Arte!brasileiros Wins Antônio Bento Award from Brazilian Art Critics Association

The digital and print magazine arte!brasileiros and its editor Patrícia Rousseaux received the Antônio Bento Award from the Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Arte (ABCA) on October 16, 2019, for visual arts media dissemination. The annual ABCA prizes recognize contributions to national culture across multiple categories. The award for media dissemination is named for Antônio Bento de Araújo Lima, a pivotal Brazilian critic who wrote for Diário Carioca and Última Hora, helped found the Associação Internacional de Críticos de Arte (AICA), served as director of Rio de Janeiro's Teatro Municipal, co-founded MAM Rio, and juried major biennials. Other 2019 winners include artist Iran do Espírito Santo (Prêmio Mario Pedrosa), critic Annateresa Fabris (Prêmio Mário de Andrade), curator Cauê Alves for the Burle Marx exhibition at MuBE (Prêmio Maria Eugênia Franco), Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães in Recife (Prêmio Rodrigo Mello Franco de Andrade), and the Tarsila Popular exhibition at MASP (Prêmio Paulo Mendes de Almeida). The magazine, celebrating a decade, runs a digital platform and an International Seminar, launched in 2012, often in partnership with institutions like the Goethe-Institut, to discuss art's contemporary role.