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...Website; Directions Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Tell us about your favourite building in Milan in the comments below....
...Codelco appointed Alejandro Sanhueza Díaz as chief financial officer on Monday after Alejandro Rivera resigned in October. Forum Energy appointed Leslie Beyer to its board of directors on Monday....
...strangest story of all is, perhaps, that of Juan O’Gorman, the architect/artist who built a pair of perfect modernist houses, clean and crisp, one for his father (an Irish immigrant), the other for Diego Rivera...
...If I mention that there are works here by Marinetti, Balla, Brancusi, Giacometti, Rivera, Indiana, Ruscha, Hockney, Christo, Vasarely, Judd and Gursky, I’d still only be scratching the surface....
...Cortés is a sinister, simpering presence in Diego Rivera’s great murals in the National Palace in Mexico City, where the viceroys ruled and López Obrador now holds court....
...Alejandro Díaz de León, Banxico governor, told lawmakers last week that the legislation would benefit just one bank which has recently had problems exporting dollars, and was “not a generalised problem”....
...Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who heads the centre-right-led government of the greater Madrid region, asked on Thursday. “Will the parish churches burn like in [19]36?”....
...Danilo and Natalia Diaz have come to show us the city’s best salsa spots and tactfully allay English nerves....
...But Albert Rivera, the head of the opposition Ciudadanos party, said on Friday that Mr Sánchez should call swift elections. “We are entering a period of political instability in Spain,” Mr Rivera said....
...Series about the lives of Jenni Rivera, a star of traditional Mexican music, the Cuban-American salsa queen Celia Cruz, and Juan Gabriel, the Mexican singer and songwriter, have all been hits....
...The other is Ciudadanos, a centrist party headed by Albert Rivera, a youthful Catalan lawyer....
...Selections by Vanessa Friedman … Junot Díaz, Author of ‘This is How You Lose Her’ (Faber) The most extraordinary (and harrowing) book I read this year was Oscar Martínez’s The Beast: Riding the Rails...
...Junot Díaz’s top 10 books: Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor by Tom Athanasiou; Family Installments: Memories of Growing Up Hispanic by Edward Rivera; From Protest to Challenge: A Documentary...
...This is How you Lose Her , by Junot Díaz, Faber, RRP£12.99 Díaz’s impressive collection of short stories charts the end of love from first doubts, through the dreamlike state of splitting up, to the regret...
...In addition to purely illustrative work, the likes of Daniel Vázquéz Díaz were submitting pencil portraits, such as the one on display of the composer Manuel de Falla, and landscapes such as Francisco Sancha...
...When Emiliano Zapata’s uprising, which began in November 1910, finally overthrew the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, Mexican artists were recruited en masse to serve the 20th century’s first successful socialist...
...Edwin Heathcote FT architecture critic ………………………………………….. Film Von Sternberg, by John Baxter, University Press of Kentucky RRP£25 The ego has landed....
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