Museum
Pinacoteca de São Paulo
Century-old fine-arts museum whose long-term collection show confronts whose art it left in storage.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Pinacoteca de São Paulo opens with a stark count: no woman of color had a solo retrospective in the museum's century of collecting Brazilian art, until January 2019, when curators hung the work of Rosana Paulino. It follows her twenty-five years stitching apart and resewing old photographs of Black bodies for a show titled A Costura da Memória, one wall lined with over a thousand small amulet-shaped portraits drawn from her own family archive. Listen for her own explanation of why the show mattered.
This audio guide was created using AI.