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Brazilian artists face persecution

mardi 20 novembre 2018 à 01:00

Artists in Brazil are already facing persecution and violence from the religious fanatics that voted for Bolsonaro. Some have already fled the country. Others are trying to resist.

Once Bolsonaro and his allies start mobilizing violence, I fear that many artists will be killed soon. If all he does is eliminate subsidies and tax deductions, that will be quite a relief.

Several of the artists mentioned do conceptual art. I generally find conceptual art uninteresting, because words can express concepts more clearly than ad-hoc symbols. Rather than watch the conceptual art and wonder what the point was, I'd say, "If you write it down in a few lines, I'll read them."