ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2023 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 4/30/2024 Danny Lyon at Photobook AustinDATE 4/30/2024 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Roger A. Deakins with James Ellis Deakins and Matthew Heineman on 'Byways'DATE 4/25/2024 Joshua Charow's 'Loft Law' documents the last of NYC's original artist loftsDATE 4/25/2024 Join us at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair 2024!DATE 4/25/2024 The Strand presents Joshua Charow in conversation with Wendy Goodman for the launch of 'Loft Law'DATE 4/24/2024 Bungee Space presents Set Margins’ 6-Book Launch and Get TogetherDATE 4/21/2024 Time & Space Limited presents "Memory as Various: Bernadette Mayer's 'Memory'"DATE 4/20/2024 Heads up on 4/20!DATE 4/18/2024 Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive presents Pyramid Pioneers with 'We Started a Nightclub' signingDATE 4/18/2024 A birthright and a legacy in Ivan McClellan's 'Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture'DATE 4/14/2024 Vintage 'Audio Erotica' from Jonny TrunkDATE 4/13/2024 Unnameable Books presents "Reading from Bernadette Mayer's 'Memory'"DATE 4/13/2024 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth presents Heather McCalden and Cyrus Dunham launching 'The Observable Universe: An Investigation' | BOOKS IN THE MEDIACORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/14/2014Favelization: The Imaginary Brazil in Contemporary Film, Fashion and DesignThis week in the Huffington Post, Maria Gabriela Brito reviews Favelization, the Cooper-Hewitt's newest ebook in the DesignFile series. Brito interviews author Adriana Kertzer about the practice and ethics of "marketing luxury goods and exotic experiences based on the idea of life in the favelas." Kertzer responds, "A discussion about favelization (which I define as the use of references to Brazilian slums to brand luxury items as "Brazilian") requires that we address the difference between the meanings attached to favelas in Brazil and those employed by companies and individuals using references to favelas in the marketing of high-end products. Favelization also raises questions about the myths of racial democracy and intersocial class cordiality common in mainstream discourse about Brazil. Discrimination based on race, socioeconomic background, and place of residence are a reality in Brazil, as well as government inaction, mismanagement and corruption. |