Art application varies and includes painting, metal and mica overlay, lamination, riveting, color tinting, and torch fired plique a jour enamel. All custom work is made to order. Some of the shades pictured here are very complicated and take over 40 hours to make.
Geraldo Rivera is a life-long Republican and a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) who thinks the civil rights organization has become a satellite of the Democratic Party.
Man at the Crossroads: Diego Rivera's Mural at Rockefeller Center, is a whodunit tale that also illustrates the tensions between art and politics. Exhibition co-curator Susana Pliego says the Rockefeller family was aware of Rivera's leftist politics when it commissioned the work.