Diego Rivera's posthumous autobiography claims that in 1904 he and his friends bought cadavers from a morgue and ate them, a story historians consider fabricated but perfectly on brand for a man who engineered his life to be provocative and unignorable. This episode explores the muralist's biography, beginning in Guanajuato in 1886, where the death of his twin brother Carlos was followed by a three-year-old drawing on every wall and parents who installed chalkboards to encourage him.

We follow him to Paris in 1907, where he embraced Cubism alongside Modigliani and learned the spatial geometry a mural needs to work as viewers walk past it. We return with him in 1921 to a Mexico rebuilding after revolution, where he painted his first mural with a pistol at his side, joined the Communist Party, and forged a Mexican visual language at Chapingo  ...