Topic: Diego Rivera

Latin America Monitor Mexico's got theater in unusual spaces

With stages set up in street cars, Mexico City is celebrating its first Festival of Theater in Unusual Spaces and giving a new outlet for the city's emerging artists.

3 new novels about young people on a mission

Characters wonder if they're the right ones for the job in these talked-about new novels.

Mexican presidential election: Why the left is struggling.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the presidential candidate from Mexico's leftist party, is facing an uphill battle for the presidency due to his controversial past and Mexico's unique political history.

Diego Rivera: honoring a big Communist with a Google doodle

President Obama, Occupy protesters, and even the Muppets have been accused of communist leanings.  But Mexican muralist Diego Rivera was the real thing.

Diego Rivera, communist and Mexican icon, honored with Google Doodle

Mexico's most famous mural painter, Diego Rivera, is honored posthumously on his 125th birthday with a Google doodle.

Three "beautiful" Orange Prize finalists

Barbara Kingsolver's "The Lacuna" was one of "three beautiful daughters" agonized over by this year's Orange Prize judges.

Barbara Kingsolver wins the Orange Prize for "The Lacuna"

Barbara Kingsolver's sixth novel – a book that moves between Mexico and the cold war-era US – wins the Orange Prize for fiction.

The Lacuna

The Lacuna

Barbara Kingsolver magnificently re-creates 1930s Mexico City in her first novel in nine years.

The heart of Latin art

It's not just folk, it's fusion. Exhibitions nationwide spotlight a bold and visionary tradition.

Glenn Beck, anti-communist art critic?

Mexican street art with an edge

Oaxaca's art first burst onto the city's walls in 2006 after protesters clashed with police.

Frida Kahlo: a full life, fully expressed

Behind Kahlo's carefully cultivated facade was a person for whom art was a lifeline.