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 ...

It’s one of the most iconic places in Detroit: The fantastic Diego Rivera Detroit Industry mural covering all four walls in the Garden Court at the Detroit Institute of Arts. When the 27 ...

Rivera was already famous when he and his wife, artist Frida Kahlo, arrived in New York for the MoMA commission. Born in 1886, Rivera had studied painting in Europe in the early 1900s.

Weighing over 60,000 pounds and covering nearly 1,800 square feet, the mural had been embedded in the Diego Rivera Theater at CCSF since 1961. The masterpiece was in storage 20 years prior to that.

Mexico’s Diego Rivera murals get restoration treatment. July 29, 2009 8:32 AM PT . ... was also an active communist and husband of the equally famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

JASON BEAUBIEN, BYLINE: Mexico City houses some of Diego Rivera's most famous murals, but it's also home to many lesser-known projects by this prolific artist.

The iconic Detroit Industry murals painted by Mexican artist Diego Rivera in the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Garden Court (since renamed Rivera Court) between 1932–33 were designated a National ...

Two firms have been selected to erect a new building on the campus of City College of San Francisco (CCSF) to house, among other things, Diego Rivera’s famous Pan-American Unity mural of 1940.

Nelson Rockefeller commissioned Diego Rivera to paint a mural for Rockefeller Center, but the end result proved too political to stay on the walls. Allison McNearney Published Dec. 24 2016 12:00AM EST ...

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 ...

The Mexican muralist Diego Rivera painted in New York City, San Francisco, Detroit, Europe and the Soviet Union. But some of Rivera's most famous murals and most unusual projects are found in ...