News about Diego Rivera

Jeopardy! champion reveals 'deeply unfortunate' mistake that saw his opponent end the game show in LAST place - and with a NEGATIVE sum of money

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 23, 2024
While many contestants on the show are often lambasted for their poor performances , recent champion Nam Nguyen spoke out to defend one of his challengers, revealing that she was at a grave 'disadvantage' because of a simple error. Nam, a playwright from Ontario, came out on top in the Jeopardy! episode that aired on Monday, April 22, beating reigning champ Marko Saric, as well as challenger Elly Trickett (right). The first-time player took homeĀ $26,999 - even after getting the Final Jeopardy! answer wrong.

Frida Kahlo's dramas have eclipsed her art, prompting the opening of a new exhibit

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 3, 2023
Becoming Frida, a three-part BBC2 documentary, aims to demonstrate how important an artist Kahlo was, as well as the possibility that her husband, Diego Rivera, may have assisted her in suicide (right, her self-portrait with Diego). Becoming Frida, a BBC2 documentary that aims to show how important an artist Kahlo was, as well as the fact that her husband Diego Rivera may have aided her in suicide.

Chloe Sevigny transforms into a fashion icon C.Z. Guest for Season 2 Feud: Capote and the Women

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 2, 2023
On Thursday afternoon, Chlo Sevigny was seen on the Manhattan set of FX's Feud: Capote and the Women. To more accurately represent fashion icon C. Z., the Russian Doll actress, 48, wore a platinum-blonde wig, brilliant red lipstick, and a long blue coat tied at the waist. As she was 7 years old, she was a guest. Having been painted by Diego Rivera, Salvador Dale, Kenneth Paul Block, and Andy Warhol, the socialite (born Lucy Douglas Cochrane) was a muse to many.

Martin Mobarak, a NFT fanatic, is under scrutiny after a failed frida Kahlo drawing

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 9, 2022
In July, Martin Mobarak, a Mexican-Lebanese businessman based in Miami, set fire to a $10 million Frida Kahlo sketch as part of a bid to sell 10,000 NFTs of the drawing for $4,000 each. He has sold four so far for less than the asking price, according to the New York Times, and he is now facing criminal charges for burning a national treasure. He could be sentenced to ten years in prison and be compelled to pay the art work. In addition, if the sketch Mobarak burned was fake, he could be charged with fraud. When asked by The New York Times if the fire was accidental, Mobarak was noncommittal. 'I like to say that I don't regret it,' he said.

Truman Capote betrayed the'swans': he surrounded himself with glamorous socialites

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 22, 2022
As Famd's second series of Feud investigates Truman Capote's betrayal of the high-society women he surrounded himself with, FEMAIL examines his'swans,' including Jackie Kennedy's sister Lee Radziwill (right), actress and fashion muse C.Z Guest (centre) and Vogue editor Babe Paley (left). After the swans recognized themselves in his latest work of fiction, Answered Prayers, when an extract of the novel was published in Esquire magazine in 1975, Capote (inset) found himself barred from the New York social scene. After reading the extract, the women left Capote and became a social pariah until his death in 1984.