San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Homecoming of Diego Rivera’s Mural Not Going Quite as Planned

May 20, 2023July 28, 2023 The Guardsman Performing Arts and Education Center, Renée Bartlett-Webber, diego rivera mural, diego rivera, David Martin, Diego Rivera Theater, Pan American Unity, SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Vick Chung

They say history repeats itself. Diego Rivera completed a mural intended for a City College building that was never built, In 1941. Eighty years later, the mural was planned to be installed into the Performance Arts and Education Center which has still not been constructed.

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Professor Light Captures Darkness at the Border

September 27, 2020 The Guardsman University of California Berkeley, photography, Hasselblad, ken light, Mexico, Asylum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, JohnTaylor Wildfeuer, Melvin Wong, the guardsman, Midnight: La Frontera, city college, border patrol, immigration

Mothers handcuffed to their children, a full-grown man stuffed into a drainpipe, a family of three crammed together in the boot of a car. Under the cover of night they were found and detained by border patrol officers, their moments of fear and loss caught in the glow of Ken Light’s Hasselblad camera.

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Diego Rivera Mural Moving to SFMOMA

September 2, 2020September 7, 2020 The Guardsman COVID-19, mural, Eleni Balakrishnan, diego rivera, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, exhibition, Diego Rivera’s America, Will Maynez, Jill Lynch, Pan American Unity, PAEC, SFMOMA, Edgar Torres, coronavirus, Performing Arts Education Center

The “Pan American Unity” mural by Diego Rivera will be moved to SFMOMA for their new exhibition dedication to Rivera called “Diego Rivera’s America”. Rivera’s mural is remembered as a very historical piece of City College history.