Diego Rivera’s Anahuacalli
The Last Project of This Mexican Artist
Museum of the Month
By Lorena Ávila Jaimes
In this Museum of the Month, we will take you again to Coyoacán, Mexico City; to get to know one of the last works of Diego Rivera. In the beginning, he wanted to build a ranch alongside Frida Kahlo but instead decided on a cultural city.
One of his many great inspirations was Mexico’s past, as he was an avid collector of pre-Colombian pieces. He had almost 50 thousand!
This idea first started when he wanted to leave behind a cultural space where all of the arts could emerge. He wanted to display some of his collection to the public and as you can read once entering the building:
“I give back to the people, some of the artistic inheritance of their ancestors that I could rescue”. — Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera wanted to combine the prehispanic and the modern; with this museum, he was able to achieve it. There were many people in charge of this construction but the main one was Juan O’Gorman.
