I arrived in São Paulo at the opening of the São Paulo Biennial, back in September 2025, when the city’s attention was momentarily drawn inward, toward the pavilion, toward curated spaces, toward a global conversation shaped by institutions and carefully constructed narratives. The energy was palpable. Artists, curators, collectors, students, and visitors moved through the exhibitions with a sense of urgency, aware of the temporary nature of what they were witnessing. When I returned after the Biennial had closed in early 2026, the atmosphere had shifted. The crowds had dispersed, the works dismantled, and the carefully orchestrated experience had dissolved into memory. What remained, however, was something far more constant, something that had not required an opening, nor acknowledged a closing. Just outside the pavilion walls, and throughout the city, another exhibition persisted. It … [Read more...] about FROM EPHEMERAL TO ENDURING: SÃO PAULO’S GRAFFITI AS THE CITY’S LIVING CANVAS

Robert Brodesky has been making his art since his 20s when as a younger man he was convinced that was what he should do. He grew up in Brooklyn New York and his large figures drawn with chalk and painted with acrylic are like saints from urban sidewalks. He works from an inner memory, no models, just the flow of life well observed and cherished. The title of his recently completed solo show, “What Remains Unsaid,” implies that these images are snapshots of imagined narratives, where the couples or individuals have history and may or may not have a future.” I was spellbound by their scale, audacity, confidence and beauty when I entered the gallery at the James Library & Center for the Arts, its formal room with Greek scroll ornament wallpaper somber gray walls and generous windows the perfect space for Brodesky’s exhibit or recent works that are heroic, truthful and loaded with … [Read more...] about ROBERT BRODESKY’S IMAGINED NARRATIVES