From 1931-1932, renowned Mexican muralist Diego Rivera and his artist wife Frida Kahlo lived in Detroit, Michigan. During this period, Rivera worked on a mural project at the Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) that would gain him public controversy. Edsel Ford and Diego Rivera Edsel Ford was automobile mogul Henry Ford’s only child and the ...
Frida is a movie about art that is a work of art in itself. The film’s unique visual language takes us into an artist’s head and reminds us that art is best enjoyed when it moves, breathes and is painted on a giant canvas, as only the movies can provide. American Film Institute, 2002, upon ...
Frida Kahlo has been revered as on of the most influential twentieth-century artist of the Americas. Her personal and at times political paintings filled with her own emotional trials of life’s joys and pains has enlightened a whole movement of female artists. Her art has been said to be a symbol of female struggle. She ...
One day in the City of Brotherly Love isn’t anywhere near enough time to get the best of this historic city where the United States was born. Even a week couldn’t do the job adequately. However, if that’s your tight 24-hour schedule, here’s what this old Philadelphian would recommend, keeping in mind that you don’t ...
The first thing you will notice about Mexico City is that it is huge. I remember the first time I flew into the airport. Up into that point, the longest landing approach over a city I had experienced was Los Angeles. If you come into LAX from the east, you are over city for a ...
