DIEGO RIVERA

The engrossing ‘Diego Rivera’s America’ celebrates the Mexican maestro’s influence, but also shows his slide into political peril — and kitsch.

Artists in a small Mexican town are using their talents to revive muralism, a movement that put the country at the vanguard of art a century ago.

Painters have long been the subject of stage shows — think Mark Rothko, Seurat, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Lucian Freud.

A Mexican multi-millionaire is building a replica of his northern Mexico mansion to serve as a museum for his art collection, an endeavor criticized because it is funded in large part with public money.

The self-portrait was one of the Mexican painter's last self-portraits before her death.

Ojalá que los que tuvieron esta ‘genial idea’ también les pasen los aviones por su cabeza las 24 horas del día. Muchos creen que las nuevas rutas son complejas y molestas para los habitantes, y que traerán a futuro problemas importantes. Larriva Sahd concuerda que el sistema debió implementarse hace mucho: “México tiene 20 años de retraso en la instalación del PBN [navegación basada en el ‘performance’]. (Melanie Slone/Zenger)Salazar Eguiluz coincide en que el sistema PBN es de alta precisión, por lo que en ese sentido, no habría riesgo. “Primero, la razón para hacer el rediseño es diferente a la que declararon, que era la de ‘modernizar el espacio aéreo’.

The emblematic Catrina, an elegantly dressed character with a woman’s body and skull face, is an icon of Mexican identity. Since then, a skull dressed in fancy clothes became a burlesque reminder of the constant and silent threat of death. He immortalized the stylishly dressed Catrina in his “Dream of a Sunday” mural, currently in the Diego Rivera Mural Museum in downtown Mexico City. Today, Mexicans call stylish female skeletons catrinas, and they feature these characters as decorative motifs on the Day of the Dead. and Ganesh LakshmanThe post The Genesis of Catrina, Mexico’s Satiric Queen of the Dead appeared first on Zenger News.