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\n\tMexico City\u2019s Museo Anahuacalli is set to receive more than 150,000 objects from Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, the grandson of Diego Rivera, in a donation that significantly expands the museum\u2019s holdings and renews attention on the artist\u2019s original vision for the site.<\/p>\n
\n\tAs first reported by\u00a0The Art Newspaper<\/em>, the gift spans centuries, from 16th-century ceramics to textiles, photographs, wooden objects, prints, and archival material tied to Rivera and his circle. The works will be transferred in stages over the coming months, beginning with ceramics and followed by manuscripts and correspondence, with completion expected by the end of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tCoronel Rivera, a photographer and art historian, spent more than four decades assembling the collection. It brings together pre-Hispanic objects, family documents, and works from his own career, though it does not include paintings by Rivera or Frida Kahlo.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tSpeaking to the Art Newspaper<\/em>, Coronel Rivera said the collection had always been intended for a museum but that he had not expected it to end up at Anahuacalli. He added that he had not been closely involved with the trust established to oversee Rivera\u2019s museums and described the donation as something that \u201cwas meant to be.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe scale of the gift brings fresh focus to that structure. In 1955, Rivera created an irrevocable trust with Banco de M\u00e9xico to ensure that Museo Anahuacalli and the Museo Frida Kahlo, known as Casa Azul, would remain public institutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tRivera built Anahuacalli to house his collection of pre-Hispanic art in a volcanic-stone complex in southern Mexico City. He also imagined a broader cultural campus on the site, where artists trained in academies would work alongside artisans, drawing from a wide range of Mexican traditions.<\/p>\n \n\tMuseum officials say the new acquisition strengthens that direction. Teresa Moya, the museum\u2019s director, told\u00a0the Art Newspaper<\/em>\u00a0that the addition supports Anahuacalli\u2019s role as a center for research, conservation, and study.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe donation also creates new links between Anahuacalli and Casa Azul. Perla Labarthe \u00c1lvarez, director of the Kahlo museum, told\u00a0the Art Newspaper<\/em>\u00a0that the expanded holdings could lead to fresh interpretations across both collections, shaped by Rivera and Kahlo\u2019s shared approach to collecting.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe timing aligns with plans to expand the museum. Architect Mauricio Rocha, who led a recent extension, is developing proposals for new buildings to house the collection. Construction is expected to begin in late 2026 or 2027, though details remain preliminary.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe donation marks one of the largest additions to the museum in decades and gives new momentum to Rivera\u2019s long-standing idea of a cultural campus in the south of the city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/diego-rivera-grandson-donation-museo-anahuacalli-mexico-city-1234782182\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG6.jpg?w=960″] Mexico City\u2019s Museo Anahuacalli is set to receive more than 150,000 objects from Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, the grandson of Diego Rivera, in a donation that significantly expands the museum\u2019s holdings and renews attention on the artist\u2019s original vision for the site. As first reported by\u00a0The Art Newspaper, the gift spans centuries, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1897567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1897567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1897567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1897567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1897567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}