DIEGO RIVERA, His LIFE AND TIMES—Bertram D. Wolfe—Knopf ($6).Six years ago in a crowded little top floor room on Manhattan's 14th Street, Painter John Sloan and Walter Pach joined in ...

Fridays, Oct. 4 - 18, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Explore the early life of Frida Kahlo as she discovers her genius for painting following a tragic, life-changing ...

In honor of the special exhibition "Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism," flowers native to Mexico blossom in the gardens at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa on July 30, 2022.

“It’s not love, or tenderness, or affection, it’s life itself, my life, that I found when I saw it in your hands,” wrote Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera, in one of the many missives the couple ...

(© 2024 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), N.Y.) ... Loosely brushed, the portrait was surely painted from memory, not from life.

Alleged mishandling of significant paintings and drawings underscores the need for more transparency—particularly when it ...

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.

My mother, a waitress, was very diligent about figuring out what I was into, so that she could buy me the right books. For my 16th birthday she found The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera, this huge ...

In the 1940s, Mexican artist Diego Rivera had a dream: to build a sacred place to preserve and display his lifelong collection of pre-Hispanic art. The Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, which ...