

The author, the daughter of Portinari’s one-time assistant, on researching a little-known mural the Brazilian artist made in Paris in the 1950s

Plus, the £50m Joshua Reynolds painting and Michael Heizer’s City

As the first stage of the museum’s restoration project is unveiled, coinciding with the Brazilian bicentennial of independence, its director calls for more government investment