Brazil’s far-right ex-president has destroyed all state cultural programs and blocked funding for institutions and artists, the country’s new culture minister Margaret Menezes said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

Menezes, a popular singer from Bahia, was chosen by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to lead a newly restored ministry that was disbanded by his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, who moved him to the tourism ministry.

“He doesn’t like the culture,” Menezes said of Bolsonaro at a news conference. “My mission is to restore the ministry and cultural policy that have been destroyed,” she said.

Bolsonaro considered artists “outcasts,” she said, and his government cut funding not only to cultural programs but also to institutions that care for Brazil’s historic buildings and cultural heritage.

Menezes, who toured with musician David Byrne in 1990, said Lula committed “generous” resources to restore cultural programs.

Her ministry will also repair and restore art and furniture vandalized by Bolsonaro supporters who stormed government buildings on January 8 demanding a military coup to oust Lula and return him to Bolsonaro.

A Swiss watch company has offered to restore an 18th-century French clock that was destroyed that day by a Bolsonaro supporter, Menezes said.