Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Alair Gomes discusses at length the nude male photographs that are currently making the rounds. He discusses the range of the subject, from porn to the artistic nude shot, noting how photography is excluded from contemporary art, and comments on the [...]

In this article, the photographer and critic Alair Gomes writes about the controversial eighteenth Bienal de São Paulo (1985), commonly known as the “Grande Tela” [Large Canvas]. According to Gomes, the underlying idea of the biennial is “ [...]