Diego Rivera Retakes it’s place at MOMA
Por Rafael Mathus CORRESPONSAL NUEVA YORK.- Luego de 80 años, Diego Rivera volvió ayer a reclamar un lugar estelar en las paredes del...
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Leonora Carrington dies at 94 in Mexico
La artista es velada en la funeraria J. García López del Pedregal, antes de ser llevada al Panteón Británico Ciudad de México (26 mayo...
Read MoreFrida Kahlo’s father wasn’t Jewish after all
(English) 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
(English) 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
(English) 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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