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May 15, 2013 | Artists, Publications

A Modern Way to Explore Three Great Figures of Mexican Art

Posted by Hannah Kim, Marketing and Book Development Coordinator, Department of Publications Tauni Malmgren, Freelance Social Media Coordinator

Taking monumental frescos to a multitouch screen, MoMA’s eBook Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Josè Clemente Orozco offers a fresh exploration of three great figures in the revival of mural painting that brought modern Mexican art to international attention after the Mexican Revolution of 1910–20.

May 4, 2012 | Artists, Five for Friday

Five for Friday: Mexican Muralists on Cinco de Mayo

Posted by Bonnie Mackay, Director of Creative and Marketing, the MoMA Stores

Five for Friday, written by a variety of MoMA staff members, is our attempt to spotlight some of the compelling, charming, and downright curious works in the Museum’s rich collection.

April 30, 2012 | International Program, MoMA Stores

Good Neighbor Policy: The History of a Long Friendship between MoMA and Mexico

Posted by Jay Levenson, Director, International Program

Diego Rivera. Agrarian Leader Zapata. 1931. Fresco on reinforced cement in galvanized-steel framework. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund

This year marks the 150^th anniversary of the Mexican army’s defeat of French troops at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, known colloquially today as Cinco de Mayo. It is now commemorated far north of the border, as Americans have embraced the date as a colorful celebration of Mexican art, food, and music.

April 26, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Videos

Diego Rivera and the Rockefellers

Posted by Jodi Roberts, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture

Rivera’s partnership with the Rockefeller family continues to be one of the most intriguing artist/patron relationships of the 20th century. The research we completed for the exhibition Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art offered the chance to take a closer look at this unlikely collaboration

March 13, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

A Tour of New York City with Diego Rivera

Posted by Jodi Roberts, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture

Diego Rivera. Pneumatic Drill (cartoon for Pneumatic Drilling). 1931. Charcoal on paper, 97 1/4 x 76 7/8″ (247 x 195.2 cm). Museo Dolores Olmedo, Xochimilco, Mexico. © 2012 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, México, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Diego Rivera was enthralled with New York City from the moment he arrived here in November 1931, six weeks before the opening of his retrospective exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.

February 1, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Conservation

Diego Rivera: How to Make a Portable Mural

Posted by Jodi Roberts, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture

Diego Rivera. Agrarian Leader Zapata. 1931. Fresco on reinforced cement in a galvanized-steel framework, 93 3/4 x 74

The focus of the exhibition Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art, currently on view on the second floor, is a set of “portable murals” Rivera made for his retrospective exhibition at MoMA in 1931.

November 28, 2011 | Events & Programs, Family & Kids

¡MoMA’s Teen Muralistas!

Posted by Calder Zwicky, Assistant Director, Teen and Community Partnerships

A Chuck Close-inspired collaborative drawing

Taking inspiration from the current Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art exhibition, the teens enrolled in this fall’s ¡Muralistas! Large-Scale Painting from Around the World workshop have been exploring the power and the excitement of creating enormous public art.

December 3, 2009 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

A Close Look: Frida Kahlo’s Fulang-Chang and I

Posted by Veronica Roberts, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting of Sculpture

Frida Kahlo. Fulang-Chang and I. 1937

When curators Leah Dickerman, Luis Pérez-Oramas, and I began to discuss our plans for creating a new gallery dedicated to Mexican Modernist art made in the 1930s and 1940s—which opened in May of this year—Frida Kahlo’s Fulang-Chang and I was one of the works we were determined to include. We were intent not only to show the painting, but also to display it alongside the mirror that Kahlo made to accompany it, for reasons I’ll elaborate on a bit later.