It is named after a Mexican artist whose work reflected the country's political and artistic history.
"I believe it's very important for any artist to know his own artistic history," he said in a recent telephone conversation.
In his spare time he would pick a period of artistic or literary history and master it.
I wanted to focus attention on America's cultural and artistic history.
Despite its artistic history, the 1931 landmark building appeared headed to becoming just another city parking lot.
It tackles a rich theme with a complex political, cultural and artistic history.
"Efros taught us to study the entire artistic history of a play, every bit, and then find something new," he said.
They're given medical histories of the birth parents, their cultural and ethnic backgrounds, intellectual, artistic, technical skills.
The movement destroyed much of the Christian church's early artistic history.
Other aspects of Muslim history - economic, military, scientific, artistic and the like - are almost entirely excluded.