• Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism review – spot the standouts in lavish display of bafflingly weak art

    Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism review – spot the standouts in lavish display of bafflingly weak art
    Royal Academy, London
    Harking back to a wartime RA show, this mishmash of 20th-century Brazilian art, much of it in thrall to European modernism, ends exactly where it should begin…A warning at the outset – the birth of modernism, in Brasil! Brasil! at the Royal Academy, does not mean the actual baby. You will not be flying down to Rio in the 60s. There will be no cool constructions by Lygia Pape or fluttering sculptures by Hélio Oiticica, no hint of Oscar Niemeyer’s sw

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