Investment led by Laurene Powell Jobs will breathe new life into the shuttered San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) building.

The forthcoming Museo Casa Kahlo, spearheaded by Kahlo's descendants, will open on September 27 and will focus on Frida Kahlo ...

Art history has put aside women artists for a long period of time. Art was a predominantly male-oriented field, so women were ...

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Diego Rivera was one of 20th Century art's towering figures—the Mexican icon who brought mural art onto the world's biggest stages. On the surface, these facts would seem to be unrelated—but ...

Famed artist Diego Rivera was hired and fired by the Rockefellers ... Joshua McHugh In 1933, Rivera, then one of the most famous mural painters in the world, was hired by the Rockefellers to ...

In Mexico City last week Diego Rivera, longtime Communist sympathizer, was brushing in the finishing strokes on a new mural. Its title: The Nightmare of War and the Dream of Peace. Rivera called ...

Before the Mexican artist Diego Rivera became famous for his monumental, socially engaged murals, he traveled to Europe on a government grant in 1907 and spent over a decade experimenting with ...

In 1947 her teacher Andres Sanchez Flores, who was also an assistant to the Mexican painter Diego Rivera, took Lazo ... Earth (1954), one of her most famous murals, depicting an indigenous man ...

Without fanfare, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently changed the date assigned to its rare Diego ... Rivera included Kahlo, his wife and fellow artist, in more than one revolutionary ...