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demmiblue

(36,823 posts) Wed Mar 23, 2022, 08:05 AM Mar 2022

Shirley Woodson getting more well-deserved national attention!

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Shirley Woodson getting more well-deserved national attention! (Original Post) demmiblue Mar 2022 OP

I have to run down to the DIA and check it out. multigraincracker Mar 2022 #1

It's too bad she missed the Diego Rivera/Frida Kahlo exhibit from several years ago... demmiblue Mar 2022 #2

She loved all of Rivera paintings in the Courtyards multigraincracker Mar 2022 #3

multigraincracker

(32,641 posts)

1. I have to run down to the DIA and check it out.

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Wed Mar 23, 2022, 08:26 AM

Mar 2022

Haven't been down there in years. GF that moved here has never been and wants to go. She loves Diego Rivera, her last name is Rivera too.

demmiblue

(36,823 posts)

2. It's too bad she missed the Diego Rivera/Frida Kahlo exhibit from several years ago...

Reply to multigraincracker (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 23, 2022, 09:26 AM

Mar 2022

it was phenomenal!

I have been down there a couple times this year... always a pleasure!

Here is a cool link to The Detroit Industry murals/Rivera Court (360 degree view... definitely use full screen!):

https://www.360cities.net/image/rivera-court-from-end-detroit-institute-of-arts-usa-2

multigraincracker

(32,641 posts)

3. She loved all of Rivera paintings in the Courtyards

Reply to demmiblue (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 23, 2022, 09:37 AM

Mar 2022

of government buildings she saw in Mexico.
When I moved to Detroit 50 years ago, I was amazed at all of the folks on the West Side that had never been to the DIA.

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