In 1934, two young artists drove from Los Angeles in a beat-up car to Mexico, to create a powerful artwork about repression.

Titled "The Struggle Against Terrorism," the 1,000-square-foot artwork suffered from neglect for 90 years. Now, conservators ...

The movement of Mexican muralists blended Western influences with traditional Mexican motifs of the pre-Columbian era and communicated with their audience through expressive and easy-to-interpret ...

The work at the Museo Regional Michoacano Dr Nicolás León Calderón was obscured behind a false wall for decades ...

Philip Guston painted a giant mural with artist Reuben Kadish in Mexico in 1934. It was unveiled after extensive restoration ...

Diego Rivera, born in 1886, was one of the leaders of the Mexican Mural Movement of the 1920s. A member of the Communist party, he created popular political murals throughout Mexico that often ...

The mural was seen as so revolutionary that it was covered by a false wall only to be rediscovered and exhumed in 1973.

While the Muralist movement emerged in the 1920s following the Mexican Revolution, its ideals continue to influence contemporary mural projects. The political and social messages contained in these ...