Summary
There was no "Occupy Wall Street" movement when the Museum of Modern Art began planning an exhibit to commemorate the 80th anniversary of its Diego Rivera retrospective, and yet the timing now seems prescient. Who better to evoke the feelings of the dispossessed than the great Mexican muralist?
"Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art" is a small but unusual exhibit. The five central pieces are of a format -- portable fresco murals -- that was perfected for the original exhibit in 1931. There are interesting technical things to learn about this, but this is not nearly as interesting as the show's story line, especially in light of the current dialogue about social class and power.See the full content of this document
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Rivera's Murals Remain Relevant
What seems so startling today is that an avowed communist artist whose work was not really very "modernist" would be given a show at MoMA and welcomed by the city's upper-class cultural elite d...
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