January 11, 2015
July 24, 2014
Rivera
Diego Rivera's “Electric Power” (1931-32) is at the Museum of Modern Art / 2011 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, México, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Art Review of "Time Capsule With Pulse on Present" November 2011
Few people seemed to care that these “portable murals” were not particularly good paintings. Viewers, among them many left-leaning artists, saw Rivera as an apostle of international communism (though one whose exhibition was financed by the Rockefellers). Well acquainted with the details of his six-week art-making spree, which had received plenty of news coverage, they prized the work’s immediacy and authenticity