Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this article, the architect Lina Bo Bardi describes the ten years it took to design and build the MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo) on the Avenida Paulista in São Paulo. She mentions her first visits to the site in 1957, the political [...]

The Italian journalist and art dealer Pietro Maria Bardi describes the organization and construction of the MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo) during the first two decades of its existence, from 1947 to 1967. This was no easy task in the provincial [...]

This article discusses the initiative to open regional art museums in key Brazilian cities other than the hegemonic centers of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The force behind the project was newspaper magnate Assis Chateaubriand who had [...]

This is an editorial that was published in the Jornal Artes Plásticas, in São Paulo, in the 1940s, an essential period in terms of establishing museums in Brazil. This text is a record of the phenomenon that led to São Paulo’s construction of [...]

This is an article about the Escola de Desenho Industrial at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP). Though still in its infancy, the field of industrial design in Brazil in the 1950s offered an excellent opportunity to those who wanted to fuse the [...]

This is a report on the underlying reasons for the founding of the Instituto de Arte Contemporânea del Museu de Arte de São Paulo (IAC-MASP). The article highlights the pedagogical mission of the MASP under its director Pietro Maria Bardi. It also [...]

In this article in HABITAT magazine, the architect Jacob Ruchti introduces the industrial design course at the recently opened IAC (Instituto de Arte Contemporânea) at the MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo). The article discusses the professional [...]

This is a promotional pamphlet for the course on Industrial Design at the IAC (Instituto de Arte Contemporânea) at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo. It offers information on the first and second years of study, optional courses, and the professors [...]

Waldemar Cordeiro, one of the major figures in Brazilian visual arts, provides a broad overview of events in that field in the early 1950s, a key decade in the history of the arts in Brazil. Cordeiro lists the exhibitions, courses, and conferences [...]