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Rosanna Y. Alfaro '60, a playwright and author, and Daryl N. Chinn, a poet-teacher-editor, also performed their writings...
...Spanish conquista in the 16th century; the impact of the Baroque and the growth of a Mexican (as distinct from imported Spanish) artistic consciousness in the 17th century; and so on to the major Mexican artists of the early 20th century, Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Kahlo and Rufino Tamayo. (Artists born after 1910 are not included.) Wisely, the Met sells the catalog at the end of the show, not the beginning. Packed with illustrations, scholarly essays and an introduction by the great Mexican writer Octavio Paz, it weighs just under 7 1/2 lbs., and should have...
...This happened with the confluence of modernism, Marxism and nostalgia for the fresco cycles of pre-Hispanic antiquity that turned in the 1920s, under the patronage of Mexico's Minister of Education Jose Vasconcelos, into the mural movement: Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. The special value of this show is that instead of treating these Big Three as isolated characters, it presents a dozen or more other Mexican artists of the time in some depth -- starting with the spectacularly gifted Saturnino Herran, who would certainly be as celebrated today as Rivera himself...
...Emerson hall speech before about 40 students, Salvadoran activists Salomon Alfaro Estrada and Rene Hernandez appeared on behalf of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). The pair is touring U.S. universities to inform American students about the Salvadoran political crisis...
...still an extraordinary painter, a lighthouse of vitality. Nobody could say Rivera kept a steady political line, but at least he was no ideologue; his socialism was instinctive and antitotalitarian, like Picasso's, but much deeper. Rivera gave Leon Trotsky asylum from Stalinist assassins (including the painter David Alfaro Siqueiros) in his own house at Coyoacan, but two years later Trotsky moved out, complaining that he no longer felt "moral solidarity" with Rivera's "anarchistic" views. In 1940 Rivera denounced Stalin as "the undertaker of the Revolution," the betrayer of Spain; by 1952 he was painting a saintly Uncle...