Diego Rivera Retakes it’s place at MOMA
By Rafael Mathus CORRESPONDENT NEW YORK .- After 80 years, Diego Rivera returned yesterday to claim a star on the walls of the Museum of...
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Leonora Carrington dies at 94 in Mexico
MEXICO CITY—British-born painter, writer and sculptor Leonora Carrington, considered one of the last of the original surrealists, has...
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Detroit was muse to legendary artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo
Louis Aguilar / The Detroit News They are Detroit legends, despite living here for less than a year. Seventy-nine years ago, Mexican...
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Frida Kahlo’s father wasn’t Jewish after all
or decades now, ever since an international revival of interest in the paintings and life of Mexico’s Frida Kahlo, art historians and critics, including this writer, have been writing that Frida’s photographer father was Jewish, possibly of Hungarian origin. A new book devoted to Guillermo Kahlo and his photography reveals that he had no Jewish genes and stemmed from a long line of German Protestants
Read MoreDiego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits, 1913-1917 at the Meadows Museum
Rivera said he literally heard bells. But that was probably just nerve damage, and if indeed there was a real epiphany, it didn’t precipitate his abandonment of reclining female figures but rather the end of a five-year fling with Cubism, one chronicled in Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits, 1913-1917, at the Meadows Museum through September 20.
Read MoreAn experiment in cannibalism
In 1904, wishing to extend my knowledge of human anatomy, a basic requisite for my painting, I took a course in that subject in the Medical School in Mexico City. At that time, I read of an experiment which greatly interested me.
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