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

SAN FRANCISCO — Spend too much time with the art of Diego Rivera, and you may find yourself quietly tiptoeing over into the art-for-art’s-sake camp. That happened to me, anyway, while ...

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 ...

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in San Francsico, California. Photo: Peter A. Juley & Son. Photo Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institute. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily ...

Without fanfare, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently changed the date assigned to its rare Diego Rivera portrait of Frida Kahlo. LACMA acquired the odd little picture 20 years ago ...

Serving as co-creator as well as costume and set designer was none other than Diego Rivera. The deep dives on Rivera make for compelling viewing in tandem with a separate exhibition in Los Angeles ...

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 ...

Before this year, the last major exhibition dedicated to Diego Rivera was in 1999. That was more than two decades ago. And yet our collective estimation of Rivera hasn’t changed much since then ...

In the 1940s, Mexican artist Diego Rivera had a dream: to build a sacred place to preserve and display his lifelong collection of pre-Hispanic art. The Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City ...

“It’s not love, or tenderness, or affection, it’s life itself, my life, that I found when I saw it in your hands,” wrote Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera, in one of the many missives the couple ...