Good News From the Art World!

On Monday a monumental work of art will go on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  It is a 10-panel fresco created by Diego Rivera for the Golden Gate Exposition in 1940 and mostly hidden from view across town at City College of San Francisco since then.

It has taken four years, millions of dollars and the skill of engineers, architects, historians, and many others to move "Pan American Unity," all 30 tons, 74-foot-wide-by-22-foot-tall of it to SFMOMA, where it will stay until 2023, when it will be returned to the college.

Rivera's purpose in painting this mural was to depict a continent linked by creativity, a metaphoric bridge between the Mexican culture and the tech culture of the United States.  It is indeed monumental and worth the trouble to make it available to us all.

A Good News story from the Art World!