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A detail from the north wall of Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry murals shows workers on the automobile assembly line. After Detroit declared bankruptcy, the murals were at risk of being sold. This weekend, visitors to the Detroit Institute of Arts buzzed with excitement over a new exhibit — it was a big ...
When we get to talking about HBO and Sling, about cord-cutting and the future of television, we tend to focus on the advantages of being able to pick out only the core channels you watch most; the ones you know you love. Now and then, though, I'm glad for the vast array of channels that are trying different things with different people, serving ...
Happy Lovers (c. 1760-65) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, is one of about 800 objects that American art collector Norton Simon purchased from Joseph Duveen. Over the years, Simon sold most of the collection off, but about 130 objects remain at the Norton Simon Museum in California. British art dealer Joseph Duveen once said, rather ...
Frida Kahlo's passion for food was evident in her many still lifes of fruit, like this painting entitled "The Bride Frightened at Seeing Life Opened." She was also known for her raucous dinner parties in Mexico City. The life of Frida Kahlo seems tailor-made for an opera: pain, love, art, travel and revolution. So the Michigan Opera Theater's decision ...
Diego Rivera recreated his Rockefeller Center mural for Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes. Man, Controller of the Universe shows a worker at the crossroads of industry, science and the competing political ideologies of the time — capitalism and communism. It's been called one of the great rivalries of the art world — a clash between ...
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