THE BULL'S EYE

The thread of the mystery lay in the eye of the bull in Slave Ship (Navio Negreiro), a triptych by Di Cavalcanti displayed at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro. Suddenly, Alesão turned pale. She felt a chill in her stomach. In the lower right corner of the central panel, the bull’s eye was located in the center of its forehead, as in Guernica, by Picasso. Meanwhile, the PCC was feeding black caimans in Barra da Tijuca with Bolsonaro supporters, and Jair Messias Bolsonaro himself was on the menu.