Diego Rivera

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A new kind of history lesson: Mexico, 1921: A Deep Slumber makes you a journalist during a revolution
Focusing on power and politics, this Mácula Interactive docu-game draws on muralists, an assassination and newspaper reporting in painstakingly historically accurate detail

Caitlin Cooper

09, Jan, 2024 @10:00 AM

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The big picture: campesinos unite in Tina Modotti’s Mexico
The contemporary of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo uses her art to highlight peasant farmers fighting for agrarian reform in this 1927 picture

Tim Adams

12, Nov, 2023 @7:00 AM

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Separate bedrooms: the secret to a happy life – and now with royal approval
Not having to put up with Charles’s snoring or Camilla nicking the duvet has apparently done wonders for the regal relationship. Could it work for the rest of us?

10, Jul, 2023 @3:31 PM

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Frida & Diego: Love & Revolution exhibition – a glimpse of Kahlo’s true genius
This beautiful show is packed with works by Kahlo, Rivera and their Mexican contemporaries – but it is missing the darker side of her life story

Jane Howard

26, Jun, 2023 @3:00 PM

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Frida Kahlo’s husband may have helped her die, reveals Diego Rivera’s grandson
The revered Mexican artist’s suffering was so great, she ‘probably’ asked her soulmate to assist in ending her life, documentary is told

Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent

11, Feb, 2023 @3:00 PM

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Diego Rivera by Francisco de la Mora and José Luis Pescador review – rumbustious hymn to a radical artist
The eventful life of Frida Kahlo’s revolutionary husband makes for a rich, energetic graphic biography

Rachel Cooke

01, Feb, 2022 @9:00 AM

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Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up review – forget the paintings, here's her false leg
V&A, London
By focusing on Kahlo’s life and her suffering rather than her art, this memorabilia-stuffed exhibition stifles her blazing visionary brilliance

Jonathan Jones

12, Jun, 2018 @10:22 AM

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'An exceptional sale': dazzling Rockefeller collection could fetch $1bn
Sprawling private collection of 1,600 of David Rockefeller’s items will go on auction at Christie’s – and could break records

Oliver Laughland in New York

04, May, 2018 @1:36 PM

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The big picture: Frida Kahlo in New York, 1939
The artist wearing traditional Mexican costume photographed by her Hungarian-born lover Nickolas Muray at the end of their secret affair

Tim Adams

17, Mar, 2018 @6:00 PM

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Frida Kahlo's intimate belongings go on display at the V&A
More than 200 items on show include artist’s makeup, clothes, jewellery – and a prosthetic leg

Mark Brown Arts correspondent

08, Mar, 2018 @12:01 AM

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'My body shall be all yours': the startling sex letters of Joyce, Kahlo and O'Keeffe
An eye-wateringly explicit new stage show celebrates erotic correspondence sent by famous figures through the ages

Holly Williams

02, May, 2017 @6:00 AM

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Picasso and Rivera review – a lifelong conversation between artistic frenemies
Lacma’s winter show, Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time, parallels the European modern master with Mexico’s most revered muralist

Jordan Riefe

09, Dec, 2016 @9:00 PM

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