Diego Rivera, born in 1886, was one of the leaders of the Mexican Mural Movement of the 1920s. A member of the Communist party, he created popular political murals throughout Mexico that often ...

Despite the backing of Mexican political leaders, their work turned out to be too provocative in some places outside the country: A mural Rivera painted in New York’s Rockefeller Center was ...

Shortly after the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) ... Visit the Detroit Institute of Arts for a guided tour of Diego Rivera's murals. Revisit this 2014 Somos Hispanos segment.

On “Diego Rivera: Mural for The Museum of Modern Art” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The murals of Diego Rivera. by. ... It is no detraction from Rivera’s status as a great artist that his ...

Five days a week, Will Maynez makes a pilgrimage from his Mission District home to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to view a massive Diego Rivera mural. The piece by the famed Mexican ...

Juana Alicia Araiza, well known for her Mission murals, grew up in Detroit, and she remembers skipping school as a teenager to hang out by the Diego Rivera mural in the Detroit Institute of Arts. When ...

“Pan American Unity,” the famous mural by the prominent Mexican artist Diego Rivera, is a masterpiece rich with details. Housed at the bottom floor of the Museum of Modern Art at San Francisco ...

Plus, on view currently, the restored 1,628-square-foot mural “Pan American Unity” that Rivera and his assistants created in 1940 at the Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island.

In the wake of the country’s long and bloody revolution (1910-20), Mexican education minister José Vasconcelos tapped Rivera for a series of mural commissions in government buildings that were ...

A visitor to LACMA takes a picture of the museum’s sole Diego Rivera portrait of Frida Kahlo. Recently discovered evidence has led to new ideas about when the piece was painted — and why.

Diego Rivera, born in 1886, was one of the leaders of the Mexican Mural Movement of the 1920s. A member of the Communist party, he created popular political murals throughout Mexico that often ...