As part of the social counterrevolution under way in America and globally, the Detroit Institute of Arts, which houses the Rivera Court ... The north wall automotive panel composition focused ...

Rivera's star would never shine brighter. The awe-inspiring "Detroit Industry" murals that he would create at the DIA remain for many ... Kahlo throws up a wall. In "Self-Portrait on the ...

Between July 1932 and March 1933, the Mexican artist completed the murals on all four walls of the DIA's Garden Court ... South Americas, management and labor, and the cosmic and technological ...

Foster, a conservator at the Detroit Institute of Arts, was among a team of experts ... going to paint only two walls of the Garden Court, but Rivera was so inspired by the scenes he saw at ...

The man is officially described as “Detroit acquaintance of Rivera,” or, sometimes the “unknown figure” in various Detroit Institute of Arts material ... on the north wall; one of 10 ...

It’s strangely fitting, then, that DIA’s first major exhibition since ... Today it’s often noticed in the Rivera Court, where these paintings are — I’ve often heard it myself, but ...

Rivera created his Detroit murals between April 1932 and March 1933 on what was then a garden courtyard at the recently opened new museum building. Today the room is known as the Rivera Court ...

As is demonstrated with her photograph of Diego Rivera’s South wall mural, ‘Corrido de Revolucion’, at Mexico’s Ministry of Education, Modotti used her camera to endorse Rivera’s account of the ...