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Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Mural

25/04/2015

Not the History Hour

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How the Mexican artist Diego Rivera captured the soul of Detroit, one mural at a time

How the Mexican artist Diego Rivera captured the soul of Detroit, one mural at a time.

We hear how the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera and his wife, the artist Frida Kahlo, captured the soul of Detroit when they turned the American city into their canvas in the early 1930s. And, we find out why the US Department of Defence plans to exhume the remains of sailors and Marines who died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Plus, Boston residents reflect on the Armenian massacre, one hundred years later.

Also, we head to the US-Mexico border and find a Chinese food scene like none other. We meet the backcountry cook who is a legend at California’s Yosemite National Park. And we learn about NASA’s musical wake-up calls for sleepy astronauts.

(Photo: Detail from Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry murals. Credit: Detroit Institute of Arts)

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