Tag: Diego Rivera

  • Frida: The Making of an Icon

    Don’t be distracted by the unnecessary fillers and ‘Fridamania’ paraphernalia – the 30-plus works by Kahlo, hidden among this dross, more than hold their own

  • Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-45

    Following the Mexican Revolution of 1920, art that reflected the country’s traditions and social ideals blossomed – and, for a while, the US fervently embraced it

  • Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde

    Modern Couples attempts to retell the story of the modernist avant-garde through creative relationships. But is its intellectual impact marred by its massive scale?

  • Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up

    This exhibition offers a lesson in why you shouldn’t feed popular morbid curiosity at the expense of respect for the person behind the legend. Nevertheless, Frida Kahlo’s paintings still shine out from amid the costumes, prosthetics and pill packets

  • Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera

    Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 9 July–8 October 2011

  • Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction

    Tate Modern, London 22 June-1 October 2006 Kunstmuseum, Basel 21 October 2006-4 February 2007 For decades, art history taught us that Kandinsky was the greatest pioneer of abstract art, the artist who removed the subject matter from painting. The great…

  • Breaking the Myths

    Modigliani and His Models Royal Academy of Arts, London 8 July-15 October 2006 Amedeo Modigliani’s (1884-1920) premature death at the age of 35, as a consequence of bohemian excess, overshadowed a proper analysis of his work for many years. His…

  • Frida Kahlo

    Tate Modern, London 9 June – 9 October 2005

  • Inventing Race: Casta Painting and Eighteenth Century Mexico

    La invención del mestizaje: La pintura de castas y el siglo XVIII en México Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA 4 April-8 August 2004