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Mexican Artists Take Over Rock Center For Day of the Dead

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu October 30, 2022October 31, 2022

A catrina of Frida Kahlo, colorful alebrijes, and José Guadalupe Posada’s satirical skeletons are among the unmissable works on view.

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Diego Rivera Mural in San Francisco, Once Slated for Sale, Gets $200K Grant

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu April 27, 2022April 27, 2022

The San Francisco Art Institute’s intentions to sell the work drew swift backlash from vocal critics in 2021. A Mellon Foundation initiative will now support its preservation.

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Mexican Modernism Was More Than Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

by Rosa Boshier March 14, 2022March 15, 2022

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism feeds into the repeated use of Kahlo and Rivera’s work, and the mythology of their romantic relationship, as shorthand for an entire era.

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MFA Houston Acquires Rediscovered Diego Rivera Painting for $4M

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu March 14, 2022March 14, 2022

The work has not been viewed by the public for nearly 100 years.

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Diego Rivera’s Largest Portable Fresco Mural Is Now at SFMOMA

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson July 14, 2021July 14, 2021

The museum has 76 of Rivera’s works, and next summer, many will be on display when it hosts the show Diego Rivera’s America.

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Plan to Sell Diego Rivera Mural at San Francisco Art Institute Draws Backlash

Avatar photo by Sam Lefebvre January 11, 2021January 11, 2021

What the board calls the San Francisco Art Institute’s “most liquid asset” is “not a commodity,” the adjunct faculty union says.

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Shifting the Modernist Center of Gravity to Mexican Muralists

Avatar photo by Leticia Gutiérrez October 27, 2020November 5, 2020

Proposing an overdue historical corrective, Vida Americana is a reminder that neither the US or European avant-garde maintained a monopoly on Modernism.

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A Fashion Duo Draws Inspiration from Detroit’s Labor History

by Sarah Rose Sharp May 16, 2019

For Labor of Love, the Toledos created a series of breathtaking garments, sculptures, paintings, and drawings inspired by various works in the Detroit Institute of Arts’ world-class collection.

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A Journalist’s Year of Sunday Interviews with Diego Rivera

Avatar photo by Karen Chernick February 28, 2019February 27, 2019

Alfredo Cardona Peña’s conversations with the loquacious 63-year-old artist are available for the first time in English.

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New Online Exhibition Chronicles the Many Facets of Frida Kahlo’s Life and Work

Avatar photo by Monica Uszerowicz May 24, 2018May 23, 2018

Faces of Frida, a partnership between Google Arts & Culture and 33 partner museums, brings together some 800 artifacts from ultra-high resolution images of her work to personal objects and rarely-seen photos.

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Why a Diego Rivera Still Life Hangs in Steven Spielberg’s The Post

Avatar photo by Karen Chernick March 2, 2018December 16, 2021

The Cubist painting “No. 9, Nature Morte Espagnole” fits surprisingly well with themes in the Oscar-nominated film.

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The Mexican Modernists Who Found Success in Decadence

by Joseph Nechvatal January 3, 2017January 2, 2017

An exhibition at Paris’s Grand Palais tracks art made in Mexico during the first half of the 20th century, focusing on the influence of the European avant-garde and Mexicans’ celebratory attitude toward death.

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