Disputed Tower mural to be removed Oct 24, 2009
You're in the - - section. Mural controversy, vandalism bring about artwork's end as church decides to paint it over. (Fresno Bee)
Street art in the Mission Aug 21, 2009
The monumental work was painted by seven master muralists and has become an international symbol of women's achievements. 24th Street corridor, walking east on 24th Street from Mission. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Colorful 'Dreaming Cows' display encourages interaction Aug 17, 2009
She had personal encounters with Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, David Alfredo Siquieros and Rufino Tamayo, and after leaving the institute, she worked in Mexico painting murals in Otomi Indian villages. To learn more about Heifer International, visit www. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Critic' picks in the visual arts Jun 21, 2009
VIDA Y DRAMA: MODERN MEXICAN PRINTS A concise, rewarding survey of printmaking in Mexico from the time of the great muralists (Rivera, Siqueiros, and Orozco) through 1957. Through Nov. 2. (Boston Globe)
'Vida y Drama' works retain their feel of mass impact Jun 5, 2009
Founded in 1937, the TGP was Mexico City's best known printmaking workshop, and its practitioners, six of whom are included here, found inspiration in the muralists (although at least one of them, the brilliant Leopoldo M. ndez, had little time for the political posturing of Rivera and Siqueiros, if we can take his satirical wood engravings here at face value). (Boston Globe)
'Viva Mexico!' shows how Edward Weston was transformed Jun 5, 2009
In its ability to achieve powerful ideological effects with the simplest of means, her "Manos de trabajador, Mexico" (Worker's Hands, Mexico") shows her affinity with the contemporary Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.There are four nudes Weston took of Modotti on the roof of their Mexico City house. Aesthetically, he had the heart of a clinician: He revered form. He wanted to show, to present, to render the thing in itself. Libidinally, though,... (Boston Globe)
Exhibits show off Mexico's picturesque side May 17, 2009
The first will focus on prints made between 1926 and 1933 by Rufino Tamaya and the three great Mexican muralists, Rivera, Siqueiros, and Orozco. The second will present work from the '30s and '40s by the Taller de Grfica Popular (People's Graphic Workshop) as well as two 1957 works by Alberto Beltrn, both called "Vida y Drama" (hence the show's title). (Boston Globe)
Pontiac's Summer Bash scores rare attraction: A beer tent Apr 11, 2009
That changes in June, after the City Council approved a beer tent for Summer Bash, an event that combines Heritage Days, car shows and professional muralists. The 100 artists who comprise Walldogs will produce about 17 murals on the walls of downtown buildings. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
San Francisco takes its street art indoors Mar 11, 2009
" Although he developed the sketches long before Barack Obama was sworn in as president, he said, the election of the country's first African-American president makes the mural as relevant as ever. The mythic sense of power and leadership, the ability to save the nation with which the people endowed Washington and Jefferson applies to Obama as well, he said. Today in Culture Yet because Obama's success is exceptional, he added, it will remain problematic until it becomes common. "I think one... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
