An effort to expose state-sanctioned torture offers tools for stemming further impunity.
Brazil
The possibility of an encounter between Brazil's Dom Pedro II and Frederick Douglass in 1876 raises questions about what might have been.
Brazil's fashion activist is breaking molds on the catwalk.
"The exhibition seems to ask, what happens when we do not check our worst instincts?" writes Jonas Albro in Arte Fuse.
"Miceli’s interest in what she calls 'impenetrable' landscapes raises questions not only about photography's literal and figurative stakes but also its technical and philosophical capacities," says Louis Bury about Projeto Chernobyl.
"It’s a haunting and fitting disjunction for trying to comprehend such severe, man-made devastation," says The New York Times.
Culture wars – not free markets – have been the driving force behind Brazil’s new diplomacy. That could change in 2020.