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 ...

Diego Rivera's "Detroit Industry Murals" are a treasure. But when they were unveiled in the 1930s, they ignited a ferocious debate.

Money to murals. Diego Rivera wasn’t known for traversing the Mission when he lived in San Francisco with his wife, Frida Kahlo, some 90 years ago. It was the Great Depression when the two artists ...

A Diego Rivera mural graces the wall and ceiling of a stairwell at the City Club in San Francisco on Monday April 29, 1996. (Larry Strong/Bay Area News Group archive) ...

The Diego Rivera exhibition marks the eightieth anniversary of his first show at MOMA in 1930 and 1931. He was only the second living artist to be favored by the Museum with a monographic exhibition ...

"The Making of a Fresco" was painted by Diego Rivera in 1931. It's home has always been the San Francisco Art Institute, until the school closed in July due to a series of financial hardships.

The show’s capstone is Rivera’s vast mural, more than 70 feet wide and 22 high, that he painted in front of audiences at the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition.

The financially troubled San Francisco Art Institute has put its campus on sale, and the deal includes a building adorned by a multimillion-dollar mural by famed artist Diego Rivera.

San Francisco Art Institute is sold to a new nonprofit — along with the Diego Rivera mural inside “The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City,” painted by Diego Rivera in 1931, ...

It runs parallel to the museum’s long-term display of “Pan American Unity,” a portable 10-panel fresco Rivera painted in San Francisco in 1940 — his last mural in the U.S.

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 ...