In a reversal of fortune for advocates opposed to the sale of a Diego Rivera mural at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and all those concerned with the preservation of public art, the school has ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Diego Rivera once described his paintings as "true and complete pictures of the life of the toiling masses." In the 1920s, the Mexican artist turned from the easel to the centuries-old ...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and City College of San Francisco have reached a settlement regarding the two organizations’ legal battle over “Pan American Unity,” a large mural by renowned ...

A mural by Diego Rivera, “Still Life and Blossoming Almond Trees,” was permanently installed in Doe Library on April 30. The mural previously resided in Stern Hall. The mural’s location was changed in ...

"The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City," painted by Diego Rivera in 1931, sits in a private gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute. The mural was included as part of the sale.

A group of investors led by philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, the wife of late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, has purchased the former site of the historic San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) with the hopes ...

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Diego Rivera-- Murals for the Museum of Modern Art', organized by Leah Dickerman, curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, at the Museum of Modern ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The love story of Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo has played out in books, opera and a Hollywood movie. Mexico City is also a memory lane of their stormy romance, ...

Diego Rivera’s public art and murals in Mexico and the United States made him a sought-after artist. Works such as his multi-panel fresco Detroit Industry Murals (1932–33), at the Detroit Institute of ...

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, which ...