Diego Rivera created one of the museum's signature works, The Detroit Industry murals. Rivera himself called the massive murals his greatest works. Rivera created his Detroit murals between April ...

Virtually all metro Detroiters today agree that Diego Rivera's "Detroit Industry Murals" in the Detroit Institute of Arts are among the region’s greatest treasures. But the unveiling of the ...

On July 25, 1932, renowned artist Diego Rivera began painting one of his most complex artworks – the Detroit Industry Murals. The murals consist of 27 panels across four walls in what is now ...

“Everybody goes to the Sistine Chapel when they’re in Rome. When they’re in Detroit, they come to see our Diego Rivera.” The museum has a huge collection of American art going back to ...

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 ...

Diego Rivera, born in 1886 ... The American Stock Exchange Luncheon Club and the Detroit Institute of the Arts. He was commissioned to paint a mural at the Rockefeller Center in New York City ...

Kahlo and Rivera were in Detroit as he produced his famed "Detroit Industry Murals" for the DIA. One of Diego's assistants, Lucienne Bloch, watched the 1932 eclipse with Kahlo and Rivera and kept ...

It's no wonder curators put Detroit, one of the main industrial centers of the world during the 1930s, on the Diego Rivera map of America. While curators could not move his murals from locations ...

Without fanfare, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently changed the date assigned to its rare Diego Rivera portrait of ... New York, Detroit, San Francisco and elsewhere internationally.

Diego Rivera, born in 1886 ... The American Stock Exchange Luncheon Club and the Detroit Institute of the Arts. He was commissioned to paint a mural at the Rockefeller Center in New York City ...